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If you’re tired of the usual slicing and dicing serial killers or have gotten just plain bored with the oversaturation of the living dead, here’s a severed handful of quirky horror flicks to make for a wickedly entertaining Halloween.

This year, it’s time for your Halloween to be a little bit stranger than ever.

The Vampire’s Tomb, dir. Andre Perkowski. Nobody makes an Ed Wood movie better than Ed Wood … with possibly the exception of Andre Perkowski. It’s a dark and stormy night when a family gathers for the reading of their dearly departed aunt’s will. But has the deceased returned from the grave to exact a grim revenge? Actually, not much is “grim” in this spoofy realization by Perkowski of an abandoned Wood project. (Available on: Amazon)

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Wild and Precious is Greek-Australian filmmaker Bill Mousoulis‘ first movie produced in Europe, an ambitious adventure about an Italian filmmaker and an Australian TV producer caught up in the current Greek economic crisis and rioting across that country.

Filmed in both Greece and Italy, Wild and Precious stars Alessandro Figurelli, Jennifer Levy and Emanuela Zocco and was largely improvised against the backdrop of very real events.

For more info, please visit the film’s official website. For more on the filmmaker, please visit Bill Mousoulis’ index page on Bad Lit.

What do musician Alex Chilton and filmmakers Luis Buñuel and Max Le Cain have in common? Dang if I know, but there’s some connection between the three in Bill Mousoulis‘ experimental short film The Experimenting Angel. (Gotta love that title!) The film is basically split into two interweaving parts: One is a series of still photographs of Le Cain at what appears to be either a film shoot or a performance — or both — in an old church; and the other is scenes taken from Buñuel’s L’Age d’Or (1930). The Chilton portion of the film is, of course, on the soundtrack.

Born in Australia, Mousoulis is of Greek descent and it’s in Greece where he currently mostly resides. He’s a self-taught filmmaker, having originally trained himself using Super-8 cameras, much like fellow Australian indie director Mark Savage. In fact, Mousoulis was so enthusiastic about using that...