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The Asthenic Syndrome (1989)

Plot Summary: A two-part Soviet film examining societal apathy through a grieving widow unable to move past her husband's death and a high school teacher suffering from narcoleptic sleeping spells. Director: Kira Muratova Producer: Boris Zhavoronkov Screenplay: Kira Muratova, Sergei Popov, Aleksandr Chernykh Starring: Olga Antonova as Natasha Sergei Popov as Nikolai Alekseevich Galina Zakhurdayeva as Masha Natalia Buzko as Masha's Friend Aleksandra Svenskaya as Teacher Music: Oleg Karavaichuk Cinematography: Vladimir Pankov Editing: Valentina Oleynik HOT DEAL 🎬 Get The Movie Now ↗ *Live prices & availability verified on Amazon ⚠️ SPOILER ALERT ⚠️ A Film Within a Film: Black & White Grief Meets Color Madness KRASNAYA: W...

The Church (1989)

The Church, also known as Cathedral of Demons or Demon Cathedral, is a 1989 Italian horror film directed by Michele Soavi. It was produced by Dario Argento with Mario Cecchi Gori and Vittorio Cecchi Gori, and written by Argento, Soavi, Franco Ferrini, Dardano Sacchetti, Lamberto and Fabrizio Bava. It stars Hugh Quarshie, Tomas Arana, Barbara Cupisti, Asia Argento, Feodor Chaliapin, Jr. and Giovanni Lombardo Radice. source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Church_(film) A church is built during medieval times on top of a pile of dead bodies that were considered possessed. Hundreds of years later a young librarian unleashes the evil within, by removing a rock in the catacombs. Series of events occur meanwhile, everybody just does not seem to be the same. Father Gus is the only one not possessed, he must save the city from becoming a pandemonium, he must find the ancient secret of the church so it can crumble to pieces. source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094860/ ...

Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)

Tetsuo: The Iron Man is a 1989 Japanese cyberpunk film by cult-film director Shinya Tsukamoto produced by Japan Home Video. This, his third film, is an extremely graphic but also strikingly-filmed fantasy shot in the same low-budget, underground-production style as his first two films. Tetsuo established Tsukamoto internationally and created his worldwide cult following. It was followed by Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (1992) and Tetsuo: The Bullet Man (2009). source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetsuo:_The_Iron_Man A strange man known only as the "metal fetishist", who seems to have an insane compulsion to stick scrap metal into his body, is hit and possibly killed by a Japanese "salaryman", out for a drive with his girlfriend. The salaryman then notices that he is being slowly overtaken by some kind of disease that is turning his body into scrap metal, and that his nemesis is not in fact dead but is somehow masterminding and guiding his rage and frustration-...