DIRECTED BY: Jean Rollin FEATURING: Françoise Pascal, Hugues Quester (as Pierre Dupont) PLOT: Young lovers go mad when they are trapped in a cemetery overnight. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Iron Rose‘s wonderfully funereal setting and muted weirdness isn’t powerful enough to overcome its lack of events. The slow-paced visual poetry here is hit-or-miss, … Continue reading CAPSULE: THE IRON ROSE [LA ROSE DE FER] (1973)
366 Weird Movies may earn commissions from purchases made through product links. “Do not demystify. When you know too much, you can never see the film the same way again. It’s ruined for you for good. All the magic leaks out, and it’s putrefied.”–David Lynch, explaining to Terrence Rafferty why he will not record director’s … Continue reading 97. MULHOLLAND DRIVE (2001)
DIRECTED BY: Fritz Lang FEATURING: Brigitte Helm, Gustav Fröhlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Alfred Abel PLOT: The futuristic city of Metropolis is divided into a wealthy, hedonistic, and patriarchal above-ground, and the beaten-down workers who serve them below. When the son of the city’s leader falls in love with a revolutionary worker, a chain of events is … Continue reading REPORT: THE COMPLETE METROPOLIS [1927] (2010 RESTORATION)