Year: 1993
Duration: 01:35:39
Directed by: Jaroslav Brabec
Actors: Ondrej Pavelka, Klára Jirsáková, Raoul Schránil
Language: Czech
Country: Czechoslovakia
Also known as: Horry Story
Description:Pulp gothic horror, Czech design. A writer/narrator guides us through a kaleidoscope patchwork of old-school expressionism, slapstick, melodrama and horror all filmed in tinted intertitles and sepia with abrupt bursts of unexpected gore and nudity. The stories are lurid, wild, whimsical and all over the place, and include an evil Jesuit, a proud nobleman, pirates, bloodthirsty monks, necrophiliac morgue employees, wild passion in the forest, criminals, cave monsters, zombies, seductions, corruptions, primitive tribes, bar brawls, etc. Some of the stories blend in incoherent ways and the writer’s own life becomes its own little horror story. Entertaining, stylish and wild.
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Without English subs, this was kinda difficult to follow…but what an odd and interesting film this was to look at. Gore, nudity, humor, fantasy, horror, pirates, this one has a lot going for it. I would love to read the book it was based on.
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“—It is evident that a plot is hatching in this Amsterdam pub.—
A wonderfully complex story that is as much dark as it is comical, with at the center the writer (who is writing a book, the stories of which are told in the rest of the film), who is eventually visited by some of the characters he himself created. It is stylized as an old silent film, but at times the actors ‘break character’ and speak out loud, as there are other sounds from time to time. Each storyline is in a different color and in the end all of them are connected, even if some natives have to dance through the earth to the other side… This is total insanity with beer dripping caves, bleeding books, an enchanting muse whose fingers are chopped off and then put back on again, and so on and so forth, with nudity and gore to spare. The settings are wonderful, many of them inspired by the German expressionist films from ages ago.
Storywise it will probably be impossible to completely unravel things, so the genre fantasy certainly applies here. Horror, love (unrequited or other), humor, tragedy, death and vile plots go down a plenty in this absolute adventure of a film.
A big 8 out of 10.”
(my review as user punishmentpark on Imdb, 23 dec. 2013)