Sunday night, for most people, is a night reserved for honest, relaxed leisure. Perhaps you like to get your ducks in a row and prepare for the week ahead, or perhaps you like to enjoy a bowl of vanilla ice cream with raspberry topping and chocolate shavings, or perhaps you like to turn out the lights, curl up on the couch, and watch a movie. If you’re really lucky, there’s hardly any ducks to line up, the ice cream is extra tasty, and the movie you’ve decided to watch isn’t Taxidermia. That’s right — isn’t — because if it is, boy, your evening of honest, relaxed leisure has suddenly been cruelly disrupted by a movie so grotesque it’ll turn you off of Sunday nights for a long time to come. Hell, this 2006 Hungarian film by György Pálfi will turn you off of life for a long time to come if you decide to dance with it, so I guess my warning to you is this: If you care about your Sundays at all, watch It’s Complicated or The Young Victoria or something equally safe. But, if your beard craves the bizarre, if it desires depravity (and it doesn’t mind subtitles), then Taxidermia will gladly ruin the rest of your week…and then some.

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I was thinking about starting a ‘From the Vaults’ feature where once a month I would tell you all about a B movie treasure you simply must check out, but that’s an awfully lame name for such a feature, and I don’t exactly write about new movies anyway, so everything is from a vault of some kind, so to speak. So, no label. Just the usual strange and wonderful trip through celluloid city you’ve come to love and expect here. That being said, how does a sci-fi horror where a woman’s head is kept alive in the hopes that a fringe surgeon can give her a new body sound? If that sounds like a delicious piece of bad candy, you’re in luck, because that’s the 1962 classic The Brain That Wouldn’t Die!

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