Subgenre Sampler
Cult: 1355 Films to Buy & Rent
- Bubba Ho-Tep (2004)
- Dir. Don Coscarelli
Feat. Bruce Campbell, Ossie Davis
- Strangely brilliant horror–satire with an outlandish plot where Elvis Presley (living but aging and impotent) fights the evil of a reincarnated…
- Drawn Together (TV Series) (2004)
- Twisted parody of BIG BROTHER and its ilk with cartoon characters living under one roof and the camera's constant scrutiny.
Parodying reality…
- Endless Serenade (2004)
- Graphic animated sex punctuates this 'hentai' anime about a love–triangle which develops out of two unrequited office romances. The makers of…
- Gankutsuou (TV Series) (Count of Monte Cristo, The) (2004)
- Born into an aristocratic family in Paris, Albert sets out on a journey with his best friend, Franz, to escape his privileged yet dull life. They…
- Hair High (2004)
- Dir. Bill Plympton
Feat. Keith Carradine, Sarah Silverman, Dermot Mulroney
- Cult animator Bill Plympton (THE TUNE) gives high school a manic makeover in this teen melodrama of prom night rivalry that expands in various,…
- Helter Skelter (2004)
- Dir. John Gray
Feat. Jeremy Davies, Clea Duvall
- A grimly rewarding TV docudrama about murderous hipster Charles Manson, played with screwy–eyed, whisper–voiced veracity by Jeremy…
- I Love You (2004)
- Sexually explicit 'anime' set on a Japanese campus where a handsome lad must choose between the charms of three female students, by sampling their…
- Incident At Loch Ness (2004)
- Dir. Zak Penn
Feat. Werner Herzog
- Droll and rather odd filmbiz comedy follows the efforts of German auteur Werner Herzog (GRIZZLY MAN) and an inept Hollywood producer, Zak Penn, to…
- Keane (2004)
- Dir. Lodge Kerrigan
Feat. Damian Lewis, Abigail Breslin, Amy Ryan
- A powerful and unnerving feat of ‘mental’ endurance, dir. Kerrigan’s follow–up to the equally unsettling CLEAN, SHAVEN plunges the viewer…
- Mind Game (2004)
- Dir. Masaaki Yuasa
Feat. Koji Imada, Sayaka Maeda, Takashi Fujii
- Inventive Japanese animation based on the manga of the same by Robin Nishi, depicting the psychedelic self–discovery of a socially inept…