Fantasy

Director: Sidney Lumet
Writer: Joel Schumacher based on William F. Brown and Charlie Smalls‘ musical which was based on L. Frank Baum‘s novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Release Year: 1978

Insert your own pee or cheese joke.

Kindergarten teacher Dorothy (Diana Ross) is home – also her Aunt Em (Theresa Merritt) and Uncle Henry (Stanley Greene) are home – in New York City’s Harlem neighborhood for a Thanksgiving dinner with her extended family. Aunt Em is worried that Dorothy is trapped in her own little world and has never been south of 125^th Street. This is soon remedied when Toto escapes and leads Dorothy into a most unseasonable twister in the streets that, of course, takes her to Oz….

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Director: Jaromil Jires
Writers: Jaromil Jires & Ester Krumbachová with additional dialog by Jirí Musil and based on a novel by Vítezslav Nezval
Release Year: 1970
Czech title: Valerie a týden divu

Bleed little girl, bleed.

Thirteen year old Valerie (Jaroslava Schallerová) – who looks like a young Britt Ekland – lives with her grandmother (Helena Anýzová) in a large house. One day, missionary / actor-player / complete weirdo Tchor-konstábl (Jirí Prýmek) appears in the town with Orlík (Petr Kopriva) – who may have already been there – and quickly becomes interested in grandmother and Valerie. There’s much more to it than that as the film unfolds like a fever dream story of incest, lesbianism, sexual-awaking, molestation, sexuality, marriage as well as vampires, weasels and religion….

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Director: Vincent Ward
Writer: Ronald Bass based on a book by Richard Matheson
Release Year: 1998

Hell is Robin Williams.

Annie Collins-Nielsen (Annabella Sciorra) goes crazy when her kids, Ian (Josh Paddock) and Marie (Jessica Brooks Grant), are killed in a car accident. Only the antics of her husband Chris (Robin Williams) are able to draw her back to some sense of normality, but then he’s killed too in another car accident. She doesn’t cope well, but that’s the least of the problems in this film….

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Director: Goran Dukic
Writer: Goran Dukic based on a novella by Etgar Keret
Release Year: 2006

Suicide just makes things worse.

Zia (Patrick Fugit) killed himself because his girlfriend left him. Eugene (Shea Whigham) killed himself because he was sick of being a laughingstock. When Zia discovers that his ex-girlfriend Desiree (Leslie Bibb) also killed herself, he gets Eugene to go on a road trip to find her.

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