Cat-athon entry #4/9
My cat-athon is reaching an all-time low. Somehow absurd yet entirely banal, it takes over an hour for Eye of the Cat to do anything interesting—and even then it’s far from original.
First of all, the ‘main’ cat is an orange, which just isn’t threatening at all. We do eventually get cat swarms, which is nice.
Second of all, I hate having to stare at this guy’s god awful haircut the whole time. It’s insane.
Most scenes…
The shaky handheld, harsh violence, and flamenco tremolos bring a radically different tone to the series—more jagged and aggressive. This is a town without much to redeem. There’s more drinking here...a showdown. We even see horseback riding for the first time—it’s really like a western, hurtling toward late 60's spaghetti status.
So, I watched this 11-minute short, then immediately watched this 100-minute analysis on YouTube.
The bottom line is This House Has People In It is less of a short film and more of a web of creepy websites, pictures, databases, emails, and videos, and you'd really be missing the point of the short if you didn't explore any of it.
It's like a creepypasta short. While I wouldn't want this to be a trend, I do think it's an incredibly…
This is something else, even for Cronenberg. Meditative and melancholy with a dark dose of kitsch, story takes a backseat to a weird array of characters discussing Cronenberg’s typical obsessions.
But even with a danger of coming across too directly, beneath the skin Cronenberg examines himself through Tenser; afraid of the evolution of modern horror, the film regresses, mixing devolving technology with new bodies. (The title is the same as one of his earliest films after all.)
Crimes of the…
