![]() The lead detective on the case has a televangelist wife who warns that the end of times is near! Very gory, I thought this was a lot of fun. Thirst (2019) Icelandic vampire comedy about a junkie girl who rescues a vampire from a gay-bashing attempt, only to have the vamp, who makes sure he tears and eats the dicks off all his victims, act as her guardian angel, which results in some unwanted consequences. Secrets are revealed and all is not what it seems. The catch is he has to wear a harness that restricts his access to certain areas of the house. You don’t need me to describe Bird Box, you know what it’s about!Ĭaveat (2020) A man with memory loss due to a head injury accepts a job to look after the mentally ill niece of a friend, in the home where her father just killed himself and her mother went missing. Speaking of, I’m almost through a season one rewatch of Ash vs Evil Dead. Carroll Baker and Erika Blanc are the mistress and wife, and supply a bit of nudity.īird Box (2018) I liked it the first time, wanted to check it one more time before I dump Netflix. So Sweet… So Perverse (1969) A Frenchman begins an affair with the abused woman in the flat above him, and soon finds himself part of an assassination plot complete with double and triple crosses, in this early, semi-giallo crime-thriller from Umberto Lenzi, that really gains steam in the final act. How the FUCK had I never heard of this? (available on Shudder and Midnight Pulp) After all that fucking, why not! Also with Screamin’ Jay Hawkins in a rare acting role, and loaded with violence, some nudity and all around insanity, this action gem from the director of Day of the Beast and Witchin’ and Bitchin’ delivers for the entire 130 minute runtime. ![]() They kidnap a pair of blond teenagers for ritual sacrifice before a big truck heist, but FBI agent James Gandolfini, who is constantly being hit by cars, ruins the ceremony and the pair flees with their kidnap victims in tow, and possibly developing a case of the Stockholms. It is a journey of self discovery where a man takes a truth to himself.Perdita Durango aka Dance with the Devil (1997) Javier Bardim is a bank-robbing witch doctor with a ridiculous haircut, and Rosie Perez (as Perdita Durango) is his thrill-killing girlfriend who dresses like Tura Satana from Faster Pussycat. This critically acclaimed adaptation of one of the most highly regarded books in the history of American literature, tells the story, almost in mythical fashion, of lost and lonely souls taken to a Chicago Heights boarding house where layfolk and churchfolk alike struggle with their personal demons. It is a chapter in the Bible of her consciousness." The Last Soul on a Summer Night is a contemporary reinterpretation of the antique narrative with an African American cast and a dash of ecstatic reality. In his mind, they are all “grotesque.” They have an archetypal meaning to him, and all seem to manifest aspects of a struggle for identity that may have kept him alone throughout his life.In 1919, Hart Crane said of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio: "America should read this book on her knees. He also reimagines the lives of others he may once have known, like the community pastor, a favorite teacher, and the therapist who treated his mother. ![]() He does not know if the people he imagines are his creations, his memories, or his dreams, though we cannot help but sense that they are abstracted reflections on his coming of age and his relationship with his mother, who died when he was young. He senses that he is near death, and his mind has fractured. The Last Soul on a Summer Night is a series of inter-related vignettes that play out in the imagination of an elderly writer as he stares at the ceiling light in his bedroom. The film takes the originally all-white, century-old rural stories and tells them with a predominantly African American cast in contemporary south Chicago, celebrating the universal power of the source while playing on its anachronisms. That resistance continues in The Last Soul on a Summer Night (previously known as Chicago Heights), a starkly black and white, experimental, non-linear interpretation of the antique narrative. It is an important chapter in the Bible of her consciousness.’Īnderson’s modular novel - a collection of interconnected short stories - remains one of the highest regarded works of American literature to this day, yet has proved resistant to adaptation as a mainstream Hollywood feature. In 1919, Hart Crane said of Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio: ‘America should read this book on her knees.
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