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Odds and Ends 1993
A feminist, LGBTQ, afrofuturist, micro-budget SOV short that feels like a random episode of a sci-fi TV show from the 80's (and one that I wish I could see more of). The future-world the film depicts contains many classic sci-fi tropes, but it presents them from a perspective one rarely sees in mainstream media.
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Hellraiser 1987
"Pinhead" has been such a pop-culture mainstay for so long it's easy to forget that this film is 90% just four family members in a small suburban English house, the sadomasochists from beyond only hovering around the story's periphery. It suggests so much with so little (the unnecessary attempts to expand upon the film's cosmology undermining all but the first of the umpteen sequels). Astoundingly--yet unassumingly--original. I could go on. The one thing that's always kinda taken me out of…
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