6. The Birdcage
For Gene Hackmans conservative senator, theres nothing worse than having to spend the night having dinner with his soon to be brothers-in-law, the flamboyantly gay Armand and Albert. And thats just in the original version. In the horror version, things truly start to get nightmarish. Those aren't eggs in the sweet and sour soup theyre eyeballs! Armands discotheque, the Birdcage, is actually a corner of hell where sinners burn up on the dance floor. I mean literally, they are set alight as demons whoop it up and dance around in their thongs and go-go boots. Senator Keeley has to watch in revulsion as Agador Spartacus eats the entrails of his wife as Armand sings show tunes
I could have danced and daaaaaanced All niiiiiiiggght! The terror only ends when Albert, looking darling in drag, beats him into a bloody pulp with a giant bowl patterned with little Greek boys playing leapfrog. Phewf, good thing Senator Keeley wakes up and it was all a dream! NOT, that sort of ending is for pussies. Senator Keeley is in fact trapped in eternal torment, a Moebius strip where he has to re-live that awful dinner party again And again And again