"Can we turn on the lights again?!"
Finally available for easy viewing in quite good quality!
Of the canonical American horror filmmakers of the 60s & 70s, Hooper's filmography has perhaps been the most difficult to piece together. His numerous TV productions have left many films in limbo, while his divergences into non-horror meant the rabid fans have not bootlegged their hearts out to keep them in circulation. The essential release by Arrow Video of Eggshells and The Heisters on blu-ray…
It's not surrealism.
It's not metaphor or parable.
It's the genuine discordance of an ouroborus of power that cannot be broken without detonating at an atomic level.
It is the true madness that humanity threatens to make the last defining feature of Western Civilisation.
Schrodinger's Murder invested & gated thoroughly through and through by gaslight.
The house of cards beneath and behind all houses of cards; the project of patriarchy, from the engineered internalised idolatry of youth to the mutual cannibalising…
After a long night working on an AppleTV production, dancing with the possibility of carbon monoxide posioning, introducing my co-worker to huffing vapor-rub to comfort suicidal lungs, and discussing the possibility of the werecow, I made the choice to watch this as I fall asleep instead of watching some tiresome guy making necro-porn.
I made the right choice.
The waves are rolling outside in the darkness, like memories lapping against your dreams. It's always moving in there, they never came to a rest.
May your nocturnal emissions be sweet.
Enter here.
All of the threads are important. Even the ones that aren't aware they are holding the suit together. Even the threads that break and go nowhere. Even the loosest ones going their own way. Even the threads that tickle and distract you in madness. The suit that is this thing called DoroHeDoro begins in a single fold that only lasts a few moments before another fold is revealed, and another and another and the unfolding of momentum shows that we've…
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…
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…
