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Title:   Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
Director:   David Gregory
Year:   2014
Genre:   Documentary
Times Seen:   1
Last Seen:   09.21.14

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Date Viewed Venue Note
09.21.14Alamo South LamarThis Screening is part of event: FantasticFest 2014
Half Jodorowsky's Dune, half Lost in La Mancha, this doc follows the inception and eventual production of the 90s Dr. Moreau film with Brando and Kilmer. Also just like both those other docs, it's like crack to a film geek like me. Richard Stanley is a really interesting character and his stories of production are just insane... but then the stories of after Frankenheimer took over are even more insane... then the stories told during the Q&A were the most insane of all. The story of Stanley's witch buddy in London named Skip who suffered from radiation weakening his bones and necrotizing fasciitis then developed an addiction to pain medication but then got clean and became a drug counselor then started recruiting addicts that he counseled into his coven (skip was from Ft. Lauderdale originally)... insane. He also excellently fielded a question of whether he had ever met Jodorowsky or seen the doc ("A close examination of that film will reveal that I am in it")... AND I got a free blu of HARDWARE!!! This screening was the best.

Loved this one.