Szamanka & Clifford

Season Four is here. We start our deep dive into how the theme of "chaos" has been explored on film with a classic pairing from Felix. We take  a look at Andrzej Żuławski's controversial folk horror/erotic thriller Szamanka (1996) and the 1994 disasterpiece Clifford (1994).

Szamanka (1996) Starring Boguslaw "The Polish Bruce Willis" Linda and the then first-time actress Iwona Petry, Szamanka explores the violently intense sexual relationship between an archaeology professor (Linda) and a possibly mentally ill woman referred to only as "The Italian" (Petry).

Clifford (1996) Hoping to match the success of superficially similar nineties comedies like Home Alone and Problem Child, but failing to find a child star with adequate box office draw, Orion Studios decided to cast middle-aged comedian Martin Short as the eponymous Clifford. Short plays a ten-year-old sadist whose prolonged stay with his uncle (Charles Grodin) and his put-upon girlfriend (Mary Steenburgen) results in a whirlwind of psychic and physical violence.

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