“We hoped for the look of a Bergman film and the feel of Cocteau.”–variously attributed to screenwriter John Clifford or director Herk Harvey
DIRECTED BY: Herk Harvey
FEATURING: Candace Hilligoss, Sidney Berger
PLOT: Mary Henry, a church organist, is the lone survivor of an accident when the car she’s riding in plunges over the side of an old wooden [...]
A full review of the classic 1962 microbudget horror, Carnival of Souls, should post tomorrow.
Next in the review queue is Terry Gilliam’s 2005 offering, Tideland.
Alfred Eaker has agreed to provide writing for the site on a weekly basis. We’re looking forward to his critical re-evaluation of Tod Browning’s Dracula on Thursday.
In addition, we are working [...]
A look at what’s weird in theaters, on hot-off-the-presses DVDs, and on more distant horizons…
Trailers of new release movies are generally available on the official site links.
IN THEATERS (WIDE RELEASE):
Monsters vs. Aliens (2009): A DreamWorks 3-D adventure for children about a group of mutated monsters fighting an alien invasion. The trailer begin with the phrase “The [...]
This guest essay is by Alfred Eaker, director of Jesus and Her Gospel of Yes!, which was voted Best Experimental Film in the 2004 New York International Film and Video Festival, and the feature
DIRECTED BY: Mark Pellington
FEATURING: Richard Gere
PLOT: A Washington Post reporter loses his wife in an automobile accident,
then finds himself spirited away to a West Virgina town where the residents are spotting monsters and undergoing horrifying precognitive hallucinations.
WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Not weird enough. Taking its cues from parapsychology and cryptozoology, and positioning itself [...]
“…it seems to me that of all my books Steppenwolf is the one that was more often and more violently misunderstood than any other, and frequently it is actually the affirmative and enthusiastic readers, rather than those who rejected the book, who have reacted to it oddly…”–Hermann Hesse in the 1961 prologue to Steppenwolf
DIRECTED BY: [...]
I’ve just been alerted to the presence of a recent surrealist Czech film that is available for viewing for free (with the permission of its owners, of course) online. The operators of the webiste say the film will be available for online streaming for a limited time only, but don’t give a date for it [...]
A look at what’s weird in theaters, on hot-off-the-presses DVDs, and on more distant horizons…
Trailers of new release movies are generally available on the official site links.
IN THEATERS (WIDE RELEASE)
Knowing (2009): Alex Proyas (Dark City) brings us this “Twilight Zone” style tale with Nicolas Cage about a time capsule that contains coded prophecies for the [...]
DIRECTED BY: Alfred Eaker & Ross St. Just
FEATURING: Alfred Eaker, PinkFreud
PLOT: ”W” appears in a meteorite in the Arizona desert, steals the election for
the party of No, and becomes a tyrant opposed by liberal reporter BlueMahler.
WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: With half the characters distinguished by facepaint that makes them look like either World Wrestling [...]
“I mean, I don’t know how to describe it. But I just did. It’s just an insane f***in’ movie with insane parts. You’re watching it, it gives these curves that you didn’t see coming, until probably I just told you and showed you in the review. But it’s just I don’t even know how else [...]
