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The Films of John Durbin in 1989, Part II- I've heard people say that you can tell if a movie is good by the previews that run before it. Well, before Dr. Caligari they show the trailers for Def by Temptation starring Kadeem Hardison(Dwayne Wayne) and Frankenhooker. This movie is supposedly a "cult comedy" but it's not exactly funny. It's not exactly anything. The opening scene involves a topless woman getting her wrist slit by a crash test dummy who springs out of a bubble bath brandishing a razor blade. And, it just goes from there. I enjoy a good abstract art house film, but holy shit. It's an hour and a half of dialogue that doesn't make any sense, most of it having to do with orgasms and multiple orgasms and probing and there seems to be a lot of tongues and open wounds running through the course of the film. From the back of the box: "Sigmund Freud is turning somersaults in his grave over this doctor's demented diagnosis." Nice try. |