Work in Progress 2-3-12

Movie of the Week: Bloody Birthday

Its a dumb title, but give it a chance. When it distributed theatrically in Europe, some markets renamed it Children of the Eclipse, a more apt description. The whole premise is rooted in goofball trendy 70's astrology; three kids in a town are born simultaneously during during an eclipse in 1970. Saturn, which controls emotions, is blocked by the sun and moon. Ergo, anyone born during this eclipse lacks empathy, and a decade later on their tenth birthday they all turn homicidal.





The period details are excellent. Maybe its appeal for me is partially because I was also born around 1970, and by my tenth birthday I had a morbid-yet-gleeful obsession with horror movies. These youngsters are speaking my language. And it's very un-P.C, with the children getting into all sorts of pervy mischief (lots of gratuitous topless scenes) along with the atypical scenario of them killing their families for fun. It's like Phantasm, but with the protagonists and antagonists reversed.

Despite the grim theme, Bloody Birthday maintains an almost playful atmosphere. It doesn't hurt that the kid actors aren't at all convincing. Overall it's not well enough directed to be offensive or disturbing, so it plays out like a twisted episode of The Brady Bunch.





If you have Netflix, it's streaming over here.

R.I.P. Mike Kelley

Super-Fun Sterogram Site

GIF made with the NYPL Labs Stereogranimator

The New York Public Library has their archive of over 40,000 stereograms available online for you to convert into anaglyphs or animated gifs, all without leaving their website. After converting you can upload them back to their archive for others to enjoy, or share them with your friends. I made the animated gif above in just a few seconds. Try it here.

New Song: Motorized

Motorized 

an exercise in economy, recorded with just a moog source (multitracked)
and a tr-33 rhythm machine.

Movie of the Week: The People that Time Forgot

Saturday Morning Psilocybin

Movie of the Week: Motel Hell

Still as fresh as when I first saw it with my dad at the drive-in during its theatrical run in Summer of 1980, this grand guignol horror comedy has everything you could ask for in quality exploitation.

Movie of the Week: Slugs

The best of all killer slug movies is surely Slugs: The Movie, brought to you by Thee One and Only Juan Piquer Simón, Spanish director of the superb Pieces. We humbly present it here unedited and without commercial interruption:

Theranimals!