May @ 366WeirdMovies: BEAST OF YUCCA FLATS and more!

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New this month:

LIQUID SKY (1982): Per Pamela, "While it looks pretty campy now, 1980's hipsters affirm that at the time of its release, Liquid Sky was considered to be the coolest thing by New Wave standards since 'smart drinks' and those wraparound mirrored 'spectrums' Devo used to wear."

TAXIDERMIA (2006): Certified Weird!  "Taxidermia will almost break the needle on your 'I never thought I'd see that in a movie' meter." Read it for the paragraph on erect penises alone!

THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE (FIRST SEQUENCE) (2009):  You read it on badmovies.org!  Now, read the exact same piece at 366weirdmovies.com!

MYSTERY RANCH (1932) & MYSTERY RANCH (1934): Alfred concludes (or does he?) his series on early B-Westerns with this dual review of the competing MYSTERY RANCHES.

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GOZU (2003): Certified Weird stuff from Takashi Miike!  "With its Eraserhead-like aura of personal alienation and fearsome psycho-sexual nightmares, bizarre identity shifts, and a cow-headed man as a mascot, Gozu's weirdness is never in doubt."

BIG MAN JAPAN (2007): This review of the Japanese mockumentary about a middle-aged, kaiju-fighting superhero comes courtesy of a very special guest reviewer---badmovies.org's own MofoRising!

BABA YAGA (1973): If you like Eurosleaze about lesbian witches trying to seduce a sexy high-fashion photographer by causing her to dream about Nazis and giving her a doll dressed in leather B&D gear that comes alive and kills off her models, then this is the film for you!

PASSING THE TORCH FROM MAYNARD TO AUTRY: Alfred continues his B-Western series with three short reviews describing how and why Gene Autry replaced Ken Maynard as king of the cowboys.

Enjoy!

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DILLINGER IS DEAD (1969): Certified weird! Nearly lost artifact from the Italian New Wave about a gas-mask designer who finds a gun wrapped in newspaper in his pantry, then spends an evening puttering around his apartment.  But the rule says, if you find a gun in Act I, you have to use it in Act 3...

CROWLEY [AKA CHEMICAL WEDDING] (2008): Pamela loved this story from Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson mixing Aleister Crowley and science fiction.  I hated it.  We both agree it's weird.

SUICIDE CLUB (2006): "...like a Noh theater performance, 'Suicide Club' chooses to keep actual events close to the chest, relying on long pauses and slow takes to create the mood . Noh theater has dancing and music to fill up the entire performance, though; 'Suicide Club' languishes with scenes that are filled with empty silence and shots that mean nothing."

FREAKS (1932): Alfred gives us the background on Tod Browning's masterpiece.

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THE BEAST OF YUCCA FLATS (1961): Just because it's bad doesn't mean it's not weird too!  "It's a failure, to be sure, but it fails in a way that no one had ever failed before.  To watch a Coleman Francis movie is to see the unique and pathetic soul of a man captured on film."  A Certified Weird selection!

PARIS JE T'AIME (2006): "Like any anthology film, Paris, Je T'aime is a box of chocolates, with some bittersweet bon-bons, a few of the dreaded coconuts, and one oddly shaped piece with a taste you can't quite place."

TALES OF ORDINARY MADNESS (1981): Before Barfly came this much stranger adaptation of the life of alcoholic poet Charles Bukowski, featuring his love affair with a prostitute into self mutilation with a giant safety pin---and some of the more bizarre sex scenes ever filmed.

RIDERS OF THE WHISTLING SKULL (1937): There's a mummy in this serial-style Western/adventure/horror hybrid starring the "Three Mesquiteers."  No one seems to give it a second thought.  The last in a series examining the Poverty Row B-Westerns.