Thermonuclear
heatwave meltdown in effect, but no
summertime-popcorn-Propaganda-Machine-brainwashing here at LERNER INTERNATIONAL,
no siree!
These five films are
thought-provoking and controversial, yet brush against the Genre Zone quite
successfully—after Blind Beast, we
look at the recently released Upstream
Color, the long-awaited follow-up to cult favorite Primer; then Larry Cohen’s 1977 exploitation biopic The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover,
best watched if you put yourself in a late-1970s mindset. We conclude with
reviews of lost early-1980s UFOlogy masterpiece Wavelength and its abducted aliens; finishing with Kuroneko, another Japanese film, with
bloodthirsty yokai seeking revenge.
Blind Beast (1969;
Yasuzo Masumura) WOW, what a film!
“Why can’t touching be an art
form?!?"
An insane blind sculptor
kidnaps a young model that he’s become obsessed with—in order to recreate the
“perfect “ female form in Yasuzo Masumura’s unique erotic horror masterpiece Blind Beast. The madman cries out, “A
new art form, by and for the blind!”—and he means it!
