This movie feels like it’s several films all colliding at once, so I feel like I should review it in the same way, taking the many times that I’ve seen parts of it and what I thought as it’s grown into a much larger film.
Blood of the Dinosaurs: Once, we went to a Mystery Spot and after we walked toward the center of the room, it kept pushing us into the walls and I was young and trying to hold my mother’s hand and it made me cry. Then, we all got on a train and it went through a forest and animatronic dinosaurs appeared and the driver told us to reach under our chairs for guns to kill the rampaging lizards and I yelled and ran up and down the length of the train begging for people to stop and that we needed to study the dinosaurs and not kill them. This was not a dream.
Another story. I was obsessed with dinosaurs and planned on studying them, combining my love of stories of dragons like the Lamprey Worm with real zoology, but then nine-year-old me learned that they were all dead and I had to face mortality at a very young age which meant I laid in bed and contemplated eternity all night and screamed and cried so much I puked. This is also a true story.
The Blood of DInosaurs has Uncle Bobbo (Vincent Stalba) and his assistant Purity (Stella Creel) explain how we got the oil in our cars that choke the planet but first, rubber dinosaurs being bombarded by fireworks and if you think the movie gets boring from here, you’re so wrong.
Can The Beverly Hillbillies become ecstatic religion? Should kids have sex education? Would the children like to learn about body horror and giallo? Is there a show within a show within an interview and which reality is real and why are none of them and all of them both the answer? Did a woman just give birth to the Antichrist on a PBS kids show?
When I read that he was influenced by the Unarius Cult, my brain climbs out of my nose and dances around before I slowly strain to open my mouth and beg for it to come back inside where it’s wet and safe.
You got me again, Joe.
Purity may also be Marge Corn and she may be locked in starship battles with Doctor Universe or maybe she’s just talking to ger grandmother or perhaps she’s being chased through a horror movie by her evil twin dressed like Santa. Or is it all a movie? Because there’s Joe, directing Marge as she sits on the set of a science fiction movie.
If you’re not paying attention, this is not the movie for you.
While this is just the first part of this four part miniseries, I’m already along for the ride. This is beyond well made and is strange not for the sake of it and without some bigger plan, but feels like being taken on a ride with no idea where you’re going to end up or even who you’re going to be when you get there. It may not be the journey everyone is ready to take, but I say unbuckle that seatbelt and get weird.
And now…
Purity (Kali Russell) who finds The Wheel of Heaven in a second hand shop and finds herself part of the stories, or is she also becoming pulled into a public access channel? Or is this a mixtape and we get to hear about it directly from its creator?
Is this Star Trek? Is this Twilight Zone? Is Purity also Marge? Is Marge Purity? Who is real? Are the characters really watching me?
Leave it to the IMDB trivia section to sum it all up. “It’s a feature film that has a mini-series inside of it. And that mini-series is inside of a fake public access channel complete with credits and fake commercials between each chapter. All the while, the audience is also watching the behind-the-scenes footage on the making of the film.”
I wouldn’t be more surprised by Badon’s films if he showed up with a camera right now in my house.
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