#bizarre cinema

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📽️ Monkeybone (2001) 🍿

🎬 Directed by- Henry Selick🪑

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The pajama party scene in Monkeybone always filled my heart with wonder and whimsy as a kid. I used to pretend I was Kitty when I would play imagination with other kids.

I also attribute the painting featured in the movie to have subliminally inspired my art style/tastes a lot as an adult. ✏️ 🖤🎨

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📽️Harold & Maude (1971)🍿

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🎬Directed by - Hal Ashby🪑

✏️ Written by - Colin Higgins📃

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Love isn't always cookie cutter, but true romance is a dreamlike poetic dance of shared bliss amongst the suffering that surrounds the grim realities of the human experience. Harold and Maude expresses two opposing perspectives from two eccentric outsiders looking for deeper meaning in the drab/polished stage of society and it's black and white box of conformity. Together they challenge the status quo and as they question what it means to truly live and embrace each other's spectrum of light to shadow. This movie features songs by Cat Stevens. It is considered a cult classic and remains a beloved piece of cinema for many who have dark senses of humor and sweet centered hearts. ❤️

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Bizarre Cinema - Touching and Kissing

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From the Pioneers of Stop Motion Animation File: What did we do with our lives before YouTube came along? Seriously! This gem from 1930 has always been one of my all-time favorite animated shorts on YouTube. It features comedian Charley Bowers (1889-1946). and a "Metal Bird" that eats car parts, lays an egg and when the egg hatches, a fully-functioning Model T emerges. The animation is quite remarkable for 1930 - easily 50-60 years ahead of its time. I never really knew about Bowers or his work until I saw this film a few years ago. He has an interesting history. He was a silent film comedian who blended pioneering stop-motion animation with comedy. Apparently, when he died in '46, he'd already fallen into obscurity years earlier. Too bad, because he's incredibly creative. The DVD Journal published an interesting short article on his work that is worth reading. A collection of his films was released in a two-DVD set called Charley Bowers: The Rediscovery of an American Comic Genius. Maybe Bowers is finally getting the attention he deserves. 

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From the "Probably the Most Bizarre Thing I've Ever Seen, And I've Seen A Lot of Weird Shit" File: This clip is from a 1911 Italian film called L'Inferno. It shows old Satan himself devouring a human soul. The film is directed by Giuseppe de Liguoro (1869-1944). It is, without question, the strangest thing I've ever seen. The film debuted in Naples on March 10, 1911. And here's the most bizarre part: The film made a record $2 million (!!!) in 1911 money in the United States. Who'dathunk that a movie about the Devil eating human souls would bring in the big crowds in the USofA? Go figure!

Below: Nom-nom-nom-nom-nom. Gulp! Burrrrrrrp! Ahh. Any more a them human souls left in that bucket? Nope? Just gizzards?