Where the Demons Dwell

Stonhenge update. I wonder what the proportion is of dead workers to dead nobles. 20:1? Whatever the case, this changes everything.

Cat City

Has anyone seen Felix the Cat: The Movie? 

I've always had these totally bizarre images of said feline in my memory, but could never figure out how or why; I can't recall ever watching anything involving Felix the Cat. I'd therefore brushed it all off as some weird dream that probably stuck with me. That is, until the glory of YouTube, wherein I discovered that Felix the Cat has been in my life before. But my memory is not in the least warped.

I won't beat around the bush: This movie is fucked. At least, that's the impression I get from the clips I've seen. Set against a backdrop of surreal landscapes, we find Felix traveling into another dimension in order to rescue the Princess of Oriana, who has been kidnapped by her mad scientist uncle, the Duke of Zil. Standard kid stuff. But the cocktail of a totally arbitrary aesthetic, embarassing vocal performances edited together with Anime vigor, and a plot screaming "Syd's first trip" has left us with this:

Did anyone catch the dragon doing Brando around 3:40? Trust me, seeing this in context makes no more sense; it's impossible to place a (fixed) cat, princess, and old prospector whose hat is covered in what looks like shit into a remotely coherent situation. Add robots and you're just getting ridiculous. The synth soundtrack is no help, either. 

Incidentally—and I swear that I had no knowledge of this connection—the movie has almost entirely Hungarian production credits. Typical that the Magyars would have a hand in something like this. And, looking at the disturbing, shoddy animation, it makes a lot of sense that the creative force was composed of a people with one of the highest suicide rates in the world. 

But upon further digging, I found out that Felix the Cat is only a taste of Hungary's penchant for twisted critters. One of the country's more notable films (at least, according to Wikipedia), Macskafogó, "Cat City", preceded Felix by two years, and I think that its influence upon the latter is evident: 

The Hungarian language is creepy enough without the boogie woogie accompaniment, let alone a metalhead rat morphing into vampire. Yikes...