One of my all time favorites.

Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

I loved Sea of Dust! A wild, unpredictable,film with the Legendary Tom Savini and Ingrid Pitt,how can you go wrong? Though my favorite villain was Pete Barker as Chalmers the mad butler.He reminded me of Phantasm's Tall Man. Sea of Dust might have had some political messages,but they went completely over my head.I was too busy enjoying it as a trippy nightmare set in the 1800's. Speaking of which,the locations were awesome.Their real historic locations look much better that the CGI backgrounds that saturated the recent "Wolfman" movie(which made me feel like I was watching someone play a video game for two hours). Prester John reminded me of Lovecraft's Nyarlathotep.A crazed entity from beyond, out to devour our reality,taking the form of a Medieval heroic figure. Judging from the Necronomicon-like grimoire that held Prestor's secrets, He may have actually been one of Lovecraft's Yog-Sothery.

This movie is a homage to Hammer films, which means it was made by guys who watched a lot of Hammer films and just didn't get it.What we see are a lot of period costumes and a typical period town where something monstrous is happening....And if you stayed awake up to this point, you were doing better than I was...Terrible acting, bad sound, seen better stuff on YouTube.Ah, but I think I can fill out my requisite ten lines talking about Ingrid Pitt. Ingrid was a big Hammer star about the time Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing were, and she had no compunctions about taking off her clothes to sell the movie. In this movie, she's old, fat, clearly hasn't worked in a long time and the only nice thing I can say is she DIDN'T remove her clothing. Because once you've seen it, you can't unsee it.

After writing reviews on two similarly themed but larger budgeted movies, Inception and eXistenZ I felt the need to give this nutty little picture its due. If it owes a debt to David Cronenberg's eXistenZ it is one tempered with lots of love for Hammer Films and lots of anger at the American political system.The story concerns an 18th century medical student who becomes trapped in a village that has been taken over by a myth. It is equal turns funny, violent and sexy. Like Inception and eXistenZ, it deals with characters traveling through multiple layers of reality and struggling with how they define their own existences.Less you think that I am being sacrilegious by comparing Sea Of Dust to Cronenberg and Nolan's more accomplished films, all you have to do is note that the Sea of Dust catch phrase "Take the leap of faith" shows up repeatedly in Inception. Coicidence? Probably, although the two films share a lot more than just a catch phrase despite Sea coming out years before its bigger budgeted cousin.I bought this after reading so many web reviews extolling how different Sea was. I can vouch for that but let me forewarn you that it will also prove offense to the Fox News generation, which may be why it has such an undeservedly low rating on IMDb.

My husband and I had big disagreements about this film. He felt it was like the second coming and I felt it was kind of offensive.Like a number of other movies at the Rhode Island Festival it looked like an older movie. Instead of being a black and white silent movie like THE CALL OF CTHULU, it looked like a horror movie from the 1960s. It wass very colorful and as much as I hate to admit it, it was really beautiful to look at. The music also added to the feel. You don't hear stuff like that anymore.There were some problems with it though. In case my headline didn't tell you, it is terribly bloody. A girl's head blows off before you're a minute into the movie and that's just the start. The hero gets stuck in the throat with a hook, people have their skulls stabbed with knives and pitchforks, and I won't get into some of the other stuff that goes on. My jaw was hanging open for most of the time.The biggest source of our disagreement was that I couldn't tell what was real and what wasn't. I couldn't tell if the hero was imagining everything including the people around him or if he was giving in to the evil forces. This was another time when my husband said, "That's the whole point." I still think it was kind of insane.I might have given this movie a lower score, but the cast were so nice during the question and answer session that followed that I couldn't help but like them. They also helped explain some of the religious symbolism that was really bothering me.To be honest, I'm not even sure this was a horror movie. There were a couple of moments when I laughed out loud, a lott where I shrank down in my seat because of all the blood, and a few others where I shook my head and said, "Where did that come from?"