Anywhere But Hollywood – Page 9 – Unusual Movies for Unusual People

Map of the Human Heart

July 27, 2026

He was hired to make the third Alien film. His vision was a planet made of wood: a monastery in space and an order of…

The Monster That Challenged the World

July 26, 2026

It had one of the grandest titles in science fiction history. Its monster turned out to be a giant snail. THE MONSTER THAT CHALLENGED THE…

Within the Woods

July 25, 2026

Two years before The Evil Dead (1981), Sam Raimi shot a 32-minute horror film over one weekend for $1,600. The plan: make something scary enough…

Nice Girls Don’t Explode

July 24, 2026

She deliberately chose roles in movies she expected to fail, so she’d never have to be famous. Despite this, she won a Tony and an…

The Return

July 23, 2026

This “Odyssey” came out in 2024, starred two Oscar nominees (one winner), and played to near-empty theaters despite critical acclaim. While Iphigenia (1977) gave us…

Hatching

July 22, 2026

She runs a family blog. Every post shows the perfect home, the perfect marriage, the perfect daughter. Her followers do not see that her twelve-year-old…

The Love Witch

July 21, 2026

In Obsession (2026), a hopeless young man casts a love spell on a woman and it threatens to destroy them both. 10 years ago, one…

The Road Home

July 20, 2026

One year before Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2000), 19-year-old dance student Zhang Ziyi made her theatrical film debut for the most acclaimed director in China.…

Krakatit

July 19, 2026

The novel, about an explosive force powerful enough to destroy the world, was written in 1922. The film was made in 1948, after World War…

Iphigenia

July 18, 2026

In The Odyssey, Odysseus spends ten years trying to get home from Troy. In 1977, a Greek director filmed the part of the story Hollywood…

Lady Snowblood

July 17, 2026

A broken woman serves life in a Meiji-era prison. The men who destroyed her and her family are still out there. She gives birth on…

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

July 16, 2026

With the Screen Actors Guild threatening to strike, a British newspaper introduced cinema’s newest leading lady as “tall, attractive, and guaranteed not to strike.” Four…

The Valley

July 15, 2026

For over fifty years, Pink Floyd fans have loved OBSCURED BY CLOUDS, the warm, hypnotic record that arrived just before DARK SIDE OF THE MOON.…

Hell’s Belles

July 14, 2026

The film treats biker girl Cathy as a commodity. The actress who played her became a princess. HELL’S BELLES (1969) is an American International Pictures…

Frankenstein: The True Story

July 13, 2026

It was written by Christopher Isherwood, whose Berlin stories became CABARET, working with Don Bachardy, the man he shared his life with. Like the Berlin…