A truly Fortean film would be one which had no background
data available. I remember sitting through Rollin's Rape of the
Vampire, with no prior information. It's a pity to see it
dismissed online as culty arty porno-schlock, because it is does have some
poetry in its weirdness. The later Rollin films also have their
moments but more tits than a Carry On film. There is also the
fun of films that have been so cut to shreds that they make no sense.
I once saw an Argentine? horror that contained no horrors at
all - they had all been removed as too ghastly. What remained was
impossible to follow as the characters disappeared one by one without
explanation.
As a kid I was spooked by a very odd film in which people were
brainwashed by being put in draws. It is called something like The
Metal Monster. It would probably just raise a laugh now.
It was in an attempt to get the full weird fix of the movies that the
early surrealists would dash from cinema to cinema, trying
not to understand the plot.
For some reason it is not an authentic surreal experience to channel
hop from the comfort of your sofa. And it is not a Fortean coincidence
to find drivel on every channel.
