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
LA TIA ALEJANDRA
A horror outing from Mexico’s Arturo Ripstein; it’s strikingly weird, but otherwise has little to recommend
THE SPIRITUAL JOURNEY OF ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY
One of several autobiographical volumes written by the Chilean-born, Paris-based writer/filmmaker/spiritual guru Alejandro Jodorowsky
THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES…THE TRUTH HAS SET ME FREE!
A profoundly insane reminiscence adequately summed up by its own ungainly subtitle: “The memoirs of Bob Hope’s and Henry Kissinger’s mind-controlled slave…Used as a presidential sex toy and personal computer”