Showing posts with label delirious dreams and fallacious figments (u). Show all posts
Showing posts with label delirious dreams and fallacious figments (u). Show all posts
Monday, April 6, 2026

FINAL CURTAIN (1957)

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  PHENOMENALITY: *marvelous*  MYTHICITY: *good* FRYEAN MYTHOS: *drama* CAMPBELLIAN FUNCTION: *metaphysical* “I know that I must find that ob...
Saturday, December 13, 2025

SINTHIA THE DEVIL'S DOLL (1970)

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  PHENOMENALITY: *uncanny*  MYTHICITY: *fair* FRYEAN MYTHOS: *drama* CAMPBELLIAN FUNCTION: *psychological* Intellectually, I know that SINTH...
Saturday, January 4, 2025

BEHAVING BADLY (2014)

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Wednesday, November 13, 2024

THE HOUSE OF USHER (1989)

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  PHENOMENALITY: *uncanny* MYTHICITY: *poor* FRYEAN MYTHOS: *drama* CAMPBELLIAN FUNCTION: *psychological* SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS In my r...
Thursday, October 31, 2024

THE PHYNX (1970)

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  PHENOMENALITY: *uncanny* MYTHICITY: *poor* FRYEAN MYTHOS: *comedy* CAMPBELLIAN FUNCTION: *sociological* THE PHYNX (the name of a four-man ...
Sunday, October 6, 2024

HEY, GOOD LOOKIN' (1982)

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  PHENOMENALITY: *uncanny* MYTHICITY: *good* FRYEAN MYTHOS: *comedy* CAMPBELLIAN FUNCTION: *psychological, sociological* Though HEY GOOD LOO...
Tuesday, August 6, 2024

MARRIED WITH CHILDREN: "OLDIES BUT YOUNG UNS" (1991)

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PHENOMENALITY: *uncanny* MYTHICITY: *fair* FRYEAN MYTHOS: *comedy* CAMPBELLIAN FUNCTION: *psychological* This fifth-season episode is mostly...
Saturday, June 1, 2024

WANDA THE SADISTIC HYPNOTIST (1969)

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  PHENOMENALITY: *uncanny* MYTHICITY: *fair* FRYEAN MYTHOS: *irony* CAMPBELLIAN FUNCTION: *psychological* Even by the late 1960s, apparently...
Saturday, May 25, 2024

DELIRIUM (1972)

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  PHENOMENALITY: *uncanny* MYTHICITY: *fair* FRYEAN MYTHOS: *drama* CAMPBELLIAN FUNCTION: *psychological* Though the story of Renato Polsell...
Thursday, March 21, 2024

THE CANTERBURY TALES (1972)

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  PHENOMENALITY: *uncanny* MYTHICITY: *poor* FRYEAN MYTHOS: *irony* CAMPBELLIAN FUNCTION: *sociological* It may have been as long as fifty y...
Friday, November 3, 2023

SINBAD OF THE SEVEN SEAS (1989)

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  PHENOMENALITY: *uncanny* MYTHICITY: *fair* FRYEAN MYTHOS: *adventure* CAMPBELLIAN FUNCTION: *metaphysical* Luigi Cozzi might never have ma...
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

THE THREE STOOGES GO AROUND THE WORLD IN A DAZE (1963)

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  PHENOMENALITY: *uncanny* MYTHICITY: *poor* FRYEAN MYTHOS: *comedy* CAMPBELLIAN FUNCTION: *sociological* I saw DAZE back in "The Day,...
Thursday, October 19, 2023

ALICE IN WONDERLAND (1931)

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  PHENOMENALITY: *uncanny* MYTHICITY: *fair* FRYEAN MYTHOS: *irony* CAMPBELLIAN FUNCTION: *psychological* The first sound version of ALICE...
Monday, September 4, 2023

THE INCREDIBLE PROFESSOR ZOVEK (1972), INVASION OF THE DEAD (1973)

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  PHENOMENALITY: *marvelous* MYTHICITY: (1) *poor?,* (2) *fair* FRYEAN MYTHOS: *adventure* CAMPBELLIAN FUNCTION: *cosmological, metaphysical...