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[FlonkNews] The Devil Is a Carnie
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mimus
Apr 17, 2012, 2:46:17 PM4/17/12
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If THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW was the movie REPO: THE GENETIC OPERA
really wanted so terribly to be, then THE DEVIL’S CARNIVAL is the very
sort of film that THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW desperately aspired
and failed to become. Unlike its campy, absurd predecessors, THE
DEVIL’S CARNIVAL isn’t a pastiche of styles, music and pop culture
stitched together to create an aesthetic hoping to be art. It *is*
art. Profound, inspired, blood-soaked, sweat stained art. It is at
once a film drenched in its own, carnie worshiping, Jim Rose Circus by-
way-of Tom Waits SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES sensibilities, and
steeped in a rich, literate, intellectual structure that only opens
its mouth when it has something important to say.
It is an allegory. A fantasy. A fable. It is also one of the single
greatest Devil-centric stories ever told, and one of only a few such
tales that aspires to make the devil out to be more than a mere
tempter or villain. It gives him a soul. And in the final few moments
of this film, the Devil does something so incredibly interesting, that
it changes the rules about how such stories can even be told.
After three senseless deaths, the souls of the deceased find
themselves faced with the bizarre, unkind performance of the Devil’s
Carnival – each character playing out their clichéd life and death in
the form of an Aesop’s Fable. But as the performances of the fables
unravel before us, we see a deeper, richer tale unfold – one in which
the Carnival’s master tries to reconcile his position in a cruel,
unforgiving universe.
It is the William S. Burroughs story Uncle Bill never wrote, told with
all the elegant fanciful style and care for the human condition as a
Neil Gaiman tale. And it is far and away the single best thing Darren
Lynn Bousman has ever made . . . .
<much more:>
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/54959
http://thedevilscarnival.com/
My own warily-beloved "femme electro" Emilie Autumn plays one-a the
showies here (and her backup singer, and off-tour carnie herself,
"Maggot" plays a "Woe Maiden", WeverTF that is):
http://www.dreadcentral.com/img/news/gallery/devilscarnival/devilscarnivalmakeup20x.jpg
And Skinny Puppy's Ogre plays another showie.
Looks like fun, even for us wait-for-the-DVD types.
--
But are there any alien vampires in it?
really wanted so terribly to be, then THE DEVIL’S CARNIVAL is the very
sort of film that THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW desperately aspired
and failed to become. Unlike its campy, absurd predecessors, THE
DEVIL’S CARNIVAL isn’t a pastiche of styles, music and pop culture
stitched together to create an aesthetic hoping to be art. It *is*
art. Profound, inspired, blood-soaked, sweat stained art. It is at
once a film drenched in its own, carnie worshiping, Jim Rose Circus by-
way-of Tom Waits SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES sensibilities, and
steeped in a rich, literate, intellectual structure that only opens
its mouth when it has something important to say.
It is an allegory. A fantasy. A fable. It is also one of the single
greatest Devil-centric stories ever told, and one of only a few such
tales that aspires to make the devil out to be more than a mere
tempter or villain. It gives him a soul. And in the final few moments
of this film, the Devil does something so incredibly interesting, that
it changes the rules about how such stories can even be told.
After three senseless deaths, the souls of the deceased find
themselves faced with the bizarre, unkind performance of the Devil’s
Carnival – each character playing out their clichéd life and death in
the form of an Aesop’s Fable. But as the performances of the fables
unravel before us, we see a deeper, richer tale unfold – one in which
the Carnival’s master tries to reconcile his position in a cruel,
unforgiving universe.
It is the William S. Burroughs story Uncle Bill never wrote, told with
all the elegant fanciful style and care for the human condition as a
Neil Gaiman tale. And it is far and away the single best thing Darren
Lynn Bousman has ever made . . . .
<much more:>
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/54959
http://thedevilscarnival.com/
My own warily-beloved "femme electro" Emilie Autumn plays one-a the
showies here (and her backup singer, and off-tour carnie herself,
"Maggot" plays a "Woe Maiden", WeverTF that is):
http://www.dreadcentral.com/img/news/gallery/devilscarnival/devilscarnivalmakeup20x.jpg
And Skinny Puppy's Ogre plays another showie.
Looks like fun, even for us wait-for-the-DVD types.
--
But are there any alien vampires in it?
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