Weird Tales Magazine No. 366: Sword & Sorcery Issue

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Donnie Darko (2001)– Angsty, apocalyptic, fantastical drama about a screwed-up, possibly time-traveling teen is an irresistibly lovable mess Visitor Q [ Bijitâ Q] (2001) – Takashi Miike’s story about a mysterious visitor who disrupts dysfunctional family dynamics breaks the lactation taboo

The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)– Art-deco B-movie with fascinating production design and campy acting from star Vincent Price The Love Witch (2016)– A mix of witchcraft, campy romantic melodrama, and bubbling feminist subtext, presented as a tribute to 1960s Technicolor spectacles Yellow Submarine (1968)– Animated film inspired by Beatles songs is a psychedelic trip through surreal seas in a quest to defeat the music-hating Blue Meanies

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Silent Hill (2006)– Sloppy scripting and apocalyptic imagery combine to create a truly weird experience If you were to put together a Best of Weird Tales, what stories would you include? Here is my list:

Anguish (1987)– Spiral movie-within-a-movie (within-a-movie?) about a serial killer loose in a theater After Last Season (2009)– An amateurish embarrassment about two med students, a killer on the loose, and a ghost, so full of misguided directorial choices and failed attempts at cinematic poetry that it takes on a dreamlike character Dead Alive [ AKA Brain Dead] (1992)– A rabid monkey incites the most absurdly gory zombie movie ever made The Red Squirrel [ La Ardilla Roja] (1993)– A suicidal man pretends to be the boyfriend of a beautiful amnesia victim, but how long can he keep up the charade? Chronopolis (1982)– Reader review by Morgan Hoyle-Combs. Seldom-seen abstract stop-motion animation from France

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Girl Slaves of Morgana le Fay [ Morgane et ses Nymphes] (1971)– A fairy tale for lesbian sex fetishists Whispers of the Serpent", first published in Scott Oden Presents The Lost Empire of Sol: A Shared World Anthology of Sword & Planet Tales, Rogue Blades Entertainment, 2021

The Saddest Music in the World (2003)– A legless Winnipeg beer baroness holds a contest to discover the titular music in this typically retro comic outing by Guy Maddin No Smoking (2007)– Quit smoking, the Bollywood way, in one of India’s few intentionally weird films Dillinger is Dead [ Dillinger e Morto] (1969)– Nearly forgotten late 1960s avant-garde alienation piece about a gas-mask designer who spends an evening puttering about his apartment Funeral Parade of Roses [ Bara no sôretsu] (1969)– Basically, a psychedelic Japanese drag adaptation of “Oedipus Rex”The Attic Expeditions (2001)– Mindbending psychological horror that loses its mind, mixing occultism, medical experimentation and general weirdness into a confusing B-movie blend The Saragossa Manuscript [ Rekopis Znaleziony w Saragossie] (1965)– A Napoleonic soldier listens to stories inside of stories, all of which may be related to two women claiming to be his Muslim cousins who want to seduce him

The Triplets of Belleville [ Les Triplettes de Belleville, AKA Belleville Rendez-vous] (2003)– Three retired jazz singers help a nearsighted grandma and her overweight dog save a bicyclist from art deco gangsters in this dialogue-free animation set in a surrealistic 1940s milieu The Woman in the Dunes [ Suna no onna] (1964)– Existential allegory where an amateur entomologist is trapped in a sand pit with a widow, forced to shovel sand to surviveBrand Upon the Brain! (2006)–“Guy Maddin”“remembers” his childhood growing up with a domineering mother and a mad scientist father in a lighthouse/orphanage