Look, the world is full of these kind of things. Look at this: black masses, mutilations....Mutilations! The incubus, the succubus. I'm telling you, Walter was a human sacrifice!
My favorite movie.
Look, the world is full of these kind of things. Look at this: black masses, mutilations....Mutilations! The incubus, the succubus. I'm telling you, Walter was a human sacrifice!
My favorite movie.
Ulli Lommel's The Devonsville Terror is a mess where it seems that many minutes are missing, there are behaviors that feel totally random and gives a sloppy feeling with situations such as the climax composed of close-ups.
But at the same time it is a striking entry in the witch&revenge genre so to speak: Its scheme of starting in the past establishing a curse to jump to the present where the rest of the footage takes place is not something…
Part of what interests me in filmmakers like Parajanov (along with Dodo Abashidze in this case) is the ability to discover and observe sites and cultures through them, shown by the director with seduction and taste. Worlds of which I did not know their mere existence and that I would possibly never have been interested in searching for if it had not been for how he shows them, just as happens with other authors and other places and it is…
-Do you know how many video stores there are in this country?
-Country? The whole frickin world
I think the movie collapses on itself at a certain point, but it is still an extravagant and absorbing adventure where aesthetics rule.
It also serves as a powerful time capsule for those nostalgic for the retrofuturism of the 50s from the 80s or the other way around, like the video store.
After a prologue located in the Middle Ages, comes the jump to the world of today (late 80s) where the film dives into a fantasy quest, surprisingly ambitious given its limitations, filming in warehouses and dark alleys while it does not stop deviate with nonsense and jokes (contains the definitive duel between magic and red tape!). There is also no shortage of duels and action sequences, which without being exhilarating, do the trick.
You know what to expect, and despite the habit of over-extending almost every sequence, it's fairly fun.