IT IS FINE! EVERYTHING IS FINE.
Those who can tolerate sexually explicit psychosexual weirdness will enjoy this cinemutation, the second directorial effort by the demented Crispin Glover
INLAND EMPIRE
A David Lynch movie that makes his previous puzzlers LOST HIGHWAY and MULHOLLAND DRIVE seem downright coherent
INAUGURATION OF THE PLEASURE DOME
One of the most striking films made by Kenneth Anger, a giant in underground moviemaking
NOTHING
It’s a rare event when a film arrives with a genuinely bold and unique concept, and even rarer when said film actually lives up to it. NOTHING, directed by Canada’s Vincenzo Natali, handily accomplishes both feats
HAUSU
A far weirder than average haunted house movie from Japan, a heavily stylized film dealing with issues of sexuality and femininity
THE HOURGLASS SANATORIUM
Although it’s little known, this Polish-made reverie is one of the screen’s great mindbenders
HORRORS OF MALFORMED MEN
Like many cult movie buffs the world over, I’ve been curious about this long-banned Japanese film for years. It’s inevitable, I guess, that I was disappointed
THE HOLY MOUNTAIN
Chilean madman Alejandro Jodorowsky’s successor to EL TOPO was this crazed 1973 masterpiece
FREAK ORLANDO
Perhaps the ultimate Freak Movie, this beyond-bizarre German phantasmagoria features human oddities of every conceivable assortment (some natural born, others created by prosthetic FX) in a surreal cavalcade the likes of which you won’t see anywhere else
2013: Bedlam in Print
Here we have the latest (admittedly quite belayed) installment of my annual overview of the previous year’s horror-minded publications