maybe dont put so much thought into labeling it? just enjoy it for the whacked out movie that it is.

Its both, its like the sacred (art film) & the profane (schlock exploitation) exist side by side and cancel each other out to achieve this strange druggy lucidity by the time Jesus shows up, like a flower out of a pot of dirt. +/-

It has it's funny moments, but it's "so-uncomfortable-I-shouldn't-be-laughing" kind of laughs lol

Good question. I'd have to go with a serious piece of film making, although I have laughed at numerous scenes in the film. The same can be said about say Taxi Driver and the 'You talkin' to me?' scene. One man's mental breakdown shouldn't be funny, but there's something darkly humorous about it all.

Which way do you prefer?
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To me it can be viewed either way. It has enough artistic merit in it to be viewed as a totally serious, yet grim piece of film making and on the other hand it can be viewed late at night drunk whilst laughing out loud at the sheer over the topness of it all.