Eternal Family Streaming App Curates 10 Bizarre Films and Their Posters

Key facts

• Eternal Family is a streaming app specializing in alternative, micro-budget, and bizarre films, available mostly in the US and North America for about $6-7 per month.
• The app is run by an anonymous collective called the 'Family', described as movie archivists.
• The selected films include The Boxer's Omen, Viy, Drowning by Numbers, Funeral Parade of Roses, Kokey, Love on Delivery, Papi Gudia, Quest, The Hourglass Sanatorium, and Tyll the Giant.
• The Boxer's Omen is a Shaw Brothers horror film mixing martial arts, Buddhist mysticism, black magic, and body horror.
• Viy is a 1967 adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's story, directed by Konstantin Yershov and Georgi Kropachyov.
• Drowning by Numbers is by Peter Greenaway and features numbers hidden in each scene from one to 100.
• Funeral Parade of Roses is Toshio Matsumoto's film set in Tokyo's late-1960s queer counterculture.
• Kokey is a late-1990s Filipino variation on E.T., directed by Romy V. Suzara.
• Love on Delivery is a 1994 comedy starring Stephen Chow, directed by Lee Lik-chi.
• Papi Gudia is an unauthorized Indian reimagining of Child's Play, directed by Lawrence D'Souza and featuring Karisma Kapoor.
• Quest was co-directed by Saul and Elaine Bass and adapted from Ray Bradbury's Frost and Fire.
• The Hourglass Sanatorium is by Wojciech Jerzy Has, with a poster by Franciszek Starowieyski.
• Tyll the Giant is an Estonian animation by Rein Raamat, adapting the legend of Suur Tõll.
• The article was written by Paul M, a Junior Writer at It's Nice That since May 2025.