Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda

[lester1/2jr]

  no, this isn't a lost Drunken Wu Tang sequel.  It's an experimental film from the late 60's made by people from the Warhol,  Velvet Underground  universe.  I don't have much info yet but  here is a clip which features some drony avant guarde music and a lady with a shell!


here's a review

J. Hoberman in the Mar. 16, 2006 Village Voice:

"Part 'Dr. Strange,' part 'Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome,' ['The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda' is] so High '60s that you emerge from its 20-minute vision perched full-lotus on a cloud of incense, chatting with a white rabbit and smoking a banana.... 'Invasion' is a languidly opiated costume ball in which an assortment of masked and painted bohos, some sporting outsize elf ears, loll about a candlelit, Mylar-lined set, blowing soap bubbles and nibbling majoon. ...In lieu of action, Cohen uses all manner of superimposition and prismatic image-splitting; his big effect, however, is the deliquescent Mylar reflection. What saves 'Invasion' from preciosity is the vague menace of Angus MacLise's improvised pan-piping, tabla-tapping, creature-yipping score. Although this masterpiece of Tibetan-Moroccan-Druidic trance music was reissued on CD several years ago, it truly blossoms in conjunction with the exotic smorgasbord served at Cohen's psychedelicatessen."

[Dr. Whom]

I find that proto-kiss make up very disturbing. Also, aren't 60s psychedelic films supposed to have gratuitous nudity?