Streets, apartments, offices, bars, the countryside: all are normal, calm, familiar –until a chasm opens up to reveal another, darker world lurking underneath. The uncanny is so interwoven with modern material reality that it becomes hard to know where one leaves off and the other begins. These movies are classics of the wildly imaginative independent cinema that flourished in lower Manhattan from the late 1970s to the 1990s, but they were hard to find—until now.
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