Cinema at 3 A.M: ‘Messiah of Evil’ (1973)
❉ ‘Messiah of Evil’ falls somewhere between arthouse and grindhouse, early George Romero and late Mario Bava…
mysticism in film
Mysticism in Film: ‘Greaser’s Palace’ (1971)
❉ Robert Downey Sr’s Greaser’s Palace is one hell of a bonkers movie.
Mysticism in Film: ‘Heart of Glass’ (aka, Herz aus Glas, 1976)
❉ Werner Herzog contemplates the chaos of the stars.
Mysticism in Film: ‘Zardoz’ (1974)
❉ ‘The Gun is Good… The Penis is Evil!’ Here’s the nonsense that is Zardoz.
‘Zombie Lake’ reviewed
❉ Zombie Lake is a ludicrously watchable piece of laugh-a-minute hokum.
Mysticism in Film: ‘The Blood on Satan’s Claw’ (1971)
❉ Piers Haggard’s film is, along with The Wicker Man and Witchfinder General, one of the trinity of great British folk horror films.
Mysticism in Film: ‘Dr. Mabuse, The Gamber’ (aka, ‘Dr. Mabuse Der Spieler,’ 1922)
❉ The first film in Fritz Lang’s ‘Dr Mabuse’ trilogy is one of the great master-works of silent cinema.
Mysticism in Film: ‘Upstream Color’ (2013)
❉ Shane Carruth tackles the nature of god, the interconnectivity of all living things, the mechanics of love and relationships, PTSD and pig farming.
Mysticism in Film: ‘The Nude Vampire’ (aka La Vampire Nue, 1970)
❉ Jean Rollin’s lysergic fever dream combines magical feminism, paganism, eroticism, Sadean satire… and vampires!
Mysticism in Film: ‘Nostalgia’ (‘Nostalghia’), 1983
❉ Tarkovsky’s penultimate feature film is about faith, madness and frustrated dreams.