LA MOUSTACHE
A man loses touch with reality after shaving off his mustache in this French-made excursion in surreal paranoia that’s ominous, unsettling and extremely well acted
INK
Viewing this film in the company of a paying audience was like being transported back in time to the late 90s/early 00s, when sci fi-tinged freak-outs like DARK CITY, PI, DONNIE DARKO and THE MATRIX were far more prevalent
2005: The Year in Bedlam
The following encompasses my picks for the year’s best and worst horror films released in the US in 2005
2003: The Year in Bedlam
2003 is over, meaning it’s time once again for my year-end horror movie wrap up
The Fifty Best Horror Movies of All Time: A Personal Selection
What follows are my fifty favorite horror movies of all time
THE SEED
I’m not sure I liked this book all that much, but it exerts a definite druggy fascination
Surrealism in Collage: The Novels of Max Ernst
Max Ernst was one of the most famous of the original surrealists, and his supreme masterworks are the collage novels THE HUNDRED HEADLESS WOMAN, A LITTLE GIRL DREAMS OF TAKING THE VEIL and A WEEK OF KINDNESS
Alice in Euroland
There must have been something in the air. How else to explain what happened in Europe during the 1970s, when four world-renowned filmmakers inexplicably elected to ditch their usual fare in favor of bizarre ALICE IN WONDERLAND-inspired phantasmagorias?
THE WOLF
From Los Angeles based artist Tom Neely, a most unique and fascinating “painted novel” that operates on the same level as an especially weird David Lynch movie
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN
One of those Euro-flavored oddities of which I can’t seem to get enough