Notable Cast: Dennis Haysbert, Mel Harris, Sab Shinmono, Dina
Merrill, Michael Harris, David Graf, Fran Ryan, John Ingle, Sandy Gibbons, Mark
Demichele, Sandra Lafferty
One of the beautiful things about doing coverage for cult
cinema is that one gets to dig into the lost films. Films that are forgotten,
overlooked pieces of ambitious and often edgy material. Sometimes they are
forgotten for legitimate reasons, but sometimes they seem to be forgotten
simply because they didn’t make a splash in the historical placement of film. Suture is one of those forgotten films,
perhaps due to its lacking foundations as a film, but it’s one that carries
such a strangely fantastical concept and an artful approach to it that it seems
shocking that it hasn’t been one mentioned more often in the cinephile circles.
The film is flawed, as many debut features from ambitious film makers are, but
it’s something of an intriguing experience and one that more artful cinephiles
will want to take another look at – particularly with this new Arrow Video Blu
Ray that really presents it in such a strong manner. If anything, Suture is the
kind of cult cinema that deserves to be uncovered…warts and all.