At The Projection Booth, friend of the Gutter Mike White joins Heather Drain and Payton McCarty-Simas to discuss Pandemonium as part of a month-long look at Australian oddities! “The Projection Booth continues its dive into Australian cinema with Pandemonium, the delirious 1987 feature from writer-director Haydn Keenan. A film that plays like a fever dream filtered through exploitation cinema, absurdist theater, and cultural anxiety, Pandemonium resists easy summary–and happily punishes anyone who tries.

The story unfolds through the fractured testimony of Kales Leadingham, an escapee from an asylum portrayed by David Argue, who recounts his time working as a surveyor at a decaying movie studio run by the grotesque siblings (or spouses?) EB and PB De Wolf. What follows is a barrage of unstable identities, pagan imagery, religious parody, sexual panic, fascist satire, and mythic nonsense, all orbiting the enigmatic ‘Dingo Girl,’ whose presence seems to fracture reality itself.”

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