This is a very special edition of “What’s in the Pipeline” (you’ll see why as you get to the big announcement at the bottom), so we’ll be altering our usual format. First, however, we have to remind you to vote in the championship round of the March Mad Movie Madness contest, as two weird titans … Continue reading WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE
DIRECTED BY: Chano Urueta FEATURING: Abel Salazar PLOT: A smirking sorcerer is burnt alive by the Spanish Inquisition, only to return three hundred years later as a shapeshifting brain-eater to wreak his vengeance on the descendants of those who condemned him. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Brainiac‘s appeal, weird or otherwise, lies almost entirely … Continue reading CAPSULE: BRAINIAC [El barón del terror] (1962)
“And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.” —Matthew Arnold, “Dover Beach” (quote originally intended to introduce Archangel) DIRECTED BY: Guy Maddin FEATURING: Kyle McCulloch, Kathy Marykuca PLOT: In 1919, one-legged Canadian airman Lt. John Boles finds his way to the Russian … Continue reading 10. ARCHANGEL (1990)
Na srebrnym globie 366 Weird Movies may earn commissions from purchases made through product links. “The Ministry may have had various reasons for curtailing production, but it’s not inconceivable that someone there simply thought that another 40 minutes of this stuff might just have been too much for viewers’ sanity.”–Jonathan Romney, Film Comment DIRECTED BY: … Continue reading 61*. ON THE SILVER GLOBE (1988)
Fando y Lis 366 Weird Movies may earn commissions from purchases made through product links. “…tragedy and Grand-Guignol, poetry and vulgarity, comedy and melodrama, love and eroticism, happenings and set theory, bad taste and aesthetic refinement, the sacrilegious and the sacred, ritual death and the exaltation of life, the sordid and the sublime…”–Fernando Arrabal‘s recipe … Continue reading 54*. FANDO AND LIS (1968)