Let’s Get The Banned Back Together - 10 HEADLESS EYES Part Two

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Even "cornea" than Part 1, blink and you'll miss it, while not a "patch" on Episode 9…it's got worse pupils than Netflix's Adolescence… We return to 1971's ocular oddity of artistic anarchy…Headless Eyes!

Last time, we prowled through the plotting, as poor Arthur - messed-up, misunderstood and masochistic - hunted and haunted the streets of 70's New York with revenge on his mind, a scalpel in his pocket, divorce papers in his man-bag and a gallery-opening on his year planner. And blimey what a grim and grotty tale it was.

And now we're BACK! To dissect and discuss the creators and creation of this scuzzy bity of "opti-sploitation,"

Who were the team of producers who had one eye on the box-office and one hand on the kleenex when they crowbarred a load of smutty snuff into director Bateman's artsy project?

Was THIS the sort of 42nd street piece of exploitation crapola that Tarantino and Rodruiguez smugly parodied in 2007's 'Grindhouse' and why does the author unreasonably blame Zooey Daschanel for making the whole genre largely unwatchable?

And how is it possible to film a man stalking a woman in an elevator and make it even more tedious than a man NOT stalking a woman in an elevator? And why does it take so fucking long?

Discover ALL THIS and much, much more, as we dig into the history of Grindhouse and find out where - if anywhere - we'll shove the big-box Wizard Picture VHS release of a video nasty that website Fantastic Movie Musings and Ramblings, called "Pointless, pretentious, annoying, and no fun at all…" HEADLESS EYES!

Richard Asplin is an award nominated novelist, comedian, pub quiz host and has appeared on Smershpod, LBC and Radio 5 as well as writing for The Guardian and The Sunday Telegraph.

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