‘Inside every artist lurks…a
madman’
Walter Paisley, an unappreciated
waiter serving in a bohemian café full of artistic crowd. He’s having an
uncontrollable itch to be a creative artist. Under a frustrated circumstance
one day, he encounters an accidental death of cat and this brought him an
instant artistic recognition the very next day. What follows is turned out and
transformed him into a macabre professional sculptor.
Roger Corman’s this brilliant
underrated film is a surprising cult treat! Oh and I can’t stop loving surprise
like this! The film is a bizarre fun with ingredients sorted from multiple
genres. The film is noir, horror, thriller, black humor & musical all
packaged into one. It is as per its one of tagline suggests ‘comedy of errors
turned into comedy of terrors.’
The film manages to poke fun at
art in general especially aimed at sense of realism & beatnik generation.
With its 65 duration, the film was shot in just 5 days and yet it brilliantly
creates a kind of macabre screen thrill from beginning to end. Dick Miller is
just pleasure to watch; even if nothing else he will stay in memory for his
role of Walter here. And I just love the character of Maxwell and all the
artistic punch line dialogues he represents on screen. Pay your ears to him when it begins.
Recommendation of the week.
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