Cold

 

COLD STORAGE-1988-In this black & white overly arty “Eraserhead” influenced horror movie, a deformed young man (Glenn Pearce) lives in some kind of apartment building that's almost like a prison. He doesn't even know what it's like outside. He has sick dreams and kills a woman washing her clothes (he's not the only one there). The camera lingers on different objects and there's a lot of talk but it never goes anywhere.

 It has a good soundtrack though.

 Writer/director Paul M. Rinehard may have done more after this....

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Covered

 

COVER ME BABE- 1970-Pretentious arty filmmaker (Robert Forster) likes to buck the system after losing out on a film grant. He refuses to cooperate with a Hollywood producer (Jeff Corey) and would rather film a person dying or a couple making out. In the end he loses everything but is such a smug self centered loser he doesn't seem to realize it. Sondra Locke, Sam Waterston and Regis Toomey co-star. It was directed by Noel Black who made JENNIFER ON MY MIND the next year and went into TV (THE WORLD BEYOND).

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Polanski and Pleasence

 

CUL DE SAC-1966-Weirdo allegory art drama about a sleazy annoying gangster Richard (Lionel Stander) and his equally annoying much worse wounded partner (Jack MacGowran) who get lost in North Cumberland after a botched bank robbery. He wanders till he finds a castle occupied by an eccentric wimpy bald man George (Donald Pleasence) and his much younger slutty dominant wife Teresa (Francoise Dorleac). After his partner dies, Richard kind of takes over the place and at one point pretends to be their servant when a bunch of their friends come over. Eventually he's killed by the husband who seems to lose his mind, scaring his wife away and winding up alone and abandoned. 

Incomprehensible nuttiness by Roman Polanski made in between REPULSION and THE FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS.

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Nutsy Nazi Nonsense

 

NAZI UNDEAD-2018-Ashley (Georgia Chara) and Brad (Leigh Scully), a college couple from Australia with relationship problems have car trouble on the way to a castle. After finding a dead girl they wind up trapped in an old house with what seems to be the dead body of a Nazi officer. The place seems to be haunted. After having a nightmare Brad disappears. Ashley wanders around looking for him while seeing visions. Later she finds Brad who's been tortured, his body twisted. He wants her to put him out if his misery and kill him which she does. Then she cries and vomits. She leaves the house.

At the 32 minute mark it seemed it was over but after wandering around Ashley finds herself back at the house, locked in. Some ghoul children ghosts say "Shhh" when she screams. She watches a film of the Nazi (Andy McPhee) killing his wife and kids because they are "unpure". He then cuts out their eyes and kills himself. The Nazi shows up and examines her teeth. She faints and wakes up with her mouth sewed shut. She runs away and into a car, who's occupants are Ashley and Brad and the movie begins to repeat! Except this time Brad dies from having a swastika carved in his back. The Nazi shows up and examines Ashley. She faints and wakes up, once again with her mouth sewn shut. She runs into her car again and the movie repeats itself again only this time Ash looks at the body and sees it's her. It seems a crazy un-dead nanny is to blame. 

This derivative art school trash was directed by Steven Spiel and is also known as LIVING SPACE.

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Serial Killer Short

I WAS A TEENAGE SERIAL KILLER-1993-Crappy, pseudo-arty black and white nonsense features lots of close-ups and dialogue that's not synced to the person talking. Mary (Kristin Calabrese in her only acting role) is a slut who has sex with men and then kills them. After killing one guy, she sticks a banana in his mouth. She meets a male psycho Henry (Corey) who kills “straight white males”. They seem to fall in love and kill people. Later she kills him. I think it might have been some kind of black comedy but I don't think the director, producer, etc. knew exactly what they wanted from this 20 minute waste of time. Director/writer Sarah Jacobson later made MARY JANE'S NOT A VIRGIN ANYMORE.

Hippies

AN AMERICAN HIPPIE IN ISRAEL-1972-Mike (Asher Tarzafati)), a hippie from NYC goes to Israel to “bum around” after a bad experience in Vietnam where he was turned into a “murder machine”. While hitchhiking he meets Elizabeth (Lily Avidan), a rich actress who rants and says “you fools” a lot. After they have sex, Elizabeth goes hippie too and she and Mike rollick around town. They meet a bunch of “local hippies” and decide to go to an isolated island and “be free” but their freaked out love-in is disrupted when two white faced guys in suits and top hats machine gun everyone but Mike and Elizabeth and 2 remaining friends. Mike has a strange dream where people do weird things and he fights two figures that have reel to reel tape recorders for heads! The foursome buy a lamb and have sex in a car. They eventually go to a deserted island and skinny dip and dance. When their raft disappears they are stuck on the island and begin to see that “being free” isn't all it's cracked up to be. They quickly turn into savages, fight over the lamb and with each other. They all die and the white faced men drive away in their car. I think director Amos Sefer saw EL TOPO and LORD OF THE FLIES too many times! Filmed in Israel and Egypt.

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Monkey Gone To Heaven

CQ-2002-When your dad is an Academy Award winning director who owns his own movie studio you can do anything you want! Roman Coppola has. He wrote and directed this weird "81/2" like story which takes most of it's influence from French "new wave" films.

Jeremy Davies (who later played Charles Manson in a TV remake of HELTER SKELTER) is a young film editor who winds up helming a troubled sci-fi film in Paris after 2 directors are fired (one is played by Gerald Depardieu). Model Angela Lindvall is pretty hot as the film within a film's heroine named Dragonfly. Giancarlo Giannini (who was in HANNIBAL the same year) is the Dino DeLaurentis (?) like producer. Sofia Coppola has a small role as his wife and Dean Stockwell, Billy Zane and John Phillip Law have supporting roles. I kind of wanted to like this movie but it's too boring and pretentious.



THE FAIRY FAITH-2001-This short film features interviews with people (mostly from Ireland) who believe fairies exist. A short history of their legend is also included. An artist shows off his "fairy inspired" paintings and another gentlemen uses a kind of divining rod to find "fairy energy" on a hilltop. I would have liked it better if they'd captured the little guys on film though.....



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PS-The title has nothing to do with this post. I just felt like using it!