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Title: What the heck is this?
Review: I've seen this movie several times, the first time some years ago in the middle of the night. I watched frozen in horror, unable to look away. I admit I have not read the book, so I wasn't too worried about following some kind of story (I could watch with the sound turned off). The visuals are striking, but so very ugly - the long eyebrows, the boils, and what was that ghastly octopus thing in the tank giving orders?!!! The absurd comic-opera costumes, like palace guards in Lichtenstein. The bald nuns or whatever, and their creepy costumes. Loved the sandworms, so I give it a star for them, and loved Kyle /Paul, I give it another star for his performance. He stood out like a lilly on a dungheap, as beautiful as the others were ugly. (and his mom wasn't bad, either).
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