This film & its unbound character is no scream, rising up against whatever. No 'lone man against the world'. As the film states, he was already "mad" before the war, & the afterwards - as Japanese society rebuilt itself amidst the greedy, meddling hands of the many who felt they deserved something - made no difference other than to give him more space to explode.
In Stephen King's Cujo, King sets the scene of a community of pressurisation. Of normal structures & routines,…
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Graveyard of Honor 1975
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The Ghastly Ones 1968
I hesitate to say that any actor here gives a bad performance, or in most Milligan films. They fit perfectly into Milligan's maelstroms. He is at his finest when all his mediocre-to-bad elements are each humming in perfect unity within each section (acting, camera, post, etc) & they are then hurled twirling into the air to become something so much more than good or bad.
If you like one of Milligan's characters on first impression, the actor & the writer/cinematographer/director will have…
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Hildegarde 2001
You will believe Richard E. Grant is a budgie smuggler.
A disjointed & unconvincing mess that feels ancient beyond its 2001 release date & rehashed as only Australian kids entertainment can be, & I say this as someone who hand-raised a pet duck with a struggling single mother in rural Australia.
Way too much time spent on the kids & not enough time with the titular duck. Classic ducksploitation bait & switch.But at least I can now say I have seen the film in which Richard E. Grant dresses like an extra from an 80s Italian post-apocalypse film & kidnaps a duck.
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Transformations 1972
In going through an article on Vermont folk horror from Arrow Video's excellent American Horror Project Vol.2, in relation to DARK AUGUST, I was reading up on a spate of experimental witchy films from early 70s Vermont in Steven R. Bissette's informative essay. Through it I discovered this "experimental" short.
Made in 1972, it was screened independently throughout the region being one of a handful of "essentially secret films," writes Bissette in the Arrow booklet, "self-distributed by the filmmakers themselves…
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Surviving Edged Weapons 1988
A jewelled crown of paracinema, a prize that was never meant for mere mortals, Surviving Edged Weapons comes to us from a golden age of violence & silliness. It was a police training video, created for a professional elite to educate & enlighten. How a man jiggling at the speed of danger, hips flexing & thrusting, was meant to train a police officer in the ways of self defense remains a mystery. There are many mysteries surrounding this film, such as who the…
