Dandy Dust

There is much fun to be had at those underground festivals of neon light and thumping music known as raves, but there is a considerable difference between participating in one and hearing someone's account of one, second-hand. "Dandy Dust" is a zero-budget British "experimental" film that plays like a silent movie crossed with a particularly lame MTV video and the pulsing neon of an all-night party. The style is pretentious, the plot incoherent, and the edits, overexposures, and loud colors deflate any "humor." In short, it's a senseless disaster–a movie that clearly looked like fun to participate in, but is sheer torture to watch.

Look, I've got a pretty open mind, and can appreciate all kinds of weird movies, from arthouse to exploitation, but 'Dandy Dust' is one of the most useless and BORING movies I've ever seen! If it lived up to the hype of the video cover blurbs I'd be a happy man, but it's hard to believe they're talking about the same movie as the one I just endured.

Makes 'Gummo' look like 'Citizen Kane'.

10/10 just for being the most insane movie I've ever seen. Visions of Suffering, Death Powder, Reflections of Evil, and a few other movies have held that title over the years, but no way will this be replaced.

Stop-motion, supersaturated colors, completely just.. insane, ridiculous.. fast cuts... about a BILLION cuts, by the way. Completely chopped-up narrative. Okay, there's not much of a story. This is all style. It doesn't matter. Just so BIZARRE. Dialogue that doesn't match voices. Almost the whole film takes place in black rooms with high-contrast props and insane costumes.

Sorta like a cross of the films of Adam Cooley and the early films of Tsukamoto. Worth a watch. Don't mistake my rating: This isn't a GREAT movie, but it is just... wow... INSANE.

This is the first time I've given a one star rating. This movie is terrible. This is the kind of thing art students do before they figure out why it's a bad idea.

I made it about 20 minutes before I had to turn it off.

Over the years I've had a lot of fun finding strange and gross movies to watch and appreciate. This movie takes the weird cake!! It's simply unlike anything I've ever seen, and probably anything you've seen too. The visual/effects are frantic and bizarre, and the plot equally so. Even though the story's a bit hard to make sense of, it's there, and I thought it pieced itself together in a satisfying way.

I also appreciate the weird gender stuff going on. It's always a treat to see trans people making fun art, as a trans person myself.

Overall, a very surreal and artsy movie with a lot to love (and be grossed out by, which is not a bad thing). I'd love to watch more strange films like this! ::-D.