What In The World Is Wrong With "TIME Magazine?????????????????"

                             The great horror schlockmeister, William Castle, made only one A-lister in his life, and those having been on here long enough know what that was--"Rosemary's Baby!!!!!!!!!!!!"

                             Recently, while watching a trailer for his Joan Crawford classic, "Strait-Jacket" (because even a little of crazy bitch Lucy Harbin is better than none, girls!!!!!!) the advertisement mentioned an earlier film of Castle's, "Homicidal," from 1961.  It stated that "TIME Magazine" named this film either the Best Picture of 1961, or one of that year's Ten Best!!!!!!!!!!!

                             What?  Darlings, you have GOT to be kidding!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                               I first learned of this film when I was six years old.  We would drive up to Tomahawk Lake, way up in Sussex County, New Jersey, and pass through this other small town with a gorgeous lake, near which there was a small movie theater, playing eclectic fare like "Homicidal."  It was my first hearing of the word, I knew it had something to do with murder, and I loved to go around, saying this word, menacingly.

                               Isn't that just like me, girls???????????????????

                               My parents, of course, refused to let me see this film.  And I did not get a chance, until I was well into adulthood.  I saw it at the Film Forum, and it was a hoot.

                                 It is about someone who is "homicidal," especially toward women.  But are there one or two killers?  Two key characters are Emily and Warren, who are one and the same.  Even a six-year-old today could see there was something unusual looking about her!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                   As for Warren, well it is better if he not be shown. He looks like an outtake from the instructional film of this era, "Boys Beware!"  You know, a child molesting fag who hangs outside boys rooms--but with a bad case of denture work!  Oh, my God!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                    You see, Warren's father hated women.  And when Warren was born a boy, the gender identity was swiped, making it appear he was a girl, so he would inherit his father's money.  Warren eventually transforms (but not trans-genders) into Emily, and come back to murder all who would stand in the way of her now dead father's inheritance.

                                      It is simply a hoot, darlings!  Vintage William Castle! And decades before "The Crying Game!!!!!!"  Yet "TIME Magazine"--I looked this up--said it was "more structurally brilliant than 'Psycho'."  Can you believe it?  And yes, this was named one of the year's Ten Best by TIME, if not THE best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                       Imagine--this was the year of  "Judgment At Nuremberg," "West Side Story," "Two Women," "Splendor In The Grass," "La Dolce Vita," and "Summer And Smoke!!!!!!!!!!!!"  And TIME  picks "Homicidal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

                                        I always thought there was something decidedly Right Wing about the mag, all through the Sixties.  There was certainly something wrong, back then, with its film criticism department.

                                         Putting this trash among the Ten Best!

                                         Girls, it's enough to drive one to kill!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!