Still plenty of Donnie Darko posters left… all it will cost you is a comment.
We’ve got a very full week of reviews planned. We’ll be giving our initial impressions on Inception; the weird movie event of 2010 so far, so be sure to check in and join in the discussion! We’ll also provide coverage of Vincenzo Natali‘s 2010 sci-fier Splice (still in second run theaters, no word yet on a DVD release date); Love Object, a 2003 entry in the weird “blow-up-sex-toy-comes-to-life” subgenre; the last entry in Alfred’s coverage of B-westerns, the silent Hell’s Hinges (1916); and we’ll knock Nic Roeg‘s Walkabout and Ken Russell‘s Altered States out of the reader suggested review queue.
Our survey of the weirdest search terms used to locate the site brought some interesting inquiries this week. First, there were searches for two movies we don’t know the identities of, but are anxious to see based on the descriptions: “russian mummy horror film egg sex” and “black cat kills baby staircase movie.” (Somehow, it’s much more upsetting to see baby staircases killed onscreen then full-grown staircases). For the person who asked “is tom hardy missing a pinky?,” we’re pretty sure the answer is “no.” But we found “what is unexpected about centipedes?” to be the weirdest query of the week; we can’t even begin to formulate an answer to that one.
Here’s how the reader-suggested review queue stacks up: Trash Humpers (waiting for the DVD release); Altered States (next week); Walkabout (skipping ahead to come out next week); Nightmare Before Christmas/Vincent/Frankenweenie; The Science of Sleep; The Attic Expeditions; After Last Season; Getting Any?; Performance; Being John Malkovich; The Apple; Southland Tales; Arizona Dream; Spider (2002); Songs From The Second Floor; Singapore Sling; Alice [Neco z Alenky]; Necromentia; Hour of the Wolf; MirrorMask; Possession; Suspiria; Mary and Max; Wild Zero; 4; Nothing (2003); The Peanut Butter Solution; Ninja Scroll; Perfume: The Story of a Murderer; Danger: Diabolik; Faust; Sublime; Battle Royale; Pink Floyd: The Wall; Escanaba In Da Moonlight; Jesus Christ, Vampire Hunter; Zardoz; The Films of Suzan Pitt; Toto the Hero [Toto le Héros]; Paprika; The Holy Mountain; Brazil; The Casserole Masters; Dark Crystal; Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets; The Nines; 964 Pinocchio; The Pillow Book; Final Flesh; Lunacy [Sílení]; Inmortel; Tetsuo; Dead Ringers; Kairo [AKA Pulse]; The Guatemalan Handshake; Dead Leaves; The Seventh Seal; Primer; Maniac (1934); Hausu; A Boy and His Dog; 200 Motels; Private Parts (1972); Saddest Music in the World; Mulholland Drive; The American Astronaut; Blood Tea and Red Strings; The Films of Kenneth Anger, Vol. II (for Lucifer Rising, among others); Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory ; The Bride of Frank; La Grande Bouffe; Uzumaki [Spiral]; Hedwig and the Angry Inch; Even Dwarves Started Small; Bunny & the Bull; “I Killed My Lesbian Wife, Hung Her on a Meat Hook, and Now I Have a Three-Picture Deal at Disney” (assuming I can find it); Cinema 16: European Short Films; Freaked; Session 9; Schizopolis; Strings; Dellamorte Dellamore [AKA Cemetery Man]; The Hour-glass Sanatorium [Saanatorium pod klepsidra]; The Addiction; Liquid Sky; The Quiet; Shock Treatment; Tuvalu; “Zombie Jesus” (if we can locate it); 3 Dev Adam; Fantastic Planet; “Twin Peaks” (TV series); Society; May; The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension; Little Otik; Final Programme; Careful; Sweet Movie; The Triplets of Belleville; “Foutaises” (short); Johnny Suede; “Jam” (TV, UK, 2000), The Tale of the Floating World, Un Chien Andalou, Bloodsucking Freaks; Fellini Satyricon; Three Crowns of the Sailor; 8 1/2; Death Race 2000; Dororo; Lost Highway; Valerie and Her Week of Wonders; Dogville; and Julien Donkey-boy; Amelie; The Ten; The 7 Faces of Dr. Lao; 1; Fast, Cheap and Out of Control; Tokyo Gore Police; At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul; The Trial [Le procès) (1962); Marquis; Hell Comes to Frogtown; Hellzapoppin’; Seom [The Isle]; Allegro Non Troppo; Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus; Lust in the Dust; Celine and Julie Go Boating; “Franz Kafka’s It’s a Wonderful Life;” The Magic Christian; Black Cat, White Cat; The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T; Abnormal: The Sinema of Nick Zedd; Robot Monster; Nightdreams; 3 Women; Rubin & Ed; Teeth; Vera; Weirdsville; Prospero’s Books; Inferno; Garden State; Persona; and The Real McCoy; Rat Pfink a Boo Boo; Themroc; Candy (1968); Run Lola Run; Pink Flamingos; Buffalo ’66; Northfork; Weekend; The Room; Glen or Glenda?; Night of the Hunter; The Fox Family; Midnight Skater; Angelus; Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs; Twister (1989); Yokai Monsters, Vol. 1: Spook Warfare [AKA Big Monster War]; Haxan; This Filthy Earth; and Conspirators of Pleasure.
I drove three hours to Salt Lake City to see Trash Humpers, and, unlike most of the viewers at the Tower Theater, I felt like I had made a wise investment. I was grateful to see that, in a genre where nearly all directors focus on gore, there are still ones out there that know what makes a film, in my opinion, truly terrifying.
I confess that I have an unpopular taste in cinema, and that I have a bias towards anything directed by Korine. Still, I think it has a great shot at making the list; it’s too weird not to.