I got to see this on the big screen. Love this movie.

Oh, I liked this movie! Very surreal and inventive, though it reminded me a little of Sweeney Todd, but the film was rumored to be an interpretation of The Delicate Delinquent (1957).

Yes, and A Clockwork Orange is an interpretation of The Nutty Professor.

Seen most on your list, Andy. Yep, they are good and definitely worth mentioning.

It was rumored to be a surrealistic interpretation, which loosely translates to unlikely.

I don't know if you heard, but it's rumored there is a remake in the works for Savage Planet.


I prefer Allegro Non Troppo over Fantasia.

Non si sevizia un paperino (1972)



Spaghetti nightmare specialist Lucio Fulci enters the fray with this lurid entry that ducks away (couldn’t resist) from the usual formula. In Duckling, the bodies of children are turning up in a rural village and a reporter attempts to uncover the culprit. The intriguing plot with red herrings aplenty has a touch of witchcraft, Barbara Bouchet in the buff and a few very shocking sequences; easily securing its placement in my top ten. It’s not as visually graceful as some of its peers; however, it remains one of Fulci’s most articulate and entertaining films. The narrative tackles bigger issues than just the surface spectacle of child murder, masking comments on both society and religion, making it very controversial upon initial release.

I corpi presentano tracce di violenza carnale (1973)



Sergio Martino brandishes his formidable “chops” yet again. A group of promiscuous coeds retreat to a remote country villa to escape a series of sexually charged murders on campus. Soon the unsuspecting girls lose both their inhibitions and their lives. Martino keeps a firm grip on things while never getting too graphic or lecherous. There is plenty of sex and violence to go round, don’t get me wrong, but tension and atmosphere play an equal role in this well measured offering.

La casa dalle finestre che ridono (1976)



A painter restoring a fresco in an old church becomes obsessed with finding out what really happened to the original artist and what inspired his uncanny visions. Prolific director Pupi Avati succeeds here in crafting an exceptional mystery without succumbing to the usual exploitative rudiments of his fellow paisans. Deliberately paced, but chock full of tense, creepy moments and an unsettling vibe that makes this selection anything but laughable.

L'uccello dalle piume di cristallo (1970)



Enter the Dario. Bava might have cleared the path, but it was Argento who constructed the cornerstone of the Giallo proper. His debut feature lacks much of the flash and visual poetry of his later features; however, Argento proves he can create a suspenseful atmosphere alongside the best. He takes liberal queues from both Hitchcock and Bava, but infuses them with his own sense of the macabre to make a solid whodunit with marginal plot holes. An exceptional Ennio Morricone score adds further luster to this very reputable affair. The maestro quickly dominated and influenced the entire genre before moving on into the fantastic with Suspiria.

Profondo rosso (1975)



Dario Argento’s unquestionably brilliant magnum opus in the field. Everything about this Giallo is as it should be. It is intelligent, imaginative, suspenseful, shocking and well conceived. Argento’s direction deftly weaves a mystery not only through the complexities and structure of the script, but through his use of the camera, lighting and score as well. With every step questions are raised in a literal and visual sense and the response is further deception. Goblin’s pulsative score is in fact integral to the movements of the film, quite literally making Deep Red a true opera of bloodshed; a dance of death; a masterpiece in the genre.

Hmmm...ur definition of giallo scares me a bit.

Last Night is a Canadian film I love. Not sure that counts as a foreign film though. It is about the end of the world and how people are reacting to the inevitable. It came out in 1999, which is significant. People were scared because of 2000 and what might happen. So it was kind of intense to see it in the theater at that time...or at least pretend it was. ;p

Love Night on Earth too. Guess it's not really foreign either, though it has vignettes that take place in Paris, Rome, and Helsinki.

Off the top of my head I can think of these greats:)

M,Cinema Paradiso, Metropolis, Nosferatu, and The Red Balloon

Poison For The Fairies '84 aka Veneno para las hadas (Mexico)

(From IMdB): Mexico City circa 1965: Fabiola is an aristocratic little girl, who is very lonely and bored. At school she meets and befriends a strange and beautiful girl named Graciela, who dreams of becoming a witch. Their games get increasingly sadistic and macabre, and escalate to involve the bloody murder of a piano teacher and macabre mayhem.

Stalker '79 aka Сталкер (Russia)

(From IMdB): Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, an alien place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers. Over his wife's numerous objections, a man rises in the dead of night: he's a stalker, one of a handful who have the mental gifts (and who risk imprisonment) to lead people into the Zone to the Room, a place where one's secret hopes come true. That night, he takes two people into the Zone: a popular writer who is burned out, cynical, and questioning his genius; and a quiet scientist more concerned about his knapsack than the journey. In the deserted Zone, the approach to the Room must be indirect. As they draw near, the rules seem to change and the stalker faces a crisis.

The Quiet Earth '85 (New Zealand)

(From IMdB): A man wakes up to find himself literally alone in the world, and goes about trying to find other survivors, as well as to find out what happened. He suspects that a government research project he was involved in had something to do with the disappearance of everyone. Eventually he finds several other people, and once they begin to trust each other they try to figure out why they were left on earth.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdHoYtBzdX0

Beowulf and Grendle, Canadian movie about the legend of Beowulf. This one was WAY better than the one with Angelina Jolie. It never seen screen play in the states.


Das Boot. My German teacher made us translate this one on the fly. Puts life in a submarine during war time into perspective.


Metamorphosis. They actually made a movie of the book in Germany complete with a huge cockroach.

Old and New Dr. Who! English! It's Dr. Who! need I explain?

Red Dwarf. More BBC comedy. A ship is lost for 1,000,000,000. One crew man had been in stasis all that time. When he comes out of stasis he finds the guy he hated and caused the accident on the ship that killed the rest of the crew is not a hologram to keep him company, the ship's computer is crazy, and the cat he smuggled on the ship (which is what got him thrown into a stasis locker) had kittens and they evolved into intelligent life and one of them was on the ship still. This show was just nuts!

Black Moon '75 (France)

A very surreal mix of fantasy and scifi. A critic described it best "An apocalyptic Alice In Wonderland"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chpWALYbIcY

Week End '67 (France)

(From IMdB) A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations.

My favorite Jean-Luc Godard film.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANAYphr4U-0

The Inglorious Bastards '78 aka Quel maledetto treno blindato (Italy)

The movie that inspired Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds. Great action movie in the same vein as The Dirty Dozen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Lgd73_kYS4