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I just ordered Throne of Blood from Amazon. I'd been vacillating about ordering it, because it is pricey, but it is one of my favorite movies. It's Akira Kurosawa's version of Macbeth. It has a great creepy witch scene, and the lady mac character is even worse than the hand washing shakespearean character.



I don't have a big DVD library or anything, really the only other one I've ordered is the Ruling Class, which is like Monty Python meets Edgar Allen Poe, via the Producers. Oh hell I don't know what it's like but it's good. Peter O'Toole plays an aristocrat who thinks he's god. At first, he's the god of love, full of love (and lust) for all his creatures. This pisses off his aristocratic relatives royally (or nobly?), so they enlist all kinds of shrinks to cure him of his delusions.

He gets cured...not of the delusion that he is god, but of the delusion that god has anything to do with love. He becomes the destroyer, a god of death, a/k/a Jack the Ripper and starts killing people. But, his manners and sartorial sense are impeccable, so he is totally acceptable to the aristocratic relatives and neighbors. He runs for parliament and of course wins big. At anyrate you should see it, it's quite strange. And peter o'toole is a madman.