Reminder: you have one more week to vote in the Weirdcademy Awards poll! Currently, Enter the Void sports a healthy lead over Black Swan for weirdest picture; Zachary Oberzan leads Heath Ledger for weirdest actor; Delphine Chaneac and Natalie Portman are neck and neck for weirdest actress (a surprisingly close race); and Enter the Void‘s orgy sequence leads Black Swan‘s transformation scene for weirdest scene of the year. There’s still time to influence the results!
Next week brings you another full slate of reviews, beginning with Jan Svankmajer‘s second feature film, a predictably weird adaptation of Faust (1994); from the reader suggested review queue, we’ll take a look at the Japanese rock n’ roll zombie movie Wild Zero (2000); we’ll check out Sam Fuller’s insanely over-ambitious melodrama Shock Corridor (1963); and Alfred will continue his survey of Terence Fisher‘s Hammer work by examining the Brit’s version of The Mummy (1959).
Our survey of weird search terms used to locate the site this week brought us a person who apparently believes Luis Buñuel was a pornographer: how else to explain the search for “longest ejaculation shot in bunuel avant garde film”? We were too confused by “miss swan augmentation mamaire” to nominate it for the weirdest search term of the week, and “bizzare section bringis you bizare action and free wei…,” was too obvious (though we like the fact that the searcher bothered to type out the trailing “…”). For our official Weirdest Search Term of the week, we’ll go with “download classic black and white movies free woman on the run suddenly a guest i the house please murder me,” because of the fact that the searcher apparently went insane between the time when he started typing the search term and the point where he finished it.
Here’s that ridiculously long reader-suggested review queue (more after the break): Possession; Wild Zero (next week!); Nothing (2003); The Peanut Butter Solution; Perfume: The Story of a Murderer; Faust; Sublime; Pink Floyd: The Wall; Toto the Hero [Toto le Héros]; Paprika; The Holy Mountain; Brazil; The Casserole Masters; Dark Crystal; Throw Away Your Continue reading WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE
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In Dracula Has Risen From the Grave, the vampire approaches Zena (Barbara Ewing) in the forest. Zena nearly spills out of her top and the vampire removes one extra snap for increased spillage. The attention is so drawn to the stripping that the narrative is second thought. Later, when Veronica Carlson is seduced by Dracula, her Victorian doll falls from her bed, awkwardly symbolizing the loss of innocence.
