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Watchman:

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--- Quote from: ShadowDog on January 17, 2010, 10:09:28 PM ---Oh, I thought of one movie that's both worse than this and made less sense than this, Anthony Hopkins' Slipstream or whatever it was called.  That movie was fucking whacko.  But it's the only one worse than this.

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What was that about?  Is it out on DVD,seems like i should try and see it.

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It's been derisively described as "Anthony Hopkins ripping off David Lynch". I don't agree with the rip-off part, but essentially it's a non-linear experimental film that Anthony Hopkins made just for the hell of it. I'd describe it more as "David Lynch meets Tony Scott."

Watchman:

--- Quote from: Doctor Who? on December 21, 2009, 06:44:04 PM ---I just finished watching it and it sure wasn't a movie,what on earth was it?

Did it have a point?

Was it supposed to inform?

Did the director just do a bunch of drugs and then shoot whatever he saw?

WHAT ON EARTH WAS THIS NIGHTMARE?!

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--- Quote ---A raw, visceral cinematic experience unlike any other, Maniac offers a walking tour through the mind of a bonafide lunatic, distorted by fragmented scenes and ugly realities that mimic insanity's own warped perspective. This classic exploitation film is actually a Depression-era rendition of Edgar Allan Poe's The Black Cat injected with catfights (both literal and figurative), nudity, necrophilia (a reanimated corpse ravaged by a madman who thinks he's an orangutan), and the ingestion of one fresh eyeball.

"Indecent, immoral, will tend to corrupt morals, will tend to incite to crime." - New York Censor Board

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http://kino.com/video/item.php?product_id=669

Maniac's a notorious title amongst cult/exploitation/gore film aficionados, particularly infamous for the cat eyeball scene (pretty intense for 1934). I'm surprised Rifftrax did this, considering their general avoidance of "mature audience only" fare. The modern equivalent would be something like Last House on the Left or Bloodsucking Freaks, or the Dario Argento half of Two Evil Eyes.

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