Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Angels, and what's left but another melodrama, one in which beefy Alfred Jarrys play the villains, and everyone else the innocents. A self-defined outlaw gag, but not the kind of outlaws that sign million dollar contracts, the Angels are denied appeal. Though Grace Slick says, "People get weird and we need the Angels to keep people in line"; though a member of the Dead says, "Beating on musicians? Doesn't seem right"; though the Stones and their entourage hired the Angels as guards because they were cheap and because they added a little genuine street-fighting class...
Gradually the stage fills with weird, masked figures from the mists of prehistory: tribesmen in vast, shaggy costumes thumping drums, bonging gongs, pinging cymbals. Enormous idols appear. Frenzied, the primitives swirl and bang and jabber. The shaman speaks: God demands a sacrifice, the greatest sacrifice is sex, a taboo is born...
...heard on the radio you're coming out with a book soon, anyway, the dj with the zombie voice said it was going to read like a long set of liner notes interspersed with weird letters, that's the kind of detail they give you on FM radio I used to listen to AM stations and liked Chad and Jeremy before I fell in love with you and my present boyfriend, the zombie also said the book was going to be called Tarantula, is that because it bites you once and is into your bloodstream for good? that's exactly...
...always vaguely and meaninglessly on the go. That's what the life in a new country does to you: it makes you so material, so outward, that your real inner life and your inner self dies out, and you clatter around like so many mechanical animals... Yet the weird, unawakened country is wonderful...
Director Paul Wendkos has perhaps taken the suggestion of his title a bit too literally. He seizes every available opportunity to dance his camera around, photographing from acrobatic angles and utilizing a full spectrum of weird color filters. If the technique is somewhat distracting, at least he succeeds in achieving a good sense of clammy terror. The Mephisto Waltz is not one of those really goose-fleshy horror pictures that make you edgy about opening the front door when you get home from the theater. But it is spooky enough to make you wonder just a little the next time...