Halloween III: Season of the Witch
That was both strange and entertaining. It's a far cry from the rest in the series, even if it does contain a few subtle nods to the forefather that bares its name. And it's certainly unique in its approach. I liked it, but I have some issues with it. There are plot lines that are sloppy and never got resolved(what did Harry see and how did he lose his car? Where's Ellie? Why does the signal make the masks do...that?), but horror movies don't necessarily need to explain everything. But this one feels messy and complicated, and it's really out there.
Also, I know Carpenter was the producer, but I wonder if this movie's anti-capitalist themes influenced him in any way when he made They Live six years later?
Flesh for Frankenstein
Andy Warhol's Frankenstein movie isn't as gory as a lot of films nowadays, or even Halloween III's one big gore scene really, but it is still a gross film. It's about Baron Frankenstein(played by a young Udo Kier!) and his sister/wife Lady Frankenstein, and their perverse sexual desires and deviancy. Of particular note is the scene in which Frankenstein gets off while shoving his hands in his female monster's open abdominal incision, but that's not where it ends. It turns out the Baron wants to build a perfect Serbian male and female to reproduce and take over the world with an army of children who revere him as a god. Also, the Frankenstein children are sadists, his assistant is a crazy-eyed pervert who thinks sex involves disemboweling people, there's a heroic peasant guy boning his sister/wife, and the head he just attached to his male creation is asexual.
It's dark, perverse, and struggles with Udo Kier's accent(he got a lot better about it later). It's different at least, but there are several adaptations of Frankenstein I'd much rather watch before seeing this again.
