My Favorite Movies

Frames within frames within frames.

Doktor Faust is tapped to stanch an onslaught of lesbian granny vampires in Mittel Europa.

New Wave vaudeville, courtesy of the brothers Elfman. Herve Villechaize as Emperor of the Fourth Dimension, Danny Elfman as the Devil.

UA gave Dennis Hopper 5 million dollars to do drugs in Peru with Peter Fonda and Dean Stockwell, and it shows.

Strikingly gorgeous, notably incoherent and improbably brilliant. Three thumbs up.

Looks totally fake, in a good way. A high water mark of German expressionism in Hollywood.

Rooster Cogburn: Mr Rat... My writ here says you must stop eating Chen Lee's cornmeal forthwith. It's a rat writ, writ for a rat, and this is lawful service of same. See, he doesn't pay any attention to me.(Shoots rat.)

Mattie: Outside is the place for shooting!

RC: I'm serving some papers

Mattie: That was your job in the first place!

RC:You can't serve papers on a rat, baby sister. You've got to kill him or let him be. ... Judge Parker... Old Carpetbagger! But he knows his rats. We had a good court... ...until those pettifogging lawyers moved in. The ratcatcher's too tough on the rats! "Give them rats a fair show," they say. What fair show did they give old man Potter? Tell me that. Finer man never lived.

Straight bible narrative from atheist-homo-commie auteur Pasolini.

The angry Christ will make you shit your pants. Scary.

A dark and stormy night. Car breaks down in the Welsh countryside, and the occupants take refuge in a large creepy house.

There, they meet more improbable refugees, a hyperactive poofter and a mute butler (Karloff). A comedy of manners ensues, and weirdness builds throughout the night to a frenetic, eerie, and indescribable crescendo.