Where to begin… I suppose it might help to note that this hugely ambitious Korean film, loaded with weird special effects and dizzying action sequences, failed to attract a huge audience at the time, and left viewers wildly divided between those who adored it and those who hated the very ground it treads upon. Yeah, […]
Read more "Sungnyangpali sonyeoui jaerim [Resurrection of the Little Match Girl] (2002)"You know there is something wrong right from the beginning. A raging storm, a row of spikes set out on the road, a tire blows out, and a young man is forced to go to a neighboring house for help. Only the suspiciously helpful man he meets has a very strange request for him. As […]
Read more "Ultrasound (2021)"I had a sudden epiphany the other day and realized the correct term for one of Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson’s films is a “try-to-wrap-your-head-around-this-one.” It isn’t anything as simple as what is called the “mind (*Bleep*)”: after all, many of the films generally dumped in that category do not actually make sense as so […]
Read more "Something in the Dirt (2022)"It is very difficult to classify Strawberry Mansion. It has a science fictional setting, a very retro near future where the protagonist drives a first generation Corvair and works as a tax auditor, assessing how much people owe for their dreams. On the other hand, some would describe this as more of a fantasy, as […]
Read more "Strawberry Mansion (2021)"Wow. You never know what you’ll find when you start looking for forgotten science fiction movies. Yeah, we know most of them are forgotten for a reason, but every once in a while you find something unexpected, like this little known TV movie I’ll admit I didn’t expect too much from this one: after all, […]
Read more "Virtual Nightmare (2000)"(aka, GoShogun: The Time Stranger) There’s weird, then there’s Japanese Anime weird. And if you want proof you need look no further than GoShogun: The Time Étranger: here we have a children’s bright and colorful Giant robot television series, much in the vein of Voltron, which was adapted four years after the series ran into […]
Read more "Sengoku machine GoShogun: toki no ihôjin [GoShogun: The Time Étranger] (1985)"(Honorable Mention. Probably) Isaac Ezban has, in the course of his very short career to date, shown himself to be one of the stranger new directors out there. This was his first film. I’ve reviewed the other two he made, the strange and Twilight Zone-ish Los Parecidos, with its strange goings on in a tiny […]
Read more "El incidente [The Incident] (2014)"Look, there are some films which aren’t for everyone — And there are a few which are only for a few weirdos, oddballs, fanboys and movie reviewers. That is the sort of film Damon Packard has been making over the course of his odd independent film career, and Foxfur is no exception. It’s hard even […]
Read more "Foxfur (2012)"A young woman wakes up in a tiny attic room, tied to a chair. She tries to get free, but she can’t find a way out. And then everything gets weird and she ends up back in the chair again. She tries again and again, getting a little further each time — although she may […]
Read more "Infinitum: Subject Unknown (2021)"It’s always interesting to see something old through new eyes. In this case it is the classic Stephen King miniseries, The Langoliers — one of the few good adaptations of one of his stories I’ve seen. But now Greek director Aristotelis Maragkos had re-imagined it, in a strange, condensed, animated form, which takes the obsessive […]
Read more "The Timekeepers of Eternity (2021)"
rivets on the poster 