Freckled Max & the Spooks (Standard Edition) Members Only Director Shahram Mokri’s first feature

Director Shahram Mokri’s first feature is a delightfully offbeat B&W comedy about the mysterious workings of Fate

to the phantoms (literal and figurative) of the film industry

and podcaster Mike White (The Projection Booth)

sinuous Helm drives men to suicide and madness – including her own pseudo-father Wegener who succumbs to incestuous obsession with her

the more poignant and plaintive Varakin’s predicament – “I have to get back to Moscow

Freckled Max & the Spooks (Standard Edition) Members Only Director Shahram Mokri’s first featureFRECKLED MAX AND THE SPOOKS (PEHAV MAX A STRAIDL) 1987, Slovak Film Institute, 97 min. Dir. Juraj Jakubisko. "It all began under the Frankenstein castle. It was my tenth year with this circus troupe, and we were passing through a bleak territory of vampires, will o' the wisps and water sprites," observes young orphan Max (Martin Hrebe), just before he runs away and hides out in the ruins of the nearby castle. There he discovers a rogues gallery of