Gregory Smalley

"Creating an avant-garde skin flick with philosophical underpinnings, Metzger confused and frustrated critics, who struggled with how to classify 'Lickerish Quartet' when they didn’t outright dismiss it."--Enar Clarke https://t.co/fH9aRuWvmS

"'Monday's' [end] makes a bid for weirdness, deploying a series of massive tonal shifts and elaborate setpieces in quick succession... It’s a dizzying display, but if you thought you could draw meaning from it, Sabu yanks the rug out..."--Shane Wilson https://t.co/p9YKYOb37T

This week on Pod 366: a buzzy trailer for "One Battle After Another" and 4 physical media releases: sci-fi romance "Love Me"; 2000 anime "Summer Wars"; the "Branded to Kill"-adjacent "Inflatable Sex Doll of the Wastelands" (1967); "Mutant Aliens" (2001). https://t.co/UuGcFOF94t

"...when it comes to outrageousness, the garment takes a back seat to the craziness going on at the store... After the doors close, the saleswomen bring the mannequins to the back, remove the clothes, and gently bathe the dummies..."--Shane Wilson https://t.co/pWDqjuYsB1

"'Arcana' is basically a lost film... It’s a shame, as it reveals [Giulio Questi] in fine form... There’s donkey levitation, frog regurgitation, and [his] trademark obsession with chickens and eggs... not your typical Satanic horror film."--Enar Clarke https://t.co/6QrFAtANLS

"What are our readers thinking in constantly promoting this pedestrian hokum for inclusion on our List? Are you all a bunch of idiots who don’t get the mission of this site?... 'Tommy' is not only deaf, dumb and blind—but also lame."--Gregory J. Smalley https://t.co/zkUPG5dxVO

"...a dialogue-free adventure set in a cotton-candy dystopia whose heroine is a deaf and mute messiah seeking an interstellar artist-creator-god. This strangeness cannot be overlooked..."--Giles Edwards (@gilesforyou) on "Myth of Man" (@MythofManMovie) https://t.co/ikRdfcW1r2

The week's new weird releases and news on this week's Pod 366. A new animated project from Werner Herzog, @MythofManMovie, "Delicatessen"; "The Mansions of Madness"; "Anitviral"; and "The 10th Victim." https://t.co/rjXZwpdpij

"'Ash' isn’t bad, and it has its own pleasures, entirely sensory rather than intellectual... feels like a film that was made by someone with skill, but without a burning passion."--Gregory J. Smalley https://t.co/Q9R745EIfQ

"It is with reluctance that I recommend this, but I cannot disregard the mathematical theorem: Overblown ’60s romp misfire + Rosalind Russell cranked up to 11 + Built-in MST3K post-production tacked-on by nervous executives = Weird."--Giles Edwards https://t.co/Fs6ZhDI89z

"'Mansion of Madness' dives headfirst into the central preoccupation of Poe’s work, drawing the fine line between sanity and madness with a surrealist’s brush."--Enar Clarke. Now on Blu-ray from @VinegarSyndrome https://t.co/uqgD9lxYHl

"...proof that weirdness is in the eye of the beholder, as the behavior of these righteous performers can be interpreted as either wildly psychotic or charmingly quirky."--Shane Wilson on the 2003 Christian puppeteer short documentary "The Hands of God" https://t.co/0LKFahWtPA

Director Ryan Kruger ("Fried Barry," "Street Trash," @RyanKrugerThing) and actor Sean C. Michael (ditto, @seancmichael) join Greg and Giles this week on Pod 366 to discuss their pair of gritty genre movies set in the underbelly of sunny Cape Town. https://t.co/j4wMqrvCjS

"The wraparound is terrible, a shameless and poorly-though-out pretext for introducing scenes of sex and violence... These sleazy misogynist melodramas don’t deserve the cinematic style Ishii expends on them."--Gregory J. Smalley on "Love & Crime" (1969) https://t.co/6yl7LIVhAY

"Though hewing toward gritty realism, the plot hook—starfish drug—as well as the recurring hallucinations—narrated by a mystical dog—combine to create a singular something as strange as it is unsettling."--Giles Edwards (@gilesforyou) on "Lowlife (2012) https://t.co/wogp3PMKHs

"The eclectic style, along with the mysterious backdrop, ambiguous characters, and a uniquely bizarre murder weapon combine to create a Pop Art concoction with a seriously unhinged vibe."--Enar Clarke on the bizarre Spanish satire "Fata Morgana" (1966) https://t.co/nook7hgjAU

"Make no mistake, writer-director Roecker wants to shock you with his profane irreverence. 'Live Freaky! Die Freaky!' is a bouillabaisse of slanderous characterizations, insulting stereotypes, cheeky musical numbers, and puppet gore."--Shane Wilson https://t.co/EQtrh4hAqO