Tuesday, December 1, 2020

We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 416

 stand-out viewing for the stressful few years of November 

(October)



AMULET (2020, dir. Romola Garai)

oh i get it. 


SPUTNIK (2020, dir. Egor Abramenko)

like a less bonheaded version of Venom. 

THE BLACK CAT (1989, dir. Luigi Cozzi)

a meta-sequel to Daria Nicolodi's (RIP) Three Mothers trilogy that was also released as a Demons sequel? if this was anymore of an Italian stereptype it would be using a large turtle shell as a hoverboard.

DOGS OF WAR (1980, dir. John Irvin)

like a way more existential, way less heroic take on the whole "assemble a team of bad asses to murder a dictator so we can install our own" thing. 


BLACKOUT EXPERIMENTS (2016, dir. Rich Fox)

full disclosure; the part where the low-muttering woman in her underwear close-straddled the dude tied to a chair while making him fist-fuck a raw chicken gave me some tingly wingly in my special area. it's been a rough. few. weeks. 

DIAL CODE: SANTA CLAUS (1989, dir. Rene Manzor)

like a Spielberg (or Spielberg-esque) holiday epic from a child murdering hell dimension populated by violent French art-whores.

BLUE MONKEY (1987, dir. William Fruet)

"what's a blue monkey?"

"well, it's not quite blue, and it's not quite a monkey, but maaaaaaaaaaan hahahahahahahaha.... so to answer your question i don't know."

CRAZY, NOT INSANE (2020, dir. Alex Gibney)

a fascinating, frustrating, and feeling look at how we fail us. 


CATEGORY III: THE UNTOLD STORY OF HONG KONG EXPLOITATION CINEMA (2018, dir. Calum Waddell)

a deep dive into cinema's guttural id

COLD LIGHT OF DAY (1989, dir. Fhiona-Louise) 

dumps floodlights upon the dismal alienation of a serial killer's private universe. 

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