Rating: 2/5
Cult Movie Challenge 2024 | 20/52 | Shannon Tweed
Scott Bruin is an LA photographer. Like every photographer, he’s also secretly fucking his models. He tells lightbulb jokes while they fuck, which makes any woman horny.
When he sleeps, he has nightmares of murdering someone. He proceeds to choke the model he’s fucking before waking up.
He walks along Muscle Beach to clear his head. He reads about murder. Just, like, murder in general. His therapist tells him that it’s not a big deal and he should stop worrying about it.
It keeps leaking into his life, interfering with his work. He tips an unhoused man to tell him if he’s crazy. They sleep together on the bench and get pizza the next day.
Through an air-sprayed t-shirt and a restraining order, Scott tracks down Kimberly, the woman from his dreams. He’s falling for her, but her behavior is sometimes unexplainable.
The visuals get so trippy! VHS effects and wavy distortions, like footage from an old computer game.
This movie is so whacky. It’s also way too long. I got so many laughs from this movie, all at the movie’s expense.
** Stray Thoughts/Spoilers **
- Glowing water bed
- “Mother has this thing about birds.”
- “Nothing makes sense anymore. And you know what? I don’t care.”
- He photographs a motorcycle like a snuff film
- “It was a stupid accident. I think of it as my own Vietnam.”
- She rides a motorcycle through multiple homes!
- The salad-eating scene has such bizarre timing
- Erotic cold marbles. Is he just filling her with them?
- The women in his life are awfully amicable to him choking them out in his sleep.
- Shannon Tweed is a model who is content to be a photographer’s situationship.
- Sleeping in jeans and a belt
- Watching laserdiscs
- “If I can’t have her, I don’t really care if she’s dead,” says our hero!