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Some horror movies banned upon release have eventually been seen by the public, but many others may never see the light of day because of their content.

"Last House on the Left" is a tough, bitter little sleeper of a movie that's about four times as good as you'd expect. There is a moment of such sheer and unexpected terror that it beats anything in the heart-in-the-mouth line since Alan Arkin jumped out of the darkness at Audrey Hepburn in "Wait Until Dark."I don't want to give the impression, however, that this is simply a good horror movie. It's horrifying, all right, but in ways that have nothing to do with the supernatural. It's the story of two suburban girls who go into the city for a rock concert...

In England circa 1380, a troupe of traveling actors makes its way across the medieval landscape, where to go 20 miles from home was to enter a world of strangers. In London at about the same time, Geoffrey Chaucer was writing about another group on the road -- pilgrims on their way to Canterbury. His Knight, learning from the journey, declared: "This world is but a thoroughfare full of woe, And we be pilgrims, passing to and fro. Death is an end to every worldly sore." The actors arrive at much the same conclusion in "The Reckoning," when they arrive at a village where a ...

25 Great Movies Inspired By Folk Tales By Meagan Drillinger, Stacker News On 8/3/21 at 8:00 PM EDT The folk tale tradition—from fairy tales to ghost stories—has origins stretching back to the start of human speech. The art of oral storytelling predates the written word, and has been used for time immemorial for recording information, teaching morality, and untangling some of life's greatest mysteries. Stacker surveyed film history and compiled a list of movies across decades, countries, and genres that drew their inspiration from the folk tale tradition, with accompanying IMDb and Meta...

　　原标题： 　　北欧艺术电影：对真与善的冷峻求索 　　丹麦导演托马斯・温特伯格的《酒精计划》（2020）去年和今年在多个电影节斩获奖项。瑞典导演罗伊・安德森晦涩难懂的电影《关于无限》（2019）获得了当年威尼斯电影节最佳导演。拉斯・冯・特里尔的另类作品《此房是我造》（2018）在戛纳电影节放映时遭到部分观众抗议，“电影结束时整个电影院空了一半。但是留下来的观众却全场起立，连续鼓掌6分钟向导演致敬”。北欧现代主义电�...