Luis Bunuel presents to you a film about film-making, completely outrageous and self-conscious, meant to repel and not draw you in, and it does its job, so it gets a high mark. Not for the infamous eyeball-cutting scene, but mainly because Bunuel does it with a straight face when this is obviously a joke, perhaps a thumbing of the nose at the art crowd for expecting too much and therefore delivering this hilarity. We can call it pithy but it's also very over-dramatic.
But is it Horror, or genre at all? I say thee nay. Surrealistic in the extreme, but not disorienting in a fantasy manner, more like a music video for a Goth or metal band. While it's tempting to say all this adds up to genre, it just doesn't in my opinion.
Free online at 21 minutes and also the older 16-minute version.
But is it Horror, or genre at all? I say thee nay. Surrealistic in the extreme, but not disorienting in a fantasy manner, more like a music video for a Goth or metal band. While it's tempting to say all this adds up to genre, it just doesn't in my opinion.
Free online at 21 minutes and also the older 16-minute version.