March @ 366 Weird Movies: TUVALU, March Madness, more Ed Wood, PLAY TIME, RAGE

[Rev. Powell]

In like a lion...

YAKUZA WEAPON (2011): "Nayoko throws a boat, Shozo collapses an entire building because he doesn't want to walk up stairs, and Tetsu battles using the weaponized (and naked) corpse of his dead sister while he's hyped up on some neon blue wonder-drug."-AK

SHOCK TREATMENT (1981): "What would you get if you took The Rocky Horror Picture Show and stripped out Tim Curry's domineering performance as the mad scientist transvestite dominatrix, leaving behind only the theater-rock musical numbers and campy supporting players? (On the off-chance you don't see where I'm going yet, the answer is Shock Treatment)."

BLANK CITY (2010): "The Cinema of Transgression may not have produced any unquestionable masterpieces (or achieved much that John Waters hadn't done before, and done better), but it did have the all-important sex, graphic violence, and obscenity charges necessary to garner an enduring infamy..."

ISLE OF THE SNAKE PEOPLE (1971): "[Tongolele] belly dances with big snakes, spikes banana milk with venom, and intones 'offer your dreams to Damballah!' as she puts the voodoo hex on Anabella."-AE

[Rev. Powell]

Marching on...

HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (2001): Certified weird! "Naked Hedwig in the alley is like the star child from 2001."

MARCH MAD MOVIE MADNESS!: Gummo or Skidoo? 64 weird movies enter, but only one will emerge from this elimination tournament running throughout the month.

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ED WOOD, JR!: "It is safe to say that, in the future, there will always be the aspiring film geek who discovers his patron saint, Eddie, in the future. For you, for me, for those in the future, we now present THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO EDWARD D. WOOD, JR!"-AE

MODUS OPERANDI (2009): "Exploding cowboy heads! Random film stock switches from black and white to Eastmancolor! Pubic hair shaving! Debuting director Frankie Latina throws everything he can think off into Modus Operandi, including the kitchen sink and whatever other plumbing fixtures he can bum off his Milwaukee pals."

[Rev. Powell]

TUVALU (1999): "The weirdly erotic illicit panty-sniffing scene, with the boy and girl tugging on the coveted underwear through broken floorboards, looks like something Luis Buñuel might have come up if he'd directed fetish porn in the 1930s."

PLAY TIME (1967): "With little meaningful dialogue and a tendency to abandon characters to their fates, it is difficult for the audience to make a coherent narrative out of the stark, gleaming, geometric scenes that linger slowly and deliberately on the screen."-JU

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ED WOOD JR., THE NEW TESTAMENT: "Ed does not fake it, and by the end of the film he is completely wasted and dressed in a pink nightie, licking a girl's boots. This is an hour-long voyeuristic witness to an unbearable decline."-AE

RAGE (2010): "There's also (in my opinion) a fatal misstep in tone at the climax, where a character's rape that is meant to be ugly and uncomfortable is immediately followed up by a gory murder which is played for laughs."-LRH

And our MARCH MAD MOVIE MADNESS tournament has winnowed down the field of 64 weird movies to the Strange 16. You're invited to help vote for the Eccentric 8... Will it be BRAZIL or A CLOCKWORK ORANGE advancing to the next round?