The Criterion Channel, a list by AUWBOYZ

8.1

/72722/

78

/1292/

79

/1057/

4.2

/80528/

95

/88/

93

/869/

3.5

The cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely duo -- his meek wife and the mistress he brazenly flaunts. The women become increasingly unhinged by a series of odd occurrences after Delassalle's corpse mysteriously disappears.

83

7.6

/38550/

75

/1030/

76

/779/

3.9

/136374/

97

/60/

87

/670/

90

/9/

3.5

Dr. Génessier is riddled with guilt after an accident that he caused disfigures the face of his daughter, the once beautiful Christiane, who outsiders believe is dead. Dr. Génessier, along with accomplice and laboratory assistant Louise, kidnaps young women and brings them to the Génessier mansion. After rendering his victims unconscious, Dr. Génessier removes their faces and attempts to graft them on to Christiane's.

83

7.8

/149426/

75

/4043/

76

/2638/

3.9

/305402/

95

/82/

87

/6466/

89

/17/

3.5

age 17+

A ragtag group barricade themselves in an old Pennsylvania farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls ravaging the Northeast.

84

83

8.0

/15536/

77

/416/

77

/345/

4.1

/32862/

100

/16/

89

/126/

An alcoholic, abusive ne'er-do-well is shown the error of his ways through a legend that dooms the last person to die on New Year's Eve before the clock strikes twelve to take the reins of Death's chariot and work tirelessly collecting fresh souls for the next year.

82

7.8

/25182/

76

/619/

77

/456/

4.1

/84706/

90

/20/

90

/378/

While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever valuables they find. Both are devastated when they learn that Kichi has died, but his wife soon begins an affair with a neighbor who survived the war, Hachi. The mother disapproves and, when she can't steal Hachi for herself, tries to scare her daughter-in-law with a mysterious mask from a dead samurai.

82

7.9

/22464/

76

/523/

77

/433/

4.2

/50771/

91

/46/

89

/336/

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is saved by Yuki the Snow Maiden, but his rescue comes at a cost. Blind musician Hoichi is forced to perform for an audience of ghosts. An author relates the story of a samurai who sees another warrior's reflection in his teacup.

81

7.4

/48709/

71

/1190/

73

/1042/

3.8

/146829/

93

/71/

83

/988/

79

/19/

4.0

A real estate agent leaves behind his beautiful wife to go to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar.

83

81

8.0

/12576/

79

/355/

77

/255/

4.3

/43336/

89

/9/

90

/66/

In 1930s Prague, a Czech cremator who firmly believes cremation relieves one from earthly suffering is drawn inexorably to Nazism.

81

7.6

/44670/

75

/1610/

76

/1066/

4.1

/148405/

94

/78/

89

/1072/

79

/20/

Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by Dr. Kyohei Yamane soon discover something far more devastating than imagined in the form of a 50 meter tall monster whom the natives call Gojira. Now the monster begins a rampage that threatens to destroy not only Japan, but the rest of the world as well.

80

7.6

/18877/

74

/541/

76

/421/

4.0

/56073/

93

/29/

81

/287/

Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen's legendary film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that the witches of the Middle Ages suffered the same hysteria as turn-of-the-century psychiatric patients. But the film itself is far from serious-- instead it's a witches' brew of the scary, gross, and darkly humorous.

80

7.5

/35749/

76

/1647/

75

/711/

4.3

/299502/

94

/66/

85

/255/

70

/13/

A detective starts spiraling out of control when a wave of gruesome murders with seemingly similar bizarre circumstances is sweeping Tokyo.

79

7.5

/24601/

73

/488/

73

/530/

4.0

/57819/

92

/26/

86

/382/

3.0

While vacationing on a remote German island with his younger pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.

79

7.2

/54867/

72

/2219/

73

/1256/

4.0

/408710/

86

/43/

76

/414/

75

/10/

4.0

A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.

78

7.4

/22521/

71

/567/

72

/579/

3.8

/60902/

98

/46/

82

/441/

Allan Gray, a young man fascinated by the supernatural, goes to a small village where he feels a sinister force descending upon him. There, Allan meets an old man who asks him to protect his two daughters, for one of them has been bitten by a vampire.

78

7.2

/141490/

71

/3588/

73

/2661/

3.8

/493650/

87

/84/

82

/4766/

87

/15/

age 16+

First-time father Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.

81

77

7.7

/9742/

75

/272/

74

/223/

4.1

/29325/

96

/24/

85

/85/

In the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai returning from the war through that area are found mysteriously dead with their throats torn out. The governor calls in a wild and fierce young hero to quell what is evidently an Onryō ghost. He encounters the two beautiful women in an eerie, beautiful scene. After spiritual purification, he meets the demon in a thrilling fight.

77

7.2

/38715/

74

/1656/

73

/749/

4.0

/323575/

90

/42/

78

/564/

75

/12/

Hoping to find a sense of connection to her late mother, Gorgeous takes a trip with her friends to visit her aunt's ancestral house in the countryside. The girls soon discover that there is more to the old house than meets the eye.

77

7.2

/90155/

71

/2584/

70

/1465/

3.9

/158975/

94

/50/

77

/2196/

75

/22/

age 15+

FBI Agent Will Graham, who retired after catching Hannibal Lecktor, returns to duty to engage in a risky cat-and-mouse game with Lecktor to capture a new killer.

81

76

7.7

/10151/

72

/230/

75

/203/

3.8

/15617/

100

/12/

88

/174/

On the lam, criminal Alonzo hides in the circus as The Armless Wonder – a performer who uses his feet to hurl knives. Alonzo keeps the arms he really has concealed to hide his identity. Meanwhile, ringmaster's daughter Nanon has a phobia of being touched by men, but is romantically pursued by not only Alonzo but the strongman Malabar. Alonzo's desperation to remain with Nanon will only end in tragedy.

82

76

7.8

/11764/

74

/206/

75

/304/

3.9

/13991/

97

/32/

90

/146/

Remy Germain is a doctor in a French town who becomes the focus of a vicious smear campaign, as letters accusing him of having an affair and performing unlawful abortions are mailed to village leaders. The mysterious writer, who signs each letter as "Le Corbeau" (The Raven) soon targets the whole town, exposing everyone's dark secrets.

76

7.2

/58163/

71

/1438/

71

/966/

3.9

/123826/

86

/50/

82

/1056/

86

/15/

2.5

Elliot, a successful gynecologist, works at the same practice as his identical twin, Beverly. Elliot is attracted to many of his patients and has affairs with them. When he inevitably loses interest, he will give the woman over to Beverly, the meeker of the two, without the woman knowing the difference. Beverly falls hard for one of the patients, Claire, but when she inadvertently deceives him, he slips into a state of madness.

76

7.4

/213962/

73

/7314/

72

/4722/

3.7

/433824/

90

/42/

82

/6027/

71

/10/

A television reporter and cameraman follow emergency workers into a dark apartment building and are quickly locked inside with something terrifying.

75

6.8

/68003/

69

/1517/

69

/1209/

3.9

/163344/

72

/117/

75

/4265/

73

/25/

4.0

age 17+

When actress Nikki Grace gets the lead role in a cursed film, her world becomes more and more surreal, blending realities and ideas of infidelity, reincarnation, and supernatural forces.

75

7.6

/422292/

76

/12109/

76

/6953/

3.8

/512444/

84

/174/

77

/13100/

74

/29/

2.5

age 14+

Grace is a religious woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is haunted, Grace fights to protect her children at any cost in the face of strange events and disturbing visions.

74

7.0

/30778/

69

/793/

69

/519/

3.8

/88827/

87

/67/

73

/741/

Mary Henry ends up the sole survivor of a fatal car accident through mysterious circumstances. Trying to put the incident behind her, she moves to Utah and takes a job as a church organist. But her fresh start is interrupted by visions of a fiendish man. As the visions begin to occur more frequently, Mary finds herself drawn to the deserted carnival on the outskirts of town. The strangely alluring carnival may hold the secret to her tragic past.

75

74

7.4

/12292/

73

/396/

72

/320/

3.8

/14724/

70

/10/

86

/271/

A naïve young tax collector for the imperial government winds up spending the night in a haunted temple. There he falls in love with a beautiful woman who, unfortunately, is dead. With the aid of a powerful Daoist Swordsman, he must defeat undead hordes, overcome a sinister Tree Demoness, and descend to the pits of hell, to fight for the spirit he loves.

74

7.5

/94926/

73

/2735/

73

/1990/

3.9

/331473/

73

/40/

83

/1793/

69

/10/

Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.

74

6.9

/39140/

70

/2208/

68

/1099/

3.7

/88686/

92

/153/

77

/109/

74

/32/

3.0

A college student starts to experience extreme seizures. She soon learns that the violent episodes are a symptom of inexplicable abilities.

74

73

7.1

/15275/

68

/377/

69

/298/

3.4

/23847/

100

/25/

73

/264/

When legendary hunter Bob Rainsford is shipwrecked on the perilous reefs surrounding a mysterious island, he finds himself the guest of the reclusive and eccentric Count Zaroff. While he is very gracious at first, Zaroff eventually forces Rainsford and two other shipwreck survivors, brother and sister Eve and Martin Towbridge, to participate in a sadistic game of cat and mouse in which they are the prey and he is the hunter.

78

73

7.2

/6527/

72

/217/

71

/186/

3.8

/24098/

100

/5/

78

/58/

A piano composer's family moves into a new house; when his pregnant wife collapses from working to support the family, he hires a housemaid to help with housework.

73

7.2

/161263/

73

/6275/

72

/3313/

3.8

/305531/

86

/76/

80

/3245/

55

/22/

age 16+

A lone drifter stumbles upon a unique pair of sunglasses that reveal aliens are systematically gaining control of the Earth by masquerading as humans and lulling the public into submission.

71

6.4

/3791/

61

/222/

68

/84/

3.5

/52548/

93

/102/

56

/23/

76

/25/

3.5

Ryōsuke Yoshii, an ordinary reseller, carelessly earns grudges by people and becomes entangled in a life-threatening struggle.

74

72

7.1

/10670/

71

/323/

68

/217/

3.6

/29058/

95

/22/

71

/94/

A 17th-century witch returns to wreak havoc in the life of a descendant of the Puritan witch hunter who burned her, but runs afoul of her father when she discovers that her mischief might have found her true love.

71

6.8

/71012/

67

/2980/

70

/1541/

3.7

/1025041/

82

/293/

63

/126/

74

/54/

3.0

age 16+

Abandoned by her father, a young woman embarks on a thousand-mile odyssey through the backroads of America where she meets a disenfranchised drifter. But despite their best efforts, all roads lead back to their terrifying pasts and to a final stand that will determine whether their love can survive their otherness.

71

6.7

/35948/

67

/1254/

66

/726/

3.4

/75772/

88

/59/

69

/1026/

70

/12/

3.0

Faced with his own mortality, an ingenious alchemist tried to perfect an invention that would provide him with the key to eternal life. It was called the Cronos device. When he died more than 400 years later, he took the secrets of this remarkable device to the grave with him. Now, an elderly antiques dealer has found the hellish machine hidden in a statue and learns about its incredible powers. The more he uses the device, the younger he becomes...but nothing comes without a price. Life after death is just the beginning as this nerve-shattering thriller unfolds and the fountain of youth turns bloody.

71

7.3

/117153/

75

/3628/

74

/2160/

4.3

/392861/

66

/82/

78

/2157/

45

/29/

In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. The killer is never apprehended, and, after experiencing dark visions and supernatural encounters, Agent Dale Cooper chillingly predicts that the culprit will claim another life. Meanwhile, in the more cozy town of Twin Peaks, hedonistic beauty Laura Palmer hangs with lowlifes and seems destined for a grisly fate.

71

6.8

/23172/

67

/473/

66

/428/

3.6

/57219/

86

/50/

71

/380/

70

/16/

3.0

Inquisitive journalist Grace Collier is horrified when she witnesses her neighbor, fashion model Danielle Breton, violently murder a man. Panicking, she calls the police. But when the detective arrives at the scene and finds nothing amiss, Grace is forced to take matters into her own hands. Her first move is to recruit private investigator Joseph Larch, who helps her to uncover a secret about Danielle's past that has them both seeing double.

71

6.6

/43918/

67

/1031/

65

/681/

3.6

/121188/

70

/71/

75

/1789/

58

/18/

4.0

A socially awkward veterinary assistant with a lazy eye and obsession with perfection descends into depravity after developing a crush on a boy with perfect hands.

71

7.1

/55638/

70

/1806/

69

/913/

3.8

/209115/

71

/45/

76

/1588/

65

/9/

As the residents of the Pi Kappa Sigma sorority house prepare for the festive season, a stranger begins to harass them with a series of obscene phone calls.

70

6.6

/8946/

62

/507/

63

/356/

3.3

/37769/

96

/97/

59

/62/

79

/14/

3.0

Accused of the genocide of Mayan people, retired general Enrique is trapped in his mansion by massive protests. Abandoned by his staff, the indignant old man and his family must face the devastating truth of his actions and the growing sense that a wrathful supernatural force is targeting them for his crimes.

73

70

6.9

/12159/

66

/252/

67

/206/

3.6

/14806/

78

/18/

79

/171/

85

/5/

A Sydney lawyer defends five Aboriginal people in a ritualised taboo murder and in the process learns disturbing truths about himself and premonitions.

69

6.5

/5936/

65

/140/

60

/121/

3.5

/11488/

86

/14/

66

/57/

3.0

A traveller by the name of Crossley forces himself upon a musician and his wife in a lonely part of Devon, and uses the aboriginal magic he has learned to displace his host.

70

69

6.5

/8126/

65

/345/

74

/282/

3.5

/27611/

75

/12/

73

/278/

After the previous Godzilla attack, a miniature arms race ensues to collect his cells. Concerned over Godzilla's possible return, the Japanese government uses the cells to create a new bio-weapon, ANEB (Anti-Nuclear Energy Bacteria). They seeks the aid of geneticist Genshiro Shiragami, who's experiments result in a new mutation.

69

6.9

/146025/

71

/6300/

69

/2857/

3.3

/166844/

78

/37/

66

/1898/

When Jess sets sail on a yacht with a group of friends, she cannot shake the feeling that there is something wrong.

68

6.8

/9809/

67

/254/

64

/144/

3.5

/19301/

85

/20/

71

/240/

69

/15/

2.0

A prudish married couple feel put upon by the swingers living in their apartment building. One night, by accident, they discover a way to both rid themselves of the “perverts” down the hall and simultaneously realize their dream of opening a restaurant.

68

6.2

/10958/

62

/619/

61

/277/

3.3

/46912/

89

/81/

71

/42/

72

/19/

2.5

Two mermaid sisters, who end up performing at a nightclub, face cruel and bloody choices when one of them falls in love with a beautiful young man.

66

7.0

/19958/

64

/477/

65

/467/

3.2

/37000/