Gene Wilder & Karen Black’s Hilarious Movie Like Animorphs Is Now Streaming for Free

A bizarre Gene Wilder and Karen Black movie that feels like a live-action Animorphs is now streaming for free. Directed by Tom O’Horgan, the film was released in 1974 and received mixed critical reception.

Rhinoceros can now be streamed for free on YouTube. The is based on Eugène Ionesco’s famous 1959 absurdist play. The play serves as a political allegory for conformity and the rise of fascism.

Animorphs is a science-fantasy series written by K.A. Applegate. The middle-grade books features six main characters who take turns narrating the stories from their own perspectives.

Like the Animorphs book series, whose covers depicted people transforming into animals, Rhinoceros follows a boozing young man in love with his co-worker who finds that everyone around him. Even his pompous and condescending best friend, is changing into a rhinoceros.

What is Rhinoceros with Gene Wilder about?

Rhinoceros sees Stanley as a depressed, heavy-drinking office worker who feels out of place in modern urban life. He harbors an unspoken love for his coworker, Daisy, played by Karen Black.

However, things go awry when, one by one, people in the community inexplicably begin inexplicably transforming into rhinoceroses. This includes Stanley’s best friend, John, played by Zero Mostel.

As the strange phenomenon takes over the entire town, Stanley chooses to stand his ground. Refusing to conform to the mindless herd mentality, Stanley chooses to stand his ground in defiance.

The absurdist comedy from 1974 Rhinoceros features an ensemble cast that includes Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Karen Black, Joe Silver, Robert Weil, Marilyn Chris, Percy Rodrigues, Robert Fields, Melody Santangello, and Don Calfa.

Much like the animal transformations in Animorphs, the physical transformations in Rhinoceros serve a deeper purpose. They serve as a satirical allegory for conformity and the rise of fascism.

Source: Comingsoon.net