'Arrebato' (1979) - Ivan Zulueta.

Director Ivan Zulueta’s sublime 'Arrebato' (1979) is an extraordinarily oblique, insidiously disturbing, deliciously deranged Spanish nightmare, and for reasons that still elude me, this psychotronic oddity remains largely undocumented, and is greatly deserving of a pristine, fan-pleasing Blu-ray restoration! This divinely sinister piece of stylish movie macabre, eerily documents the gradual subversion, and inexorable psychological collapse of a young, hopelessly dope-addled, profoundly jaded filmmaker's life. He is pitilessly plunged into a darkly descending, surrealist miasma, over the ostensibly vampiric properties of an especially hypnotic, phantasmagorical super-8 film that once seen is not soon forgotten! To reiterate, 'Arrebato' is a strikingly lucid and fiercely imaginative work of fantastically far-out cinema that includes some genuinely unsettling sequences. The impressively iconoclastic film’s singularly intriguing narrative enigma grips you firmly right from the exquisitely terse opening gambit, and then invidiously immerses the increasingly discombobulated viewer into its unrelenting maelstrom of hallucinatory strangeness! Ivan Zulueta’s beautifully audacious work of uniquely twisted torment is a sublimely suffocating, chillingly claustrophobic, bravura, B-movie Bunuel for the more diabolically minded, scream-seeking, Euro-cult maniacs to enjoy!

'Mom told me to leave the spooky doll at home, but I thought you wouldn't mind! Look deeply into the spooky doll's eyes!!!!!'

'I'm merely a projection of my old self!'

'That's what you think, bright-eyes! One way trip to the booby hatch, buddy!

'I'm getting my Syd Barrett on!'

'It's taken me AGES to get my pallor to perfectly match my bedroom wall!'

'The choice of Super 8 rentals these days is pretty poor, Amazon REALLY need to up their game!'

'You've actually got film of me doing just this, you're such a goof, Henry!