Grant), and a power-mad wizard with a giant blue eyeball in the center of his chest are just some of the many delightful characters you’ll meet in this gnarly saga about the corruption of mankind, which strings together several centuries’ worth of vignettes about a magic blue flower like different vertebrae that belong to the same body.
THE SPINE OF NIGHT MOVIE
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'The Invitation' Review: Nathalie Emmanuel Gets Sucked Into a Languishing Legacy It’s nothing more than that, either, but there’s only so much you can ask of a movie in which Lucy Lawless voices a naked swamp witch who wears a human skull as a headdress and shouts things like “tremble before the immensity of the night!”Įven if “The Spine of Night” struggles to align its overarching story with the anthology-like shape that it takes, it’s still rare and rewarding to watch a film that makes so few bones about what it wants to be - all the more so when “what it wants to be” is a merciless blood-storm that feels like it was adapted from the most intense blacklight poster your best friend’s older brother used to hang in the basement of his mom’s house. An ultra-violent throwback to the halcyon days of hard fantasy, Morgan Galen King and Philip Gelatt’s “ The Spine of Night” is nothing less than an orgiastic ode to Ralph Bakshi, Gerald Potterton, and the other god-kings of rotoscope animation whose adult cartoons glistened from behind the beaded doorways of America’s video stores like forbidden relics that would melt the faces of anyone who dared to gaze upon their taboo wonders.
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