Starring: Doug McClure, Ann Turkel, Vic Morrow

A raunchy, gory thrill ride where slimy beasts and gratuitous T&A fill the screen from start to finish. Basically a Corman remake of his own PIRANHA but with monster suits, HUMANOIDS has sleazy fun value — with a slam-bang climax featuring an entire town trashed by marauding fishfolk.

Featuring beloved genre stalwarts Vic Morrow and Doug McClure, and with SFX from Rob Bottin (THE THING) and Chris Walas (THE FLY), seeing is believing as the salmon are definitely coming home to spawn!

Starring: Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Finn Carter, Michael Gross, Reba McEntire

Repairmen Val McKee (Kevin Bacon) and Earl Bassett (Fred Ward) are tired of their dull lives in the small desert town of Perfection, Nev. But just as the two try to skip town, they happen upon a series of mysterious deaths and a concerned seismologist (Finn Carter) studying unnatural readings below the ground. With the help of an eccentric couple (Reba McEntire, Michael Gross), the group fights for survival against giant, worm-like monsters hungry for human flesh.

Starring: Kevin Costner, Sean Young, Gene Hackman

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Sparks immediately fly when the ambitious Lt. Tom Farrell (Kevin Costner) meets the vivacious Susan Atwell (Sean Young) at a ritzy D.C. party. He’s so enamored with her, learning that she’s the mistress of his new boss doesn’t deter him from their passionate attachment. When she is found dead, Farrell is asked to lead the murder investigation, and must figure out how to erase their connection. Sometimes nonsensical and tinged with surprises, No Way Out shows the captivating presence of Sean Young and includes a limo scene that will make you blush.

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Starring: Tom Cruise, Robert Duvall, Nicole Kidman, Randy Quaid, Michael Rooker, Cary Elwes

In the fast-paced world of NASCAR, a rivalry brews between rookie hotshot Cole Trickle (Tom Cruise) and veteran racer Rowdy Burns (Michael Rooker). When both of them are seriously injured in competition, the former bitter rivals become close friends. With Cole’s spirits restored by a romance with neurosurgeon Dr. Claire Lewicki (Nicole Kidman), and Rowdy still sidelined by injuries, Cole decides to race Rowdy’s car in the Daytona 500 against underhanded newcomer Russ Wheeler (Cary Elwes).

Starring: Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, José Lewgoy

Opera-loving European Brian Fitzgerald (Klaus Kinski) lives in a small Peruvian city. Better known as Fitzcarraldo, this foreigner is obsessed with building an opera house in his town and decides that to make his dream a reality he needs to make a killing in the rubber business. In order to become a successful rubber baron, Fitzcarraldo hatches an elaborate plan that calls for a particularly impressive feat — bringing a massive boat over a mountain with the help of a band of natives.

Starring: Bruno S., Eva Mattes, Clemens Scheitz

Bruno Stroszek (Bruno S.), a hapless busker in Berlin, falls for a prostitute (Eva Mattes) who’s in trouble with local thugs. With nothing to lose, the new couple decide to emigrate to the United States with their neighbor Scheitz (Clemens Scheitz), whose American nephew lives in rural Wisconsin. But after a customs agent confiscates his cherished pet bird, Beo, Stroszek begins a downward spiral into culture shock and surreality as he experiences the dark underbelly of the American dream.

Starring: Klaus Kinski, Ruy Guerra, Helena Rojo, Cecilia Rivera

Don Lope de Aguirre (Klaus Kinski), a ruthless Spanish conquistador, vies for power while part of an expedition in Peru to find El Dorado, the mythical seven cities of gold. Accompanied by his daughter, Flores (Cecilia Rivera), Aguirre faces off against his superior, Don Pedro de Ursua (Ruy Guerra), and grows increasingly volatile after seizing control of the group. As Aguirre presses deeper into the Amazonian jungle, he descends further into madness.

Starring: Kristyna Kohoutova

In Czech director Jan Svankmajer’s surreal adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s classic children’s book, Alice (Kristyna Kohoutova) follows her stuffed rabbit through a portal inside her dresser to be whisked away to Wonderland. While the White Rabbit, Mad Hatter and Cheshire Cat are still present, the familiar magical world and bizarre characters have undergone an unsettling transformation in the director’s vision through the stop-motion animation of dead animals, puppets and other assorted objects.

Starring: Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, John Turturro, Spike Lee

We begin our journey through Spike Lee’s New York in Bed-Stuy, with his most well known and well regarded film, DO THE RIGHT THING.

Inspired by a heat-fueled episode of ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS, as well as the racially motivated attack of Michael Griffith in Howard Beach, and the murder of Eleanor Bumpurs at the hands of the police, Spike’s Oscar nominated screenplay blends a larger than life theatrical sensibility with the many harsh systemic realities that continue to torment Black Americans everyday. The film possesses the unique ability to incite anger, laughter, sadness, and the constant feeling of sweltering heat all in swift succession during its two hour runtime.

DO THE RIGHT THING also features incredible performances across the board from many of Spike’s classic repertory of players, along with reliably distinct work from cinematographer Ernest Dickerson, and one of the most iconic opening credits sequences in modern cinematic history. This classic film and its influence will always be felt, and forever stitched into the fabric of Black culture.

Starring: Ed Norton, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Pepper, Rosario Dawson, Anna Paquin, Brian Cox

Ten years after MALCOLM X, and only one year after 9/11, Spike Lee brings us back to Manhattan for an adaptation of David Benioff’s novel 25th HOUR.

One of the few Spike films with a majority White cast, 25th HOUR tells the story of Monty Brogan (played with sharpness and ferocity by Edward Norton) in his last 24 hours before he begins a seven year prison sentence for dealing drugs. Surrounded by his two best friends (played by Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Barry Pepper, both giving us excellent work as always), and his girlfriend (Rosario Dawson, in her second Spike Lee performance), Monty takes his last 24 to contemplate his life choices, and tries to figure out if someone in his inner circle ratted on him.

25th HOUR takes Spike into new territory, mostly working with a different crew behind the scenes, with a screenplay he did not write. These differences give the film a sense of individuality within his filmography, even though many of his typical directorial flairs are left intact. The grief that Lee felt for his city after the September 11th attacks can be felt throughout the film, and his insistence on including the tragedy within the story makes the work all the more poignant.