In this series, "Experiments in Weirdness," I will examine the weirder, darker corners of filmmaking. I do not mean anything negative by calling these films "weird". Many of the films will be artistic, short films by serious and respected artists. Others will be utter trash.
What I have done is to create a list you can find here:
Random Weirdness Generator https://boxd.it/cUdCo
I will randomly select a film from this list and watch it. Mostly I will try to provide my real-time comments.
Another real-time disaster, in two parts:
Well this is grim. Police are buffoons. And the assault scenes are hyper-realistic, to a disturbing and uncomfortable degree
But it's also kind of boring
Okay the LT just stepped up. Gettin' things done.
The DVD looks good for SD.
This movie I'm watching is a classic... A classic time-waster.
One of the many "Don't" horror films
Many of these cult/grindhouse/drive-in movies are deplorable
This movie is so tonally off-balance...
It's got some good comedy moments. And I can see a sort of proto-Homicide feel to the gallows humor and the homicide detectives' attitude where they don't bother with drugs or prostitution...But the killer is so disturbing while the cop story line is more humorous
Wow there's actually some interesting character development
Interesting closing with a silent credit scrawl...It's difficult to respond to this movie. It's definitely unique
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After a brief intermission, on to my second feature.
I'm just gonna start cold because the movie did.
The actress playing this nun has less range than Kristen Stewart.
When breast implants go wrong...
Everyone in this movie feels the need to give expository monologues, like immediately upon being introduced.
This is like someone saw The Exorcist and decided to make their own version, but had neither the time, inclination, nor money to properly research the subject. Low-rent Prince of Darkness.
Every line of dialogue is so frakking literal and on the nose.
Quite entertainingly bad.
I've kind of lost track of the plot by this point. But then again it seems the writer and director have as well.
Both of the films I've watched tonight have been somewhat giallo-inspired...
The actress playing the nun is possibly the worst acting I have seen since beginning this dive to the lower depths of the iceburg...
This is more quickly paced than Don't Answer the Phone!, but with such an aimless plot that's not saying much...
There is a character in this that seems an homage to the killer from the last movie
This character just woke up and is comforted by a maid/housekeeper. This is the first time we saw the character. It's nearly an hour in. Another character has been talking on the phone to her boyfriend the entire movie. He just appeared on screen for the first time. Turns out he's a cop and important to the plot.
Actors stumble in an out of the plot like the drunkards and junkies they're portraying.
More time has been spent with a trio of gym rats than with actual important characters and plot developments.
There's like 20 minutes left but characters are still having second act conversations...
Dude playing the rogue priest sounds like Robin Williams
WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO THE NUN??? The one who was infiltrating the Satanists...???
Finally
So the Nun shows up out of nowhere at the end and saves the day...
Then she monologues to all the people she saved like she's known them all her life.
She just met them.
Why should I expect any different from a movie that started three of its first five scenes with characters monologuing?.
It also occurs to me the cop was in an early scene. I remembered this not because of character development or interaction, but because she started the scene with a fucking monologue.
The cop was so bland I forgot 1) that he was in the movie and 2) that he was the main character's love interest.
So, yeah. That happened
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