My Son, My Son What Have Ye Done? (2009)

Part two of a Saturday of Black Comedy Session, this David Lynch-presented, Werner Herzog-directed, Michael Shannon, Udo Kier, Willem Dafoe and Chloe Sevigny-starring oddity is bonkers. It is so bemusingly weird that it makes Herzog's previous Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans look conventional. It is a police thriller, whose thrills last for about 2 minutes. And its subtle change of tone will either leave you in awe or make you scream to high heavens for wasting your time on this. Me - I was somewhere in the middle, leaning more towards the awe-inspired kind.

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans (2009)

As miserably dark as Abel Ferrara's Harvey Keitel-starring Bad Lieutenant (1992) was, this re-vamp takes the darkness to another level with added dozes of weird and supermassive-black-hole black humour. "Re-vamp" is the key word here. Perhaps going with the BSG route and calling this re-imagining may also work, but Werner Herzog's Lieutenant shares only superficial similarities to the "original". It not only takes the character and the circumstances to whole new levels of insanity, but comes out with a completely different story altogether. I have always had a man-movie-crush on Herzog and he insists on not letting me down. Welcome to the dark side.