Ôdishon (1999) by Takashi Miike
aka: Audition

Life is not so easy. Shigeharu Aoyama (Rio Ishibashi) has been warned by his friend. But all promises to cool down, before he would contact her, were made to late, as he has already fallen hopelessly in love with his chosen one: Asami Yamazaki (Eihi Shiina), a sweet, beautiful, intelligent, sensitive and very egoistic young girl.

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The french lieutenants woman (1981) by Karel Reisz

Eventually Charles Henry Smithson (Jeremy Irons) reaches light and relief after struggeling through the long dark tunnel of a proscribed, forbidden and lost love to Sarah (Meryl Streep), whereas his impersonator Mike synchronistically reverses backwards into the same tragic tunnel loosing himself in a secret film-set love affair with the leading actress and impersonator of Sarah, Anna.

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La bestia uccide a sangre freddo (1971) by Fernando di Leo
aka: Slaughter hotel or The cold blooded beast

The asylum for the rich and naughty ones. Husbands in despair. One after the other drops off their spoiled wives at the idyllic italian sanatorium hotel, in good hope for a long stay (rather than cure). And why would anybody like to leave a paradise, where a wooden but surprisingly sensitive Dr. Francis Clay (Klaus Kinski) slaloms virtuously through the ladies, cat-eye nurse Helen (Monika Strebel) takes good care of her lonely protective(s) and a well shaped gardener (John Ely) seducively swings his huge scythe in the rose garden?

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The beast must die (1974) by Paul Annett

Any beast can smell its kind from a distance, and equally instinctively blessed is their hunter, here in excellent shape of an athletically and not only purposefully dressed up Calvin Lockheart (Tom Newcliffe) whose seven well chosen suspicious guests lack any chance and hope to escape his cosy hunting ground until the pressumed werewolf is tracked down. And everybody is invited to guess who will be the first to grow black hair where it’s not supposed to grow.

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Profondo Rosso (1975) by Dario Argento
aka: Deep Red

When lithuanian medium Helga Uhlmann (Macha Méril) gets sent dangerously weird screaming thoughts in the middle of a conference for parapsychologists, a murderously looping childrens’ song will very soon be played for her as well as for all the following victims. Witness to murder and virtuous pianist neighbour Marcus Daly (David Hemmings) gets obsessed to reveal the dark lurking secret behind the killing melody.

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The three faces of Eve (1957) by Nunnally Johnson

Three in one are two too many.

Grey mouse wife Eve White, cute and naughty Eve Black vs. bright Miss Questionmark – therefore called Jane – (all three: Joanne Woodward) are dramatically struggeling for their exclusive appearance and existence, under the caring and understanding switches of Psychologist Dr. Luther (Lee J. Cobb). But: Two of the three have to go.

Three guesses: Who will be the lucky one?

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Sisters (1973) by Brian de Palma

A charmant lover of equally charming et naughtie Danielle (Margot Kidder) one of the famous, just recently seperated siamese twin sisters, gets brutally stabbed to death [-he was just about to surprise his new love with a really deliciously arranged birthday cake-] right in front of the eyes of nosey journalist Grace Collier (Jennifer Salt), who, in sherlock manner gets on the case and directly into the hypnotic hands of the sisters’ psychologist Emile Breton (William Finley).
Desperately trying to seperate Danielle from the evil presence of her sister Dominique, Breton himself gets killed, again just right in front of the eyes of Collier, who, to everybody’s surprise, hasn’t seen anything.

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Kyôfu joshikôkô: bôkô rinchi kyôshitsu (1973) by Norifumi Suzuki
aka: Terrifying Girls’ High School: Lynch Law Classroom

The chemistry lab of The School of Hope, a corrupt collecting point for japanese delinquent girls, is one of the main scenarios for the nasty but imaginative punishments of the so called discipline-brigade formed by a bunch of bitchy students. The cruel idyll changes whith the arrival of tough girl gang leader The boss with the cross (Miki Sukimoto) who wants to revenge the death of her former lieutenant.

A cold wind is blowing
Not a soul on campus
The shadows cast are full of lies
Purposely with a light step
A cute little pup comes to play.
And won ‘t leave me alone
Days of song are so far a way.
They’ll never come again for me

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