So after Four Skulls, we shifted to our traditional brainmelter film, we now being roughly 1:30 in the morning. Oddly, I did not provide this one (although I had one on standby), but rather our host Paul kicked in with Black Moon (1975), a surreal French Louis Malle flick about a young woman who in a near future with gender wars–militarized men literally killing militarized women and vice versa–and which is basically ignored after the first ten minutes, ends up on a farm. And then…stuff, including several adults breastfeeding other adults. It’s all purposely weird, and of course some think it’s a classic (the film has been released by Criterion), but, uh, I’m unconvinced, let’s put it that way.
Jamie provided a film he got via Kickstarter, Slave and the Sorcerer being made by a supposedly revived Amicus Films. It’s…you know those five minute AI videos wherein they reimagine Thundarr the Barbarian…you know, lots of gorgeous looking “actors” and them striking poses and such. Well, this is that but lasting 90 minutes and made on about the same amount of money. Chad R noted it was a typical movie made by LRPers, “The (homemade) costumes look great, and they’ll spend all the time on the world on them, but nobody is willing to do a second pass on the script.” Jamie’s love for the film left most of us somewhat mystified, although in a year when we watched Devil Story it clearly wasn’t even in contention for worst film.
Then it was the pre-breakfast Kung Fu slot. In honor of the absent Andrew Borntreger, we watched the recently released on Blu Ray Taoism Drunkard, a fun and highly silly flick with much goofiness. Borntreger made Internet famous the above beastie, which he dubbed the Watermelon Monster. The film was very fun, but I’ll probably stick to a traditional Shaw Bros movie next year.
