User Reviews

This film is... different. The directors took a bunch of clips from several well-known silent films (Nosferatu, Dr. Caligari, The Golem, Phantom of the Opera, etc.) and re-edited them into a single narrative. It has a Monty Python-esquire vibe running throughout; the story is at times a little hard to follow, and there are numerous asides that tie into the overall story. There are LOTS of jokes and sight gags, almost too many to take in in a single viewing. This film isn't for kids, as there is a fair amount of questionable content (hooray for questionable content!). I laughed out loud many times, and Nosferatu's remake into a Christopher Walken sound-alike is definitely the high point of the film. This film won't be for everyone, but if you're into the "Kentucky Fried Movie" school of cinema, you should pick this one up.

I bought this after a friend forwarded me a copy of a newsletter from the company that made this movie. Let me say, it is weird AND I got many laughs. There are many things going on in it and I stopped the DVD a few times to read things or see pictures that are subliminal. I watched it twice, once with a group of friends, and the 2nd time was funnier than the first. Plus it seems better with a group of people commenting on it. Some of my friends said they didn't like it much but they laughed any way so it may have been some of the crude stuff that turned them off. I didn't understand some stuff that my friends did, and I got some of the jokes they didn't so maybe that's okay. The first time I saw it I didn't know what to expect so it took me about 10 minutes to understand what was going on... which was cool because when I watched it the 2nd time it made it funnier. I'd recommend this to film students and people who are looking for other ways of expressing themselves outside of the big Hollywood machine. I didn't understand the heartbreaking tale thing until the last segment. In looking through IMDb it appears another DVD from this company is coming soon and I'm looking forward to it.