[crabapple]

Now "Flesh Gordon" is one of those things, one of those freaky weird-ass movies that basically suck but they're too ambitious to be dismissed entirely (a pron comedy spoof with stop motion effects and spaceships??).

I rented a disc and listened to a very bizarre commentary by the director who described the experiences of one of the effects people working on the film, the guy who animated the "Penisaurus" creatures. Supposedly the guy kept having problems with his lights flickering while he was photographing his puppets and was totally convinced that the building he was working in was haunted. So: He brought the director in to show him how the lights were misbehaving during photography, and of course, they refused to flicker. "That's funny....it stopped doing it because YOU'RE here!" or something to that effect. Remember, this was the mid-70's. Very twisted weird movie, actually rather ugly and unpleasant for a fantasy picture, but it's sure worth seeing once.