Backed by Guillermo del Toro and yet made by a surprisingly inexperienced group of film makers (especially considering the end result), The Orphanage is a chilling, tense supernatural thriller that could certainly teach more established directors a thing or two about how to send shivers down the spine. It tells the story of a woman, Laura, returning to the orphanage where she was ...

Manufacturer: Optimum Home Entertainment
Starring: Belen Rueda, Geraldine Chaplin, Fernando Cayo
Directed By: Juan Antonio Bayona

Manufacturer: Tla Releasing
Starring: Kristoffer Joner, Cecilie A. Mosli, Julia Schacht, Anna Bache-Wiig, Michael Nyqvist
Directed By: Pål Sletaune

This adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland mixes animation and live action to create a dreamlike world, but don't let that fool you into thinking it's simply a kid's film. Young Alice (Kristyna Kohoutová, spoken by Camilla Power) watches a stuffed and mounted rabbit come to life in her playroom and follows it through a magical drawer into a strange world that resembles a ...

Manufacturer: First Run Features
Starring: Kristýna Kohoutová, Camilla Power
Directed By: Jan Svankmajer

Manufacturer: Manga Entertainment
Starring: Christopher Courage, Rebel Joy, Bill Timoney, Lucy Morales, Rose Palmer
Directed By: Hideki Takayama

Manufacturer: Tokyo Shock
Starring: Minase Yashiro, Asami, Kentaro Shimazu, Honoka, Nobuhiro Nishihara
Directed By: Noboru Iguchi

Manufacturer: Dimension Extreme
Starring: Béatrice Dalle, Francois-Regis Marchasson, Nathalie Roussel, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Aymen Saïdi
Directed By: Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury

Manufacturer: Grindhouse Releasing
Starring: Al Cliver, Laura de Marchi, Sarah Keller, Veronica Lazar, Katherine MacColl
Directed By: Lucio Fulci

Eurotrash sex/horror auteur Jesus Franco's Female Vampire delivers nudity, drinking of human body fluids, plentiful zoom shots, languorous music, a vestigial storyline and the odd moment of surrealism (a flapping bat car ornament). It opens with a soulful-eyed brunette (Lina Romay) striding through misty woods wearing only thigh-boots, a leather belt and a black cloak, then chancing across ...

Manufacturer: Arrow Films
Starring: Lina Romay, Jack Taylor, Alice Arno, Monica Swinn, Jesus Franco
Directed By: Jesus Franco

Manufacturer: A.D.V. Films
Starring: Akira Kubo, Jun Tazaki, Yukiko Kobayashi, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Kyôko Ai
Directed By: Ishirô Honda

Manufacturer: Adv Films
Starring: Shinobu Nakayama, Ai Maeda, Yukijirô Hotaru, Ayako Fujitani, Senri Yamasaki
Directed By: Shusuke Kaneko