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Also known as The Moon, and The Hooker Cult Murders.
If you want a 70s feeling movie, what do you put on? Some of those 70s standards could very well be defined by this movie, and you're hearing that from a guy who watched an entire 70s boxset! (Then I got distracted thinking about the 70s boxset and then I ended up on eBay putting the Pure Terror Mill Creek boxset into my cart. This is my life ladies and gents)
The Pyx is a weird, slow, dramatic film which reminded me heavily of some of the slower dramas on the 70s boxset way back when I reviewed that thing. The Pyx stars Karen Black as a heroin addicted sorta prostitute I think in a talky investigation story of a dead woman. On paper it sounds straight forward, in execution, it's completely unpredictable.
Mainly this is due to the intensity to which it follows Karen Black and imbues her with empathy and pathos, and that's bolstered by her incredible acting. Then it's also the weird songs she sings in the film which lend an ethereal, surreal quality to an otherwise pretty straightforward flick. It almost feels Lynchian in its weird two diametrically opposed vibes which somehow inhabit the same film.
Something in the creepy segments of this film are extremely affecting. This has a severe creepiness aspect to it that feels undersung in the great lists of influential 70s movies. Bizarre distorted voices sing as characters smile with disturbed evil, drugs kick in and the camera distorts around shadows and cryptic imagery. It's a very well done movie in that way.
This movie reminded me of Rosemary's Baby where it is a slow build and a ramping up story that goes further than you would think and sorta comes out of nowhere with what it depicts in the latter bit. This is for sure not talked about enough, and I enjoyed it quite a bit. 4 stars.
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