Movies

Visitors from the Galaxy (1981) Yugoslavian SF comedy - an aspiring author finds his characters have become real - a female robot, two space children and their toy monster which grows to startling size and goes on a beheading rampage at a wedding celebration. The destruction is always humorous and never gruesome, and there is a strange amount of nudity - a crowd of people seeking the aliens remove all their clothes to show they mean no harm, resulting in the unique spectacle of a cave full of naked people with flashlights looking for aliens. Surprisingly, on a shelf in the author's apartment is the model time-ship used in the Czechoslovakian time-travel comedy Tomorrow I Will Wake Up and Scald Myself With Tea reviewed here earlier. Fairly amusing throughout, and interesting to see the locations and settings on the Adriatic coast. 6/10

Horrors of Malformed Men (1969) Japanese film based on the writings of Edogawa Rampo. (I continue to believe that the unavailability of his work in English translation is a global conspiracy against me personally.) This is completely indescribable and one of the strangest things I have ever seen - and you know I am no dilettante when it comes to strange. 10/10