Udo Kier

A retired hairdresser Pat, escapes his small-town nursing home after learning of his former client's dying wish for him to style her final hairdo. Pat embarks on a comical and bittersweet odyssey across town to confront the ghosts of his past.

“Potent and poetic, mischievous and macabre, Borowczyk’s film shows how many imaginative worlds the horror movie can open up when the right artist holds the keys” (Nigel Andrews, Financial Times) It’s the engagement party for brilliant young Dr Henry Jekyll (Udo Kier) and his fiancée, the beautiful Fanny Osbourne (Marina Pierro), attended by various pillars of Victorian society, including the astonishing Patrick Magee in one of his final roles. But when people are found raped and murdered outside and ultimately inside the house, it becomes clear that a madman has broken in to disrupt the festivities – but who is he? And why does Dr Jekyll keep sneaking off to his laboratory? We know the answer, of course, but Walerian Borowczyk’s visually stunning adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s much-filmed tale is crammed with wildly imaginative and outrageously perverse touches characteristic of the man who scandalised audiences with Immoral Tales and The Beast, not least the explicitly sexualised nature of Mr Hyde’s primal urges.

Inspired by early 20th century Paris' provocative Théâtre du Grand Guignol, this anthology showcases seven of horror's most transgressive filmmakers.

A successful novelist suffering from writer's block rents a country cottage in the hope of finding inspiration. But the arrival of a sensual secretary sets in motion of chain of events that culminate in an unrestrained explosion of sex and savagery.

A smuggler of black market merchandise is solicited by the CIA for deleterious involvement with Flight TWA 800 and to cover up a Nicaraguan blackmail attempt on the agency.

Film is magic. And in the right hands, it can be a weapon. For on-the-ropes movie programmer Kirby Sweetman (Norman Reedus of BLADE II), the holy grail of cinema is Le Fin Absolue du Monde, a legendary lost movie whose sole showing was rumored to have driven its audience to a homicidal frenzy. But as Kirby gets closer to the truth about the film, he's sucked into a private hell of grisly hallucinations and brutal acts of violence. Now the only surviving print of the film is within his grasp and the most horrific screening of all is about to begin. Udo Kier (SUSPIRIA, THE KINGDOM) co-stars in this gore-drenched mind-blower written by Drew McWeeny and Scott Swan, and directed by horror legend John Carpenter.

A witch hunter's apprentice has second thoughts after getting some unsettling on-the-job training in a superstitious, 17th-century Austrian hamlet.

Baron Frankenstein creates two "zombies" - one male, one female - planning to mate them in order to create a master race.

The beautiful O is taken by her boyfriend, Rene, to a bizarre retreat, where she is trained in bondage and sexual perversion. Rene discharges a personal debt by transferring possession of O to his step-brother, Sir Stephen...

Aging punk diva Vera V. (Geraldine Chaplin) arrives in Santo Domingo to direct a cinematic tribute to her mentor, the late Jean-Louis Jorge. Her loyal choreographer Henry (Udo Kier) soon joins the production team, which includes many of her frequent collaborators. But while the Caribbean setting is sumptuous and the musical numbers are grand, mysterious forces begin to threaten the shoot.

A young woman who has been haunted by her sister’s drowning death decades earlier is triggered into deeper self-destruction when she goes back home.

An emotionally fragile woman has to return to her family's estate after the murder of her grandmother, where she'll face brutal memories of her past.

In the United States of Europe in 2023, a soldier suffering from amnesia returns home from war in a desperate search for his wife and his memory.

A metropolitan city is in the grip of fear when rolling blackouts bring out a serial killer dubbed The Picasso Killer…

The filming of Nosferatu (1922) is hampered by the fact that its star Max Schreck is taking the role of a vampire far more seriously than seems humanly possible.

This early triumph by Lars von Trier, which won no less than three prizes at Cannes, is one of his most bizarre yet accessible works: a feverish retooling of film noir, an unhinged thriller, and a visually mind-blowing odyssey into a nightmare of our past.

A Jewish strongman performs in Berlin as the blond Aryan hero Siegfried.

A teenage boy experiences the thrilling world of 1984, centering around dance clubs, music, and sex, just as the world’s AIDS epidemic is beginning.

Keyhole is a rousing 1930's gangster picture set in a haunted house. It is a ghost sonata in which dream and waking life are seamlessly blended to isolate and expose universal feelings. A gangster and deadbeat father, Ulysses Pick, returns home after a long absence. He is toting two teenagers: a drowned girl, Denny, who has mysteriously returned to life; and a bound-and-gagged hostage, who is actually his own teenage son, Manners. Confused, Ulysses doesn't recognize his own son, but he feels with increasing conviction he must make an indoor odyssey from the back door of his home all the way up, one room at a time, to the marriage bedroom where his wife Hyacinth awaits, full of cancer, grieving over the deaths of her three children, and wooed by Ulysses' arch-rival, Chang. The house is haunted by countless dead relatives. Ulysses eventually reaches his goal and vanquishes his enemy, but the equilibrium of the house has been disturbed. Perhaps this has all been a dream that is dreamt every night by Manners himself or by the ghosts he loves so much.