Okay, I’ll be the first to admit that 1966’s Gammera The Invincible is not really a horror film. Maybe there was a time when people found the idea of a giant, fire-breathing turtle to be scary but I kind of doubt it.
But let’s think about this! What better time is there to watch a movie about giant, fire-breathing turtle than in October?
Seriously, this is a fun movie and if you’ve got some time to kill this morning, I guarantee this movie will make you smile.
Plenty to look at this week, so let’s dive right in —
Berserker #1 is a recent sci-fi anthology from Breakdown Press in the UK that seems to be aiming to combine the sensibilities of 2000 A.D. with those of American “alternative comix.” Edited by Tom Oldham and Jamie Sutcliffe, it’s an impressive 64-page volume with a high-gloss cover that’s printed on heavy paper stock and is roughly evenly split between comics and text pieces. On the comics front, far and away the strongest strip is Anya Davidson’s “The Night Timers In : No Rest For The Wicked,” the first installment of a topical and dynamic long-form series that successfully splits its attention between genre action and “real-world” social and economic concerns, while Jon Chandler (with colorist Sarah-Louise Barbett) contributes an interesting “virtual reality” conversation strip that comes up a bit short in terms of its execution in “Sword Of…
I think I’d have an easier time trying to explain the video for Lullaby by The Cure with its spider-man on ceiling than this one.
Lullaby by The Cure (1989)
But this is one of several that was recommended by Lisa, so here’s what I see.
The poster for The Exorcist.
Looking stoned.
Things I would expect in Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Holy Mountain.
Tarman.
Getting hit with a paper airplane…
sends you to The Lawnmower Man dimension.
Doing this fight slow enough causes it to look like they are going to make-out.
Knocking over water will spawn three CGI watermen.
Changing angles teleports cups.
The evil T-1000.
Waxman.
Alternate Waxman.
And the three Jodorowsky things are back.
According to the lyrics, “Hum it, you will remember some of it/But if you solve it, you will remember all of it.” I can do the first, but not the second. I’m just going to assume that like the video for their song Hallways, this also has to do with internal tensions within this band and the prior band, The Unicorns. It’s just a feeling I get about both of them. I could be wrong.
Other videos by Islands seem to be just as weird even if they don’t have horror elements to them like this one appears to have.
Through the Shattered Lens 