It’s okay, judge me. It’s what anyone deserves when they let morbid curiosity get the better of them instead of worrying about the moral decay of the universe. But as much as I convinced myself these last few years I was done with these kinds of films, this one just lingered in the periphery. A monstrous shadow looming over all modern transgressive cinema. An omnipresent internet pest, texting me disembodied lols and emojis of claw hammers and severed nipple oops-memes…
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Zombie Flesh Eaters 1979
I feel I was already pretty fluent in speaking Fulci the first time I saw this years ago. I'd only seen City of the Living Dead by that point, but it had already exploded inside my brain like some kind of cinematic stroke. The weird kind that unlocks a previously unknown language in your brain. The kind that would make me start speaking in nothing but a grotesque Italian accent whenever discussing the fever dream logic of this man's films.…
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Frankenhooker 1990
You had me
At crack that makes prostitutes
Blow up.Then they blew up.
And you
Just kept on
giving.Thank you, Frankenhooker
You're the best.
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As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty 2000
I feel I need to write something about this, before its images fade, and it becomes indistinguishable from my own memories. What I’ve just seen is an entire lifetime. At first, I did not know whose life it was, as these images came towards me at a high velocity. Blurred. Jangled. Sun damaged. The faces of strangers. The shapes of rooms I have never been in. All of them, like stars or insects, either too big or too small to…