Screening Log, August 2006

Invasion Of The Thunderbolt Pagoda
USA / 1968

At the Green Man Festival in south Wales, Sunburned Hand Of The Man treated a tentful of lucky devotees to an improvised performance of their soundtrack to this wild experimental classic, rarely seen since it’s initial release. The film itself is indescribable, a nightmarish opiate underworld of Eastern mystical imagery and floating skulls jostling with delirious acid- fuelled floral frolics. The final sequence, a series of Mylar reflections moving like icebergs across the screen, is unlike anything else in cinema. At 20 minutes the whole experience was frustratingly short but extraordinarily vivid- a psychedelic rollercoaster.

by Tom Huddleston | Source: DVD
27 Aug 2006 9:42 AM | Submit Comment


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