Reviews of two idiosyncratic films featuring characters from Barry Gifford’s Sailor and Lula series – David Lynch’s nightmarish Wild at Heart (Twilight Time) + Alex de la Iglesia’s graphic Perdita Durango / aka Dance with the Devil (Unapix).
Originally intending to produce a film version of Barry Gifford’s novel, David Lynch moved into the director’s chair after becoming enamored by the story of Sailor and Lula, two oddballs on the run from Lula’s mother because of their forbidden love and determination to preserve their ‘individuality’…
The second installment of Barry Gifford’s Sailor and Lula saga (after Wild at Heart) was given a similarly idiosyncratic treatment by director Alex de la Iglesia (The Day of the Beast) who crafted a stylized film which went even further in sex and violence than David Lynch’s own eccentric translation …
Part 2 of Video Tales includes a review of Jake West’s excellent 2010 doc Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship and Videotape (Severin / Nucleus) + scans of another 1980s video store catalogue!
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Britain’s infamous Video Records Act (VRA) in which 72 horror films (dubbed ‘video nasties’ by sleazebag media outlets such as the Daily Mail) were banned by the BBFC due to ‘depraved content,’ Severin Films have picked up the North American video rights to Jake West’s superb documentary…
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