Mini-Review: In terms of relativity, the longest film I've ever seen.

Mini-Review: A second viewing won me over. It's an important story presented with great beauty and wonderful acting. I got the sense Douglas had great love and total control of his film; he's the lanternist giving us a show. Characterizations seem a bit odd with the villains & upperclass being broad caricatures while the laborers are gently drawn, but in context it all feels right. I also love the stylized visual touches and fourth wall-breaking moments. The Australia sequence is like a great 2nd film.

Mini-Review: I'm a Hoban junkie, and this collaboration between he and animator David Anderson is very weird and very cool. It's sort of nonsensical, and narrated with stylized and broken English. A lot of work went into these 5 short minutes.

Mini-Review: Including but not limited to: Christopher Lee rambling about spirits and Shamans in irrelevant bookends, bad mustaches, wanton murder, scattered shots that look like they're from an art film, booze, a cruddy and disconnected sexual encounter, terrible monster makeup, Laurel & Hardy film posters, demon-summoning coma-vengeance, weird music, dog named Poopers, and no meatcleavers...I'll never forget you, Meatcleaver Massacre.

Mini-Review: Honest-to-goodness b-movie nonsense. Animals are going crazy due to excessive UV rays from ozone damage! HOORAY! This is an improvement over GRIZZLY, Girdler's previous evil animal picture, but it's by no means well made. There's bad acting, some iffy effects, an obvious camera reflection, a person in the background of a supposed deserted area, etc. But the music's cool, and the animal attacks are actually pulled off pretty well. Leslie Nielsen plays a crazy a-hole, too. Good fun.