Synopsis

Henry Spencer (Jack Nance), living in a decaying industrial center, gets his girlfriend Mary X (Charlotte Stewart) pregnant. After meeting her odd family, he finds himself in the care of their deformed child in his small, dark apartment.

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I saw Dune upon its debut in the early eighties, after having read the Frank Herbert book. The biggest complaint at that time was the film made little sense if one hadn’t read the novel; a sentiment I totally agree with. Dune is an epic, complex world, featuring several factions from different planets fighting over a mysterious spice on the desert planet Arrakis. Mix in prophetic religion, mysticism, truly warped imagery, and gigantic alien worms, and it’s confusing to the initiated. Watching the film version with no previous familiarity almost certainly leads to a gigantic “WTF?”

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This is a David Lynch film, so know what you’re getting into. It has a dusky, morose mood combined with a strange fever-feeling I had as a kid, lying in bed and feeling like body parts are shrinking while everything in the room is alternately too big or too large.

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