May 20th, 2013 09:16 a.m.
Metro Bizarro
Metro Bizarro is a monthly foray into the weird, wacky and wonderful world of fringe cinema. Each month, we explore the twisted underbelly of Hollywood and beyond, screening filmic gems that literally need to be seen to be believed. Trippy gunfighter sagas, psychotronic rock operas, dystopian road odysseys - all of these and much more will be making an appearance. Curated by Maggie Hardy.
Director: Nicolas Roeg
UK
1976,
139 min,
Digital
Coming to Earth from his dying home planet, Thomas (David Bowie) is soon caught up in the human lifestyle of crass consumption and fixation on image. In an attempt to gather the water his home desperately needs, he starts a...
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Director: William Crain
USA
1972,
93 min,
Digital
In the days before his reign as “The King of Cartoons”, William Marshall brought his soulful voice to bear in one the definitive works of the “blaxploitation” genre, Blacula. … In 1780, after visiting Count Dracula, Manuwalde is turned into...
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Director: David Cronenberg
Canada
1983,
87 min,
Digital
Long live the new flesh! There’s nothing interesting on TV anymore and Max Renn (James Woods) has decided to do something about it. In his search for new programming he comes across a show called “Videodrome”, the likes of which...
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Director: Katsushiro Otomo
Japan
1988,
125 min,
Digital
Neo Tokyo, 2019: Two best friends, Kaneda (Mitsuo Iwata) and Tetsuo (Nozomu Sasaki) are the leaders of the Capsule motorcycle gang, battling for control over the neon-soaked city streets. When the pair come into contact with a decommissioned military experiment,...
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Director: Richard Bates Jr.
USA
2012,
81 min,
Digital
Life is hard when you’re strange and Pauline (AnnaLynne McCord) knows that better than most. She’s plagued with weird and violent fantasies, overbearing parents and a fascination for D.I.Y. surgery. _Excision_ was the festival darling of the summer and has...
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Director: Chris Windsor
Canada
1982,
82 min,
Digital
“Pleased to meet you, meat to please you!” Bob Sanders owns the perfect little butcher shop in the perfect little town of Burquitlam until one day he takes on an apprentice: Abdulla (Edmontonian jazz legend Clarence “Big” Miller), a very...
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Director: Philippe Mora
Australia
1976,
102 min,
Digital
This month Metro Bizarro brings you a taste of the wild outback with _Mad Dog Morgan_. Dennis Hopper stars as Dan Morgan, the infamous real-life 1800’s outlaw, an Irish immigrant working as a gold digger in the treacherous Australian brush....
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Director: Herschell Gordon Lewis
USA
1963,
67 min,
Digital
WATCH as nubile young flesh is dismembered to raise a sleeping goddess! THRILL as a homicidal maniac prepares his profane blood feast! SHUDDER as the final cannibal meal is served! This month Metro Bizarro is proud to present a cinematic...
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Director: John Holbrook
Canada
1974,
87 min,
Digital
“I vant to suck your...” Metro Bizarro is proud to present in partnership with REAL Boogie Nights presents Return to Porno Chic - the one, the only, _Sexcula_! The only adult film made in Canada during porno’s golden age _Sexcula_...
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