A psychotronic mixtape
When I was a lad I watched lots of weird, psychotronic movies very late at night. You know the kind of thing I mean — Italian zombie movies, French vampire movies, usually from the 70s, with weird proggy soundtracks etc, etc.
The problem with all such films of course is that the plots are almost invariably dreadful, the acting awful, and the exciting freak-out horror sections are separated by long stretches of narrative tundra. Wouldn’t it be great, I thought, if somebody took all the interesting bits- the psychedelic breakdowns, the grinning skulls, the orgy scenes, the flashing strobe lights and melting flesh and stitched it all together in one continuous montage of hallucinatory imagery? In fact, I thought, maybe I should do that, and start a business, selling videotapes of edited highlights of the world’s weirdest movies….It would be a bit like those old programs that stitched together excerpts of different Disney movies…
Alas, I was much too lazy. Nor, at the end of the day, was I all THAT interested in dedicating years of my life to such a dubious business venture. Then, the other night, whilst mindlessly stumbling through cyberspace I chanced upon this:
Fantastic! Amazing! Much better than anything I would have done! I must have one! What’s that you say? It’s already sold out?
CURSES.
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