
The best thing about it may be the character names: it stars Malcolm McDowell as “Father Murder” and Elizabeth Daily as “Sex-Head,” and includes other characters with names like “Venus Virgo,” “Sister Serpent,” and “Fat Randy Bumpagussy.”Ĭommitted (1984): Expressionistic biopic of troubled actress Frances Farmer. It involves an involuntary “game” where contestants strive to survive a night in a funhouse full of killer clowns. 2016): Rob Zombie, the best movie director named after a reanimated corpse working today, is back at it with a new flick that he promises will be his most “brutal” and “gruesome” effort yet. Critics are describing Portuguese director Pedro Costa’s first film in ten years as “incomprehensible” and “overtly surreal.” Horse Money official site.ģ1 (est. Horse Money (2014): Ventura, a Cape Verdean immigrant suffering from dementia, wanders an expressionistically shadowed hospital, conflating his modern reality with past events. Trailers of new release movies are generally available at the official site links. Our weekly look at what’s weird in theaters, on hot-off-the-presses DVDs, and on more distant horizons… Here’s how the ridiculously-long reader-suggested review queue stands: Der Todesking (next week!) Society (next week!) The Fox Family Angelus Conspirators of Pleasure The Ninth Continue reading WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE → For our official Weirdest Search Term of the Week, we’ll pick “wife leaves husband for a demon squidman movie,” just because it’s the one we most want to see (though a mutated asparagus slasher comes in a close second). We’ll start with the unlikely search for a “mutated vegetables slasher movie” ( Veggie Tales from the Crypt, maybe?) We’ll put “the boys pines gose to the vagina the girl movie” into our “ouch!” file. “What was that movie?”-type queries dominate our latest survey of the Weirdest Search Terms of the Week. Alfred Eaker takes a break from bashing Marvel superhero movies (and enduring the resultant abuse from annoyed franchise fans) to examine another double-feature of pre-Code naughtiness, Doctor X and Mystery of the Wax Museum (just received word that Alfred may push that pre-Code pair off another week to spend some more time bashing Marvel superhero movies). Smalley takes The Trip (1967) with Peter Fonda, then investigates Society (1989). Next week Giles Edwards braves the homicidal horrors of 1990’s transgressive import Der Todesking ( The Death King), while G.
