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Leviathan (I) (2012)

April 30, 2015 Respond

In the very waters where Melville’s Pequod gave chase to Moby Dick, leviathan captures the collaborative clash of man, nature, and machine. Shot on a dozen cameras – tossed and tethered, passed from fisherman to filmmaker – it is a cosmic portrait of one of mankind’s oldest endeavors. (c) Official Site
The Council of the Gods [Der Rat der Götter, Kurt Maetzig/East Germany 1950]

April 26, 2015 Respond

This is an East German propaganda film based on Richard Sasuly’s book IG Farben from 1947. Sasuly was one of the first to write and investigate the implication of Big Business oligarchy in the Nazi War effort. His book is not easy to find – so I would recommend a look at the detailed notes…
CHILLER [Wes Craven 1985]

April 25, 2015 Respond

CHILLER was a TV movie by Wes Craven (People Under the Stairs, The Hills Have Eyes, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Shocker) about cryogenics. Chiller is a rare ice-cube of midnight TV, hard to find, and most of the online versions where terrible or hard coded in Spanish etc Still it’s a marvellous period piece…
The Thrill Seekers [aka The Time Shifters 1999]

April 25, 2015 Respond

File under: futurist adrenaline junkies, death tourism addicts, capitalist gore hounds from the year 2077. Probably this low budget sci-fi 1999 movie by Mario Azzopardi went unseen & unheard for most of you (including me). I was made aware of its existence by Zero Department member and Clinamen publisher from Geneva Lucas Cantori. He was…
The Secret Glory of Otto Rahn [Richard Stanley 2001]

April 18, 2015 Respond

This is an immersive biographic documentary about Otto Rahn – SS Obersturmführer, medievalist, Ariosophist, charged by Himmler to find the Holy Grail. Otto Rahn ended being discharged as homosexual and being asked to commit suicide as a honourable death in 1939. I never had the nerve to explore and sift trough the occult tentacles of the…
GOD TOLD ME TO [Larry Cohen 1976]

April 17, 2015 Respond

File under: paleoastronautic xenotheological space oddity, police procedural meets occult cosmic drama, paranormal conspiracy mind control epic, contemporary demonology docu-horror. Fuck labels, this film is truly hard to pin down, but what comes of it is a brooding, eerie masterpiece! The last two movies I’ve tried to review have been kindly suggested by Felix Petrescu/Makunouchi…
FAULTS [Riley Stearns 2014]

April 17, 2015 Respond

File under: impeccable retro eerie black comedy, weird motel theophany, hypnosis binds us all, exit counsellor discovering the fierce truth about himself. This is definitely one of those movies I fear I will keep watching for decades to come again and again. It is a movie that thrives in a twilight region of deprogramming and…
End of the Line [Maurice Devereaux 2007]

April 16, 2015 Respond

File under: doomsday cult mayhem, subway demonology, be afraid of the beep of that incoming sms. End of the Line is a Canadian indie horror that’s not so much talked about, still I think it’s one of the best and should be paired up with Kontroll and Midnight Meat Train for a Subway Gate-to-Hell trilogy.…