_ _ _ _ __ _(_) __| | ___ ___ __ _ __| |_ _(_) ___ ___ \ \ / / |/ _` |/ _ \/ _ \ / _` |/ _` \ \ / / |/ __/ _ \ \ V /| | (_| | __/ (_) | | (_| | (_| |\ V /| | (_| __/ \_/ |_|\__,_|\___|\___/ \__,_|\__,_| \_/ |_|\___\___| | \ / __''''__ @@@@@@@@@@ _ | o o | _ _ @@@ | |________| @@@ o o \ / @ \| /__/ ____________________ ___ | | / / | ________________ | \ | __ | / / | | | | | _______| |____/ / | | VIDEO | | | / \....../ / | | VIDEO | | | / __ \____/ ___/ | | VIDEO | | | \ \ \ / | | | | | \ \ \ / | |________________| | | \___\ \ | |____________________|____| / / | | | ________ _ _ _ _ | | /// |________| | |________| _ _ _ _ | | |____________________|____| Movietips & Reviews BROTHER FROM ANOTHER PLANET John Sayles US 1984 ***** Cyber Afropunk classic. A mute escaped alien slave 'crash'lands in 1980s Harlem New York. Nobody knows he is an alien because he just looks like a normal human. But he's got some extra telekinteic special powers, he can read people's minds and repair machines just by touch . While all he wants to do is make sense out of his new world he constantly stumbles into problematic situations caused by the stupidity of mankind. Meanwhile he is hunted down by two space slave hunters who want to bring him back to his own planet. A wonderful unique sweet movie...perfect to watch with some shrooms or trippy weed. Some trivia: One of the Alien slave hunters is played by the director himself. You can watch the movie here LE ORME Luigi Bazzoni Italy 1975 **** This movie comes over you like some sort of dream wave, like you just popped a bunch of valium tranquilizers and are in a dozy weird trip, but not a particular pleasant one...Le Orme is intensely dark and saddening in some ways. A woman has tormenting dreams of an astronaut stranded on the moon mixed with foggy visions of a strange desolated seaside resort called Garma. Slowly approaching the brink of insanity she decides to visit the resort and finds herself into some more puzzling weird stuff. Desolated seaside resorts are ofcourse our favorite. There is a constant hypnotizing silence throughout the movie, when people do speak they almost do it in some kind of poetic soft focus whisper which is very soothing to the ears. Despite beying a very sad movie its also very calming and gentle. Watch it here WASTED! / NAAR DE KLOTE! Ian Kerkhof Holland 1996 ***** Wasted! stands alone as one of the strangest 'rave culture' movies ever made. One of the first movies shot entirely on crap 1996 digital cameras (and they were pretty crap back then!) A lot of the footage is saturated with the up most cliche early 90s digital movie effects and the camera man uses a lot of horrible 'edgy' constantly shaking angles. And the editing...well its basically all very reminiscent of a 1st year film school project by some guy that is permanently on drugs. But when you combine all this crap together you almost get some kind of stylistic masterpiece. There is no contrast of anything good stylewise so after a while you get used to the sometimes headache inducing images. Besides that its all absolutely fantastic. The cast is instantly lovable, even though played mostly by extremely amateuristic actors (it is after all a dutch movie so no surprise here). But somewhat mystifying, in the hodgepodge of performers there are 2 of the greatest dutch actors ever: Tom Hoffman who plays the awesome DJ Cowboy, who portrays the archetypically shallow house DJ and Hugo Metsers III who plays a vapid Tony Montana-supergangster-rip off. The story is pretty simple: a young couple moves to the big city (Amsterdam) and get lost in the rave scene with all the drugs and superficial cliches that surrounds this culture. Somehow this has aged very well and it has become a sort of cult classic... it is so strange, funny and a timeless sneer, almost satirical true commentary on the house music scene and its whole ridiculous superficial artificial vibe. You can watch it here SHIVER David Cronenberg Canada 1975 *** David Cronenbergs first feature length movie caused quite a stir in 1970s Canada, citing a magazine review: "Crammed with blood, violence an depraved sex the most repulsive movie i have ever seen". The Canadian parliament even questioned its bad depraved influence on society. Cronenberg was actually kicked out of his apartment after his landlord found out about all this and he had some trouble finding new investors for his next movies. Nowadays its a decent 'retro' body horror, a bit amateurish but with a fresh nice freaky overall ambience. The setting: A luxurious ultra modern condo tower on a newly developed Montreal suburb island. The problem: This is the place for a parasitical outbreak. Once the rather big parasitical worm invades the host it begins to suffer from an uncontrollable sexual desire. Sweet! You can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1Q7BeZkMBU DEMON SEED Donald Cammell USA 1977 ***** 1970s Cyberpunk classic. A scientist develops PROTEUS IV: an artificial Intelligence that will end all world problems. In its wish to study man's fragile mind and its mysterious body it takes over its creators house and keeps the scientists wife inside as hostage. For a disturbing purpose...Incredible special psychedelic space effects and frightening suspense. PROTEUS IV's voice is considered to be the zenith of dark A.I. voices...full with compassion, curiosity and emotion yet extremely sinister.