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MEXICO!!!
20h15, Mexico 1968, english subtitles
"Fando & Lis" is Alejandro
Jodorowsky's first full length feature film. Like the 1930 film "L Age D
Or", the 1967 premier at the Acapulco film festival in Mexico led to
riots. The images shocked many viewers and Jodorowsky had to flee for
his life. The film's story concerns Fando and his crippled girlfriend
Lis. Fando is very cruel, but sometimes sympathetic. He pushes Lis
around in a cart through many strange and surreal scenarios. We also
witness flashbacks of Lis as a child loosing her innocents to the
corruption of adults. Fando has flashbacks of his father and the
soldiers which took his dad away from him. For the two main characters,
it's a bizarre world gone mad. Fando & Lis are on a journey to the
miraculous city of Tar. Lis is convinced she'll be healed of her
physical disorder and able to walk again. This film is based on a short
play by Fernado Arrabal. and at time feels like a follow up to the later
filmed "Viva la Muerte". Although shot in B&W viewers are treated
to many bizarre images including; a burning piano, body painting, drag
queens, mud people and other assorted strangeness. "Fando & Lis"
holds its place in the hall of fame of weird films. You must see it to
believe it.
ca. 22h15, Mexico 1978, english subs.
In the 1800s, young orphan Justine (Susana
Kamini) arrives at a repressive convent where Alucarda (Tina Romero) has
spent her life since infancy. They become fast friends and, while
frolicking in the woods, encounter a sinister gypsy (Claudio Brook) who
warns them about a nearby cemetery, the devil's stomping ground. After
unleashing a malevolent power inside one of the tombs, Alucarda proves
to be the most susceptible upon returning to the convent. The gypsy then
magically reappears and initiates the girls into the ways of the horned
one, courtesy of a blood rite and a sylvan orgy. Potentially bisexual
Sister Angelica (Tina French) realizes something's amiss and decides to
stage an exorcism, though the ceremony of tying the girls naked to
crosses proves to have disastrous results. The local physician, Dr.
Oszek (also Brook), finds himself unable to explain away the bizarre
deeds occurring within the convent walls, which escalate when Justine
seems to be killed... or does she?
A long way from those K. Gordon Murray Mexican horrors for the kiddies,
Alucarda is one of the more striking and shocking south of the border
gothic fests from the golden age of cinematic sleaze. Replete with nuns,
devil worship, blood baths, and sadistic religious fanaticism, this is
one drive-in jewel ripe for rediscovery.
Moctezuma, a collaborator with Jodorowsky (who
claims Moctezuma stole money from him to make his films!) and one of the
creators of the infamous Panic Theatre, has created a minor masterpiece
with ALUCARDA. Those who associated Mexihorror with Santo monster pics
are in for a rude awakening with this baby. But the film is still just
as wild as those films and then some! As Michael Weldon points out in
his review for the film in Psychotronic, you'd be hard-pressed to find a
horror film with more screaming. There are bloodier horror flicks and
of course those with more nudity, but ALUCARDA is so jam-packed with
both that even the most jaded fan will be rubbing his eyes in disbelief!
Satanic rituals, coffins filled with blood, sadomasochistic
flagellation amongst priests and nuns, nasty decapitations, and a fiery
finale complete with Satanic scripture and multiple instances of
spontaneous combustion that must have influenced DePalma's CARRIE, this
flick is simply never boring! Some viewers have found fault with the
script not deciding who the villains are, the church or the girls, but
this adds a schizophrenic element to an already delirious viewing
experience!
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