El Topo
《鼴鼠》（1970）

TIME's 1971 review of Chilean-Russian director Alejandro Jodorowsky's El Topo (The Mole) described the allegorical cult western film as "a vivid if ultimately passionless passion play." The film's 1970 trailer proclaimed, "It is a mystic film. It is tender. It is sexual." It is also a bit strange. A mysterious cowboy kills a group of outlaws before abandoning his naked son to ride off with a woman. El Topo (played by Jodorowsky) then embarks on a series of bizarre adventures. He challenges and defeats the four great gun masters of the land and then is betrayed by a woman with a man's voice who shoots him, leaving stigmata wounds. After El Topo heals and finds religious enlightenment, he begins an affair with a dwarf woman and helps a group of outcasts escape from a subterranean prison, only to see them massacred by cultists. That's when things really get weird. El Topo was a cult favorite at midnight showings in New York City before finally being released on DVD in 2007.

《時代周刊》在1971年這樣評論俄籍智利導演亞歷桑德羅·左杜洛夫斯基寓意豐富的cult電影《鼴鼠》“這是一部本質上毫無生氣，卻又栩栩如生的受難電影”。本片1970年的預告片宣稱這是一部“充滿神秘色彩的電影，溫柔，并性感”。這也是一部與眾不同的電影。一位神秘的牛仔殺死了一幫暴徒，然后拋棄了自己的兒子并用一位女子一同流浪。隨后，牛仔“鼴鼠”（左杜洛夫斯基飾）經歷了一系列光怪陸離的事件。他想“四大槍手”下戰書并打敗了他們，被一個假扮成男子的女人背叛，而且這個女人差點用手槍結束了他的性命。“鼴鼠”養好自己身上的槍傷后，又受到宗教的感化，并同一位侏儒相愛。他幫助一幫流浪漢越獄，但有眼睜睜地看著他們被邪教分子殺害。故事就是這么瘋狂。在2007年DVD版發行前，《鼴鼠》一直都是紐約午夜場cult電影（午夜場電影通常為色情暴力影片，譯者注）的大熱門。