Tom Bret
United States

There are films you watch and films that watch you—Lucky Hoodoo belongs to the latter caste, a flickering phantasm shot on unstable nitrate that seems to exhale chloroform and jasmine in equal measure. Billy B. Van, best remembered for custard-pie pantomimes, here sports kohl-rimmed eyes that telegraph delirium; every...


Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.

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" There are films you watch and films that watch you—Lucky Hoodoo belongs to the latter caste, a flickering phantasm shot on unstable nitrate that seems to exhale chloroform and jasmine in equal measure. Billy B. Van, best remembered for custard-pie pantomimes, here sports kohl-rimmed eyes that telegraph delirium; every smirk arrives like a razor hidden in a king cake. The camera, drunk on Dutch tilts, ogles his concave chest as though it were a cathedral of appetites. Occult Americana: A Carniv..."

1906 · IMDb 3
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