The Day of the Locust (1975)

I think this is some kind of Hollywood-in-the-‘30s fever dream. Aspiring actress leads a young art director on but shacks up with a lonely recluse. It’s confusing and freaky. There’s an annoying androgynous child, cockfighting, a stag movie night at a brothel, a collapse of a movie set that hurts dozens, a father and daughter who torture each other with manic laughter and song respectively, and a deadly riot at a movie premiere. And that’s not even all of the weird things.

If there'd been some payoff for sitting through all of the wtf moments, I may not have hated this so much.

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