Arrabal’s films are very much in the mode of Bunuel’s seminal UN CHIEN ANDALOU, which, you’ll recall, opened with a close up of an eyeball being slashed and continued in that vein, outraging, scandalizing and shocking cineastes the world over.
Some seriously freaky shit, this, an oddly repellant and disturbing graphic novel
Here we have further proof that the Chilean writer/filmmaker Alexandro (or Alejandro) Jodorowsky is one of most magnificently brain-fried geniuses alive
One of those Euro-flavored oddities of which I can’t seem to get enough
A stunning exercise in subconscious dementia that preceded Kafka and the surrealists by nearly two decades
A real curiosity: a surrealist novel masquerading as a gothic thriller that never entirely satisfies as either. Rather, it’s a rare book that exists in its own indefinable category
A book published in 1896 that appears to have been a dull-as-dirt educational treatise (on the capture and disposal of plague-carrying rodents), twisted by the demented Crispin Glover into an exercise in surreal distortion
The strangest book in the world is the mind-bending CODEX SERAPHINIANUS by Luigi Serafini.