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The Cars That Ate Paris (1974) The quirky debut feature of Weir, demonstrating the weirdness that
has gradually been erased from his personality by Hollywood. The outback
town of Paris, Australia, is built on salvage from car wrecks that the
citizenry cause, and a newcomer finds himself sucked into a strange
society where mad drivers prowl the dark on jousting missions and lobotomised
crash survivors shuffle around the floor at a town dance. It resists
rational explanation and has a lot of first film-ish lapses, but the
mix of black humour and J.G. Ballardian kink is very distinctive. The
most memorable image is the porcupine-spiked Volkswagen, but there are
many more intriguing grotesqueries around the edges. Meillon, the all-purpose
Aussie character actor, plays the mayor. First Published In: Empire (issue unknown) Visit Kim's Official Website at www.johnnyalucard.com
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