Mardi Gras Massacre - 1978

 Yet another proto slasher, and another I've never really heard of mentioned.

I coulda sworn I'd seen this in some dumbass idea of "watch all the themed horror movies" especially if they were built around either a holiday or a bizarre device.  Microwave Massacre, Death Bed, New Years Evil, Valentine...you get it, the ones that're built around something specific.  How did this escape me?

These movies seem to get labeled a Video Nasty easier if they mix violence and sexuality, and also if they throw in some Satanism.  It made me think if Video Nasty was related at all to Satanic Panic, and they certainly were both in vogue at the same time, the DPP list was in 1984, in the works before that, and Satanic Panic started in 1980.  If people think we live in Conservative times now, remember this shit!  At least these eventually got released!

This is a extremely simple movie of this guy John trying to track down "evil" women and sacrifice them.  He picks up a girl, he takes her home and kills her.  He picks up another and does it again.  His method is to strap them naked to a black table and go into the other room, change into a weird Mayan-esque mask and outfit, come out with a little sword and cut them open, removing their heart.

The violence is advanced, I guess, and we have plenty of close-ups to scar our precious little innocent eyes. There's also some weird confluence of strange astrological sounding music, full frontal female nudity, and stiff weird acting to generally invoke an overall uneasy feeling which honestly, I will give quite a bit of credit for.  I sorta wish the movie had slightly more to it, because it is seriously just one thing for 90 minutes, but you know...oh well.

I also wonder how many of these have this in common, slightly hard to explain...Because of the amateur nature, they have both these strange upsetting moments but then they're still making a movie that they want to crossover, so they include some bizarre and lighter hearted 70s movie moments, such as a full musical sequence montage where people dance, etc, and its not that these are unsettling its more that the wide variance between the two totemic extremes of this film are SO much more than MANY movies.  It speaks to that "surprise" factor I've noted before, these are movies you cannot predict.

The Werewolf and the Yeti - 1981

 Also known as The Curse of the Beast, Night of the Howling Beast and Hall of the Mountain King.

This took me a while to get through because Fawsome, the streaming app, sucks.  Don't use it.  It has more ads than the others and didn't remember where I was, and then at one point when I went to resume this movie it started playing something else....  I also had to restart this movie twice.  I seriously considered not finishing this and leaving a review anyways.  

This is part of Paul Naschy's Werewolf series, a movie I've visited on this review site before.  These were a somewhat long running series of B or C par Spanish werewolf movies that were relatively modest in scale and success, but like some series just kept going.  

Again, this returns to my "surprise" theory about why these would be labeled as Video Nasty.  They felt like this was a fairly whatever schlocky Spanish werewolf movie, and were just not ready for it to have a bit more gore effects.  This is pretty mild overall, I will have to maybe rate the Nasties on a Nasty Scale, maybe from 1 meaning not nasty to 10 meaning mega nasty each?  This is kinda fun to make this up as I go along.  Anyways, this is like a 1.  One sorta weird skinning scene is I'm sure what did it, it has as much disturbing content as a average monster movie.

Perhaps obvious by the title, this is a movie where Naschy is turned into a werewolf in Tibet and has to fight pirates as well as a Yeti.  Well, supposedly.  In the last 5 minutes of the movie they have a 1 minute fight scene in the dark that sucks.  

The thing with this, is despite the hokey Halloween mask effects and some weird campy stuff going on, this just feels like an absolute chore.  Nothing is explained and nothing seems to matter.  Things just kind of happen and you just keep watching.  It’s basically the opposite of engaging.  I give it half a star.

The House by the Edge of the Park - 1980

 Ruggero Deodato may be the only recurring director on the Video Nasty list...we'll wait and see if there's others.  But I know he did Cannibal Holocaust, which I will rewatch for this list, I guess.

House by the Park is a slightly similar vein to Cannibal, being like a trial in extreme filmmaking.  Its in the argument "for" there being a Video Nasty list of prosecuted films versus the argument "against" which I'll try to put all these into camps of from now on.  Evilspeak is against, Blood Rites is for.  

The reason this is an experiment and that is "for" Video Nasty is that this movie is basically wall to wall sexual violence.  It begins with a rape and murder and kinda just goes from there as serial killer and rapist Alex, a twisted and sadistic psycho who invites himself to a customers houseparty where he and his friend Ricky begin to get teased by the people at the party.  They react in the way they know how: with violence.

If you're a girl in this movie, you will be nude, raped and possibly injured or killed.  Its just what the movie is, and it made me really think about casting.  I realize that Hollywood is the goal of many a star-eyed naive person, but what do they think of these roles, that this is a step in?  I just don't see this being the launch pad for a real star, and this is low budget Italian schlock, how much were they paid?  I just wonder sometimes.

This is also a dialed up less stylized Funny Games, a couple of movie I like both of, and certainly the sexually charged home invasion angle is very prevalent.  Straw Dogs, etc.  The goal of these in part is to shock, offend and titillate, and 46 years later this movie is still doing it, which in effect is the sign of immense success.  An unnecessary twist ending was a strike against, but in the end I give it 4 stars.  

Nasty Scale: 10/10

Evilspeak - 1981

 This is the second one of these Video Nasties where I have had a thought about the labeling and targeting these were subject to.  Much like in Blood Rites, is it a lot of the incongruity and frankly the unexpectedness of these films level of violence that gets them labeled as problems?  Here you have a seemingly normal sci-fi, fen enough fantasy film, why does it have a scene of pigs eating guts?  In Blood Rites its a Agatha Christie talky been there done that plot, why the grisly death scene?  

What I'm saying is that Texas Chainsaw was not on the Video Nasty list, and that's probably because they knew what they were getting in for, they were ready.  It didn't come of left field like it does in this movie and Blood Rites.  Its unexpected here.  Is that why they didn't like it?

Evilspeak I had seen before and had pretty much lumped in with the Ice Cream Man and a few other early Clint Howard B grade horror movies.  Movies that were capitalizing on his weird look and presence and yet real acting talent to have him be a top heel in some whatever level thriller.  

Which Evilspeak very much is, its some whatever level thriller, and thus the gut eating scenes are a bit pushing the envelope, this type of territory should be barely rated R, the type of thing you end up showing to 13 year old because its not that bad and you're a cool uncle or whatever.  The plot is some silly trash about Satan in a computer giving superpowers and theres a touch of nudity and its all very much the type of rated R thing people like me saw when they were 10...except for those few gore scenes.

Evilspeak is an interesting, out there thriller that is fun and off kilter enough.  Feels like the type of 80s trash we all grew up with.  2.5 stars.  Nasty Scale:  3/10

The Driller Killer - 1979

 Watching this and looking it up made me wonder, just how many directors who started out in porn are even left?  How about, how many directors that started in porn and achieved some degree of mainstream success?  It can't be all that many.  Truly a dying era.

The Driller Killer was the first real film of Abel Ferrara, a director who is an art house fave and had a few slightly almost mainstream successes.  He had directed porn before this and it was a pretty normal transition at this point to switch over to low budget horror.

Ferrara himself stars as Reno Miller, a mouth breathing weirdo who is sorta uninterpretable.  He seems like he's on some sort of drugged out trip, things affect him in bizarre ways.  Dissonant rock music, sexual misunderstandings, fussing over hanging a painting, homelessness.  These seemingly normal things just keep making him have some sort of break from reality which eventually turns him into the homicidal Driller Killer.

There's moments where talent shows through this thing, mostly in some editing choices and tinges of atmosphere, but overall this is a terrible slog.  A lot, maybe 50% of this movie is just a terrible band playing badly engineered rock music.  Another 20% is random people having inane, pointless, slurred conversations.  A mostly unexplored killer doesn't exactly give you a rock to hold on to either.

When the kills come, they're fine and an easy highlight to this, but that's mostly because the rest of this is almost pure drivel.  It made me think of how movies could be described by just some moments, and someone might come out of this proclaiming it had violence, gore, nudity, lesbian sex, mental disease, crossdressing, filth, etc.  What they would not say is those are 20 seconds each and the rest of the film is just stupid bullshit.  I'll give it 1 star.  Nasty Scale: 1/10

Blood Rites - 1968

 Also known as The Ghastly Ones. 

Well, no promises. That’s my intro to this, a random entry I could find online from the infamous DPP list of Video Nasties. These were the 39 actually prosecuted movies that ended up in court. Luckily a lot of them crossover with other things I’ve watched, such as a bunch of these are also Zombie series movies. Here’s the list.  Underlined titles are what I have seen, complete with links:

1. Absurd also known as Monster Hunter, Anthropophagus 2, and Horrible
2. Anthropophagous: The Beast also known as The Grim Reaper, Man Beast, Man-Eater, and The Savage Island
3. Axe also known as Lisa, Lisa and California Axe Massacre
4. A Bay of Blood also known as Twitch of the Death Nerve, Blood Bath and Bay of Blood
5. The Beast in Heat 
6. Blood Feast 
7. Blood Rites also known as The Ghastly Ones
8. Bloody Moon 
9. The Burning 
10. Cannibal Apocalypse  also known as Invasion of the Flesh Hunters
11. Cannibal Ferox also known as Make Them Die Slowly
12. Cannibal Holocaust 
13. The Cannibal Man 
14. Devil Hunter
15. Don't Go in the Woods 
16. The Driller Killer 
17. Evilspeak 
18. Exposé also known as House on Straw Hill
19. Faces of Death 
20. Fight for Your Life 
21. Flesh for Frankenstein also known as Andy Warhol's Frankenstein
22. Forest of Fear also known as Toxic Zombies and Bloodeaters
23. Gestapo's Last Orgy also known as Last Orgy of the Third Reich and Caligula Reincarnated As Hitler
24. The House by the Cemetery 
25. The House on the Edge of the Park 
26. I Spit on Your Grave also known as Day of the Woman
27. Island of Death also known as Devils in Mykonos and A Craving For Lust
28. The Last House on the Left 
29. Love Camp 7 
30. Madhouse (but not the one I watched!) also known as There Was a Little Girl
31. Mardi Gras Massacre 
32. Nightmares in a Damaged Brain also known as Nightmare
33. Night of the Bloody Apes
34. Night of the Demon 
35. Snuff 
36. SS Experiment Camp also known as SS Experiment Love Camp
37. Tenebrae also known as Unsane
38. The Werewolf and the Yeti also known as Night of the Howling Beast
39. Zombie Flesh Eaters also known as Zombie and Zombi 2

This is mostly so that I do not have to keep looking it up myself.  So like I said, a lot of the Zombie series is on here and a lot of other random stuff I've seen like The Burning and Night of the Demon. 

Plot wise this movie is the admittedly overdone "buncha people can inherit a fortune if they stay overnight in the creepy house" or whatever.  Fuck, I wonder what the originator of that is?  We've seen it before.  Its completely incongruous with the insanity of the first 5 minutes in which video nasty becomes apparent as a insane man with a meat cleaver murders two people in the woods.  

Which I'll say...is fucking NUTS with sped up footage and really great effects, its downright unsettling and no wonder it was censored!  And that nutcase is the helper at the house the family has to stay at.  A few minutes later we have ahead of its time topless scenes and Texas Chainsaw-esque disturbing mental disease and/or weirdness which is not to be underrated in terms of creep factor.  There's also a pretty violent rape scene that begins later and its like....yikes.

This is barely 70 minutes long and with all that stuff going on it flies by.  This feels like half a talky Agatha Christie early 60s "horror" and half a mid late 70s exploitation flick.  No wonder they freaked out!  The insane parts are really insane and then the rest is calm as a pleasant stream.  Which is to say its uneven 1000%, it barely gets more uneven than this.

But there is one more thing to say, and I would not have expected it.  This is also a huge proto slasher.  Absolutely.  This has a body count with a mysterious masked killer, it has a big reveal at the end with a exposition dump concerning the "why" of it all, it is hugely in that vein.

This movie is many many things, and all in all that's jam-packed into 70 minutes and suffice to say like, you will have a good time.  With one of the many things this is.  So I dunno what else to give it...?  

Nasty Scale: 9/10

Trollhunter - 2010

 Found footage came and went, and what were the standouts from this genre? Beyond Blair Witch, Paranormal Activity, and Cloverfield I would argue that this was the only other big one.

I heard about this movie pretty soon after it had come out as a comedy documentary Norwegian found footage film about trolls and I was immediately interested. I believe I rented this on Netflix DVD and have watched it a few times, and it’s been a few years so I re-watched it now. Trollhunter is truly the perfect mix of Christopher Guest meets found footage horror doc.

Early on in the film, we meet the three filmmakers, main character Thomas boom mic operator Johanna and cameraman Finn. They are investigating the poaching of bear, and they stumble upon a man they think might’ve done it, only to discover he is in fact something far more interesting than a common poacher.

The real reason for the crossover success of this is that this movie moves. I paused it just now and I’m 15 minutes from the end and I thought I was maybe 15 minutes into the movie. It has a fantastic pace and it really grips you with compelling characters and well written dialogue. This is not laugh out funny but it does have a funny wit to it, and one that is not like very much else I’ve seen.

They clearly had a pretty low budget and were selective about when to use CGI and in what way, and it really lends itself to the filmmaking style.  Lots of night shoots, nightvision cameras, darkness, and shadows. This is an expertise use of easy effect done cheaply that looks fantastic and has aged extremely well.

Abominable - 2006

 My little marathon kept going this morning with 2006's Abominable, one of many movies with that name.

Where to start...maybe with the first scene.  The scene in which some people go outside because of a noise and find some dead animal on the ground ripped apart and discover Bigfoot tracks in the snow.  The snow that was not there the entire time until now, suddenly is about 3 inches thick on the ground and I repeat WAS NOT in any previous shots.

This is an early indication of what's to come.  Matt McCoy stars as a handicapped guy going with his drunk abusive caregiver to a remote cabin for some R&R.  Once there, a group of women come to the cabin next door for party weekend and the abusive caregiver goes to the town to get drunk.  Alone in the cabin, McCoy start to see and hear bizarre things in the woods.  Could it be the CGI Sasquatch creature we catch a glimpse of?  

This is prime SyFy original movie territory back when that was the place for this sorta trash.  Younger me would'a cracked a Pabst and watched this in a back to back marathon with a few others on a Friday night.  Modern me is amazed that this is only 30 years after those 70s ones I just watched, and wondering where some movie trends started and why and how.  Like the credits in this movie specifically were very much "of the moment" in 2006, but where did that start?  And is it still done, just in places I don't see?

Abominable is paper thin, clearly they did not have enough script of plot for a full movie and a lot of the time you're just watching the main character look at the girls with binoculars because there isn't anything else to fuckin' film, so I guess that's what's happening. The monster looks like total shit and there is not enough nudity or blood and guts to have it be that much fun.  So its just a straight 2.

Curse of Bigfoot - 1975

 Also known in the 90s as Teenagers Battle the Thing.

Who knows, dude.  Its the mood I'm in. That's why this sudden spring of Bigfoot movies.  This one I had at least seen something from or about, because this insane mask I had seen before.

When this is the level of special effect for your Bigfoot creature, the rest of the movie ain't going to be outshining it to a significant degree.  And boy, does this movie feel in a whole different ballpark of budget and capability than previously watched Bigfoot movies.  Sure, 1970s Bigfoot was dark and poorly acted, but this is like comparing that to vacation footage.

It could be this was a Rifftrax and I may have watched that at one point, but the plot of this was not familiar.  Plot wise, a teacher brings in an expert to talk to some students about ancient creatures, lore, and such.  The students embark upon an expedition and find a sealed tomb type area with a seemingly dead ancient creature in it.  The breaking of the seal brings it back to life, and it begins running amok and causing chaos.

This movie is certainly a lot more of the type of thing you would see on Rifftrax.  Its really two bit in nature, with extremely unchoreographed and unpracticed scenes that play out with makeup like what's seen above.  This is a fun trashy movie, its just SO bad dude, and I mean I love it, its just like WOW.

Apparently this was a movie made in 1963 which was expanded into this full length thing, which was released in 1975, and somehow also gets stamped with the years 1976 and 1978.  Its like no year wants to claim it.  But put it on late at night and enjoy the sleeze.  3 stars.

Update: I have since realized I watched this before and reviewed it. So who cares. It can have two reviews and two ratings. None of this matters. 

Sasquatch - 1976

 Also known as Sasquatch, the Legend of Bigfoot.

Why not do a double feature, I ask.  I started writing this because the narration says as if its nothing "After 3 months in the forests..." and I'm like.  Fuck.  You lucky fucks.

This movie is both a psuedo-documentary about Bigfoot as well as a love letter to the area in which Bigfoot supposedly lives, the Pacific Northwest.  Filmed outside of Bend Oregon standing in for British Columbia Canada, this talks at length about the beauty and unspoiled nature of the scenery, and you can tell that its earnest in its adoration for the area.

I'm reading a history book about the Pacific Northwest by Carlos Schwantes, which I would recommend to everyone.  The book more of a historical look than this fiction movie obviously- but legend, lore, and the culture that manifested in the area decades later is still interesting in its relevance to that.  This is yet another chapter in the bizarre history of the area, to be filed under a fascinating section of perhaps a different book, one about human psyche and human incongruity with nature.

We follow a rough and tumble group of backwoods explorers on a many months long journey on horseback through the PNW, and their various adventures therein.  Some minor Bigfoot threats aside, its about the nature, the animals, the pioneer feeling of exploring a forest unspoilt by humanity.  Its also set in my favorite part of Canada, the northern British Columbia, where vast miles of forest feel like they have never been set foot in by man, and are perhaps one of the last remaining places like that.

I'm bringing a lot of this to the movie from my own life, but there is a love and honesty present in this film no matter what, and its a more professionally shot, lit and acted than the previous entry Bigfoot.  Which I think elevates this to 4 stars.

Bigfoot - 1970

 Its odd how I specifically remember searching out Bigfoot movies at several points in my life to watch them, yet somehow this one escaped me?  I finally got it though.

Bigfoot had quite a cast, which Ebert even remarked about in his review.  John Carradine as a typical redneck yokel, film legend John Mitchum, Touch of Evil's Joi Lansing, and John Mitchum's son Christopher.  I dunno, must've meant more to Ebert than it does to me.  

Bigfoot is a pretty low budget, pretty damn insane 70s low brow redneck movie.  Bigfoot captures some women for breeding, and they blankly stare as they discuss the fact they're going to be raped by Bigfoot!  They seem to not care at all, unless Bigfoot comes up to them, in which case its screaming screaming screaming, which will have you reaching for the mute button.

Super grainy and awful quality, there is just something about this which is super fucking fun.  Its hackney, its dumb, it has a shiteating grin on its face.  But its something that if you get on its level and watch with extra buttered popcorn and maybe a cocktail or some friends, you'll have a damn blast.  Its not a great movie but it certainly is great to me.

All Through the Night - 1942

 Something in New Zealand made me think about Humphrey Bogart and I mentioned him to my family and it turns out they’re all fans also! We traded favorites and least favorites and it put me in the mood to watch some of his films again.

All Though the Night is described on the back as a proto film noir, and also as a loose satire of the type of films that it itself is. Those would be detective adjacent, mob adjacent films, noir adjacent character stories involving edgy characters, and situations that build to a climactic finish.

Bogart plays a man named Gloves who is a regular at a restaurant where he gets cheesecake every day. One day, the man that makes his cheesecakes is killed, and that brings Bogart into a bizarre situation of exploitation and Nazi presence in his little town. Gloves will have to use his cunning and his connections to solve the case.

The back of the movie box over sold the satire a little bit as well as the meta aspect a little bit. I shouldn’t have gotten my hopes up, but they truly made it sound like a romp and it wasn’t really. At an hour and 45 minutes it’s perhaps 30 minutes a little long, This movie made me miss some of the quick A to B old films that I normally like. 

This isn’t that bad and it certainly is unique among the types of things that was coming out. Maybe they should just rewrite the back of the box. I’ll give it four stars although I do think it’s a little bit too long no matter what.

Tombs of the Blind Dead - 1972

 Also known as. The Night of the Blind Terror and.. Revenge from Planet Ape???  This was apparently trying to cash in on the Planet of the Apes success and it sent me down a research hole trying to find if other movies did that and I couldn't find it and gave up.

The first of this foursome I've always wanted to see prompted a thought in my head.  Could be that one of the reasons these movies remain is that they established a new "type" when it came to zombies.  These are specifically undead templars, who ride horses and wear their cloaks and use swords.  They are specifically blind too, and this puts them in a strange realm between mummy and the skeleton warriors from some of the Ray Harryhausen Sinbad type movies.

Now, I loved Harryhausen as a kid and I love it now, even if these movies are not claymation, the movement and the style is probably directly in homage to those skeletons, and its like someone saw those movies and saw those skeletons and said "lets make a movie just based on these guys."  Lets!

A long preamble has a budding lesbian relationship end when one of the women jumps off a train, escapes to a church way out in the middle of nowhere, and gets killed by the templars who raise from the grave.  The group of friends she had go searching for her and get stalked by the templars themselves.

Again, the atmosphere of this thing is incredible.  This has long scenes of slowly moving skeletal creatures with chanting songs and strange slowed down eeriness and its used often, but does not get old because FUCK does it work!  It kicks ass, every moment you're watching that you're just in and there's no where else you'd rather be, nothing else you'd rather be watching.

Its a good intro to a series which I know gets better, so I'll give this one a 4.

Island of the Fishmen - 1979

 Also known as Island of Mutations, Something Waits in the Dark, and Screamers.

What is this, a Zombie movie?  With these alternative names?  Apparently this movie was slightly edited and shipped around to several different countries, with alternate names, and none of the versions were very successful.  Maybe the apt name should've been something like Lipstick on a Pig.

Fishmen stars Barbara Bach from James Bond, and in one of the versions it had a clunky sounding scene with Cameron Mitchell and Miguel Ferrer edited into the beginning.  I don't remember if my version had that, honestly.  I can't be bothered to check, either.  Okay I did check and yes I watched the US version that had these two in the beginning.

From the director of Torso comes this almost Lovecraft feeling story of a lost isle that has fish human hybrids on it, ala Dagon.  Barbara Bach and some others land there and its shadowy, inept chaos from there on in.

Shot with a negative lighting budget, the real question you'll be asking yourself is what is going on.  Now, this is not the worst thing I've seen by far but yeah its just another example of a truly amateur low budget schlockfest.  No nudity and no real violence either, its another one of these as well where I ask, could this be rated like PG?

Its fun low brow trash, I give it 2.5 stars.

The Demon - 1979

 This movie has more years on its title than almost any I've seen.  1979, 1980 1981, and 1985 are all seemingly valid.  Also known as Midnight Caller.

A evil shadowy figure haunts peoples dreams with claws on his hand...what is this?  A Nightmare on Elm Street?  No, its the other dream-haunting claw hand guy, The Demon.  Cameron Mitchell is this movie's John Saxon, the elder statesman brought in to fight the demonic entity.  He'll protect the leagues of topless women that The Demon is after in this strange flick from South Africa.

Shadow Killer or Shadow Demon could easily have been the title cause holy crap is this movie dark in color.  Shadows fill frames and the killer or main character or anyone are all bathing in darkness in this movie.  The Demon especially, who by the way goes completely unexplained, is only seen somewhat in the light at the end, also wearing a mask.  Not complaining, keep the horror movies dark is my middle name, just sayin'.

A bit slower than its 1984 cousin, this movie is certainly a bit more interminable and plodding.  We don't really have lore or explanation here, which also makes it feel that way.  So I can't really land on good or bad, it was certainly fun though, so I give it 3 stars.

Wake in Fright - 1971

 As soon as I started watching Australian movies, I knew that I would need to rewatch this one, a movie I’ve meant to rewatch for years now and that I finally now got around too.

It’s not just that it stars Donald Pleasense and it’s also not just that it’s a defragmenting story and study of masculinity, it’s also a very interesting dark film that has a lot more themes on a second viewing. There’s a lot I forgot about this and there’s a lot that I love about this movie, a movie that I saw referred to online as the best film ever made in Australia.

Straightlaced school teacher John Grant gets into gambling in a drunken night and loses all his money. His only friendships are a bunch of backwoods kangaroo hunters in this beer soaked sweat soaked underbelly of society study about masculinity in general. 

The strange hazing rituals, the homoerotic parts of masculinity, the ways in which we measure ourselves and each other, the embracing of the old and the new, the mixture of intellectual versus redneck, and certainly the need and want to fit in all are illustrated perfectly in a relatively light on dialogue film. 

Perhaps the only movie to have Donald Pleasense as a sex symbol, he has a bizarre, charismatic appeal, despite never really knowing what he’s talking about.  Thel other characters all sort of float around in a mysterious haze of potential threat or best friend. It is an odd feeling for this movie and one that makes you not really understand what’s happening with the main character or with anyone else, but not in a way which bothers you. Rather in a way that makes you have a certain amount of acceptance - Not necessarily resignation just acceptance. 

Films in general can allow for us as the audience to put ourselves in the shoes of a character, and I think that this is something that is only helped by ambiguity and minimalistic dialogue. I think in a certain way it’s the quietness of older films that helps us attach ourselves to them, it is their mysticism and their innate ambiguity that makes us pair ourselves to the happenings of the film. In that way, this movie feels extremely identifiable without having any amount of things in it that anyone can actually relate to. But feeling like an outsider, feeling social pressure, feeling mixed sexual desires, and feeling lost as major themes, anyone can attach themselves to in this. 

The feeling of this film is the feeling of a moment, those weird ones that you can’t really explain that stick with you despite the fact that nothing happened in them. Things do happen in this film and there are things that would stick with anyone but the same time their meaning and their interpretation is completely up for grabs. In that way it’s a masterpiece of strange evocative motion while being a little thin on explanation and plot, it’s certainly a great vibe film. 5 vibe stars.