Enjoy a Hearty Helping of Baby Blood
You know you’re in for something special when a film begins with the cooling of the earth’s crust. It takes a special kind of bravado to begin at the beginning. As we watch the stock footage of lava bubbling and oozing out of the ground we are treated to some dramatic narration delivered by the director himself who sounds like a cross between Kraftwerk and Golem. Here is the first sentence, “In the beginning the world was no more than a cooling star covered in hideous vegetation and foul gargoyles who fought each other for their sustenance under the star-spangled sky.”
