Daily Archives: October 26, 2023

Horror on the Lens: Baffled! (dir by Philip Leacock)

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

Leonard Nimoy is a race car driver who can see into the future and who uses his powers to solve crimes!

Seriously, if that’s not enough to get you to watch the 1973 made-for-TV movie Baffled!, then I don’t know what is.  In the film, Nimoy takes a break from racing so that he and a parapsychologist (played by Susan Hampshire) can solve the mystery of the visions that Nimoy is having of a woman in a mansion.  This movie was meant to serve as a pilot and I guess if the series had been picked up, Nimoy would have had weekly visions.  Of course, the movie didn’t lead to a series but Baffled! is still fun in a 70s television sort of way.  Thanks to use of what I like to call “slow mo of doom,” a few of Nimoy’s visions are creepy and the whole thing ends with the promise of future adventures that were sadly never to be.

Enjoy Baffled!  Can you solve the mystery before Leonard?

Music Video of the Day: Prison Sex by Tool (1993, directed by Adam Jones)

Posted on by Jedadiah Leland

When a song has a title like Prison Sex, you can be sure that it won’t be a happy one.  Tool’s Prison Sex is a song (and a video) that was judged to be so disturbing and depressing that MTV actually removed it from its playlist after viewers complained that it was freaking them out.  Despite removing the video, MTV still nominated for a Video Music Award for Best Visual Effects and the video was later riffed on by Beavis and Butt-Head.

The video was directed by Adam Jones, who is also Tool’s guitarist.  Along with his musical interests, Jones also worked in stop motion animation and was even a part of the team that brought the dinosaurs to life in the original Jurassic Park.  This video makes good and macabre use of his talents.

Enjoy!