Attack of the Giant Snails! French animated film is like Kaiju by way of Monty Python

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSO4rlAn23w

You ’ve alreadymarveled at Fantastic Planet , the demented 1973 French movie about gargantuan blue the great unwashed holding midget mankind hostage . But have you seen Les Escargots , the 1965 giant escargot movie by the same creator ?

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word of advice : The video may be a bit NSFW , despite being on Youtube .

In Les Escargots , which is demonstrate in its entirety above , a gardener is trying to make his lettuces and things grow — and then he realizes that his own tears make them develop quicker than anything else . He ’s a lamentable mankind , so it ’s no trouble for him to shed tears on his vegetables on a somewhat steady base . Unfortunately , his tear also make the snails in his garden mature as well — and they become monolithic , powerful animal that go on to assail a nearby urban center , pulling half - naked people out of their abode and tugging them into their snail shells . And finally destroying all the buildings with their unstoppable snail power .

The last moments of the film hint at a terrifying sequel — that woefully never get .

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This movie , along with Fantastic Planet , is the work of Roland Torpor , “ the modernistic enfant dreadful of French art and letters . ”Novelist Dennis Cooper has a immense compilation of info about Torporover at his blog , including some of his toon — which are definitely somewhat NSFW . Torpor was heavily influenced by the surrealist , and he co - establish the Panic Movement along with Alejandro Jodorowsky and Fernando Arrabal . Jodorowsky , of course of instruction , was the film - maker who almost made a version of Dune starring Salvador Dali .

Torpor also worked as an actor , most notably playing Renfield in Werner Herzog ’s Nosferatu . His last , most surrealistic work was the perturbing 1989 film Marquis , in which actors wearing catamenia costumes and brute masks move out scenarios accommodate from the writings of the Marquis de Sade — and the Marquis ’ “ corporal appendage ” is a puppet . I like the subtitle : “ Quite exciting ! There were less verb than common . ”

monition : The video below is almost for sure NSFW :

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