Anywhere But Hollywood – Unusual Movies for Unusual People

Basket Case

October 25, 2026

A young man checks into a flophouse hotel near Times Square carrying a wicker basket, and he will not let anyone look inside. What lives…

Meatballs 4: To the Rescue

October 25, 2026

The completist in me had to do it. It didn’t start off as a Meatballs movie. It began as a comedy-drama called Happy Campers and…

Habit

October 24, 2026

A man falls into an affair that leaves him weaker every morning, and he keeps coming back for more. HABIT (1995) follows Sam, a part-time…

Kung Fu Hustle

October 24, 2026

A cheap slum apartment complex hides two of the deadliest martial artists alive, disguised as a nagging landlady in curlers and her landlord husband. KUNG…

Stalker

October 23, 2026

By the commonly told story, the first attempt at STALKER was lost in a Mosfilm lab: footage shot on faulty stock was ruined, the original…

Roadgames

October 23, 2026

A truck driver crosses the Australian outback with only a dingo for company, making up stories about the cars he passes to stay sane. Then…

The Music Teacher

October 22, 2026

A celebrated baritone walks away from the stage at the height of his powers, retreats to a country estate, and pours everything he has left…

Alice, Sweet Alice

October 22, 2026

A figure in a yellow raincoat and a translucent mask strangles a young girl in a church during her first communion. ALICE, SWEET ALICE (1976)…

The Man Who Fell to Earth

October 21, 2026

By his own later account, a rock star who had barely eaten or slept for months, living on cocaine and milk, walked onto a film…

The Innocents

October 21, 2026

A governess arrives at a country estate to care for two orphaned children, and almost immediately begins to wonder whether the house is haunted, or…

Withnail & I

October 20, 2026

Two unemployed actors, a flat full of unwashed dishes, and a holiday to the countryside that solves nothing. The trip was meant to be a…

Vampyr

October 20, 2026

Its star was a wealthy baron who financed the production in exchange for the lead role. In VAMPYR (1932), baron Nicolas de Gunzburg, acting under…

Tampopo

October 19, 2026

A dying woman gets out of bed to cook one last meal for her family, and her husband makes them eat it. A gangster passes…

The Pit and the Pendulum

October 19, 2026

A visiting brother comes looking for answers about his sister’s death and instead finds a castle full of torture devices, a husband unraveling before his…

Ballad of a Soldier

October 18, 2026

A young soldier is offered a medal for an act of bravery against enemy tanks. He asks for something else instead: a few days’ leave…