Friday, March 29, 2019

Slumgullion 59: Harlequin (1980)


Jim Donahue, writer for the Daily Grindhouse (and a Crapper from way back) joins Scott and Jeff for an all Unknown Movie Challenge show. This time, it's the 1980 oddity Harlequin (AKA Dark Forces), and this is a weird one, but let me try to set the stage...

Suppose...just suppose...that Rasputin lived in Australia, but wouldn't admit it? And suppose he was a birthday clown? And was played by a guy who used to be Jesus of Nazareth, but now just wants to be in Velvet Goldmine? And suppose David Hemmings from Blow-Up shows up as a British guy pretending to be an Australian pretending to be an American in a mid-70s paranoid political thriller like The Parallax View, and almost gets away with it, until the last moment when a drunken Broderick Crawford lumbers on camera and everyone starts to think that hmmm...maybe they're actually in an episode of Highway Patrol? In HELL!

Look, I can't explain, so just listen and let us, uh...explain it. Anyway...

Maids melt, doves cry, clowns float. You will never be the same...

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

ANNTI sez...

I ***SSSOOOOOOOO*** wanna see this shit!!!!!!

I know, normally, I only have so much patience for train-wrecks and/or multiple-vehicle pile-ups that call themselves movies or FILM, but this one sounds SO splendiferously, hilariously clusterfucked, I think that I could enjoy it on several levels. If I could find a hit of windowpane or finally get weed legalized in LA, or somebody would FINALLY share a shroom with me, I could enjoy it on KALEIDOSCOPE levels... Hey, a girl can dream, n'est-ce pas?

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

OMG, I actually WATCHED this one....

Scott said...

You're kidding...

On purpose?

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

I may have been drinking....

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