Ralph Bakshi piles on the sleaze in the trailer for his latest short
Still mining the same vein of grotesque unease that’s been the hallmark of much of his storied career, Fritz The Cat and Cool World director Ralph Bakshi has released a nightmarish trailer for his latest short, Last Days Of Coney Island. Introduced by a voiceover from Bakshi, in which the animation legend waxes poetic on the untold stories of Brooklyn in the 1960s, the trailer wastes little time in waging a full-on assault on good taste, cutting almost immediately to the Zapruder footage of JFK getting shot in the head. Not content to show the assassination merely once, Bakshi cuts back to the shot again and again, interspersing it with sketchy animation of his vile, long-necked characters fighting and screeching at each other in a Bosch-esque vision of Hell.