RETRIBUTIONAL SODOMY: We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 462

Sunday, May 30, 2021

We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 462

stand-out viewing for the dysentery pus show that was May.

(April)

BAXTER (1989, dir. Jerome Bolvin)

aka The Killer Inside Marley and Me.

BLOOD (2000, dir. Charly Cantor)

here's a mysterious one from the early 00s fits right alongside other "it's not a vampire" vampire movies (Martin, Night Owl, the Addiction, Habit, the Transfiguration), with drops of In My Skin, Cutting Moments, and Raw, with an additional thematic layer of repressed fetishism coming to dominate and devour the increasingly insular universe the characters are fated to inhabit. pretty heady stuff... especially coming from the Asylum, before they hit paydirt with their stable of "mockbusters" and the Sharknado franchise.

BLOOD FOR FLESH (2019, dir. Alex Hernandez)

vicious Mexican gore collides with the kind of cryptic creation myth that informs the universe of Begotten.

CALL GIRL OF CTHULHU (2014, dir Chris LaMartina)

so much better than it has any reason to be.

GARDEN OF TORMENT (1976, dir. Christian Gion)

what was released with the intention of piggy-backing off the success of the comparatively placid Emanuelle instead delivers something more along the lines of Salo. i'm not a movie poster collector, but i'd love to snage the above.

GUNDALA (2019, dir. Joko Anwar)

haven't so thoroughly enjoyed a "big" superhero franchise since Nolan's Bat-Cycle, but even those films too often defer to the sort of normie hand-holding "realism", sacrificing all the rudderless imagination running through the comic book sources. not so much here; the weightier grit is in perfect balance with the magical speculation.