About ten years ago Kay and Adam walked into the Newbury Street Newbury Comics, which used to be full of quirky DVDs, and saw an Italian horror film called "Nude For Satan." Amused by the title, Kay read the back and while Adam eventually forgot about it (as he does; it is but his way), she never did. And it's a good thing she didn't because this movie was a decent watch. It's got a vibe like a combination of "Manos: Hands Of Fate" in terms of plot and "Death Bed" in terms of energy and overall 70s-ness. I will try to explain it, but it might not make sense.A man driving through a remote part of Italy swerves off the road to avoid a mysterious woman in white only to hear another car crash behind him shortly after. He goes to the car and takes the female driver back to his own car before making his way to the nearest "castle." He encounters a guard in a funny hat who tells him he can't move from his spot before disappearing. The man enters the dingy mansion and is weirdly nonreactive to finding an alive servant man with a knife through his throat or a freaky sex scene behind random doors. He somehow ends up in a parallel universe with another version of the girl from the car accident who speaks in pseudo-philosophy and only knows how to kiss by biting. They frolic in the garden and have some sex. The girl from the accident eventually makes it to the mansion too where she meets a man in a suit (Satan) and then makes out with a random servant girl after a standing bath. She puts on a skimpy nightie and has softcore dreams about the servant girl before waking up to find the servant girl being whipped by the servant man. She freaks out and somehow stumbles into a void and ends up in a giant spiderweb with a kindergarten art class spider coming to get her. Somehow the man gets out of the alternative time and comes to save car accident girl from the spider. They then encounter their other halves who basically wax poetic about how they are their evil others. The man resists his but the girl absorbs her evil other and makes out with the guy's evil half while Satan appears and instigates an orgy with two other naked girls and two loincloth-wearing men wearing two tone body paint. The man realizes he can stop this nonsense by reading how in this giant book in the other room and discovers that Satanists hate fire, contrary to what would make sense about them. He burns it down and wakes up against his steering wheel. The girl has only just crashed but now they both have these medallions that represent their two halves or something. This movie may have been written on drugs.
This movie is a very trippy experience. Directorially it has what we started calling "the Italian angle" which is a Dutch angle that then shifts to tilt in the other direction without a cut. It happened a lot. There were also a bunch of filters so we felt like we were going crazy with the main character. Of course, the plot was bonkers and the effects were silly but it should also be noted that this movie is dubbed and it is dubbed so unenthusiastically that the main character has the emotion of Tommy Wiseau. It's worth a watch.
Quote: Forget about the past and the present. Only focus on the now!
Spoon Rating: 6
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