{"id":16965,"date":"2024-11-05T21:00:41","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T02:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=16965"},"modified":"2024-11-01T15:49:47","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T19:49:47","slug":"me-shocktober-shorts-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/16965","title":{"rendered":"Me & Shocktober Shorts 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

Me<\/em> (2024, Don Hertzfeldt)<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Don Hertzfeldt dystopian jukebox musical? This made my heartbeat shift in a weird way. I’m going to try to stop thinking about it for the rest of the night, will revisit at a later date.<\/p>\n

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\nGUO4<\/em> (2019, Peter Strickland)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Montage of still photographs set to (good) pounding noise music. Nude male locker room wrestling? Filmed after In Fabric<\/a><\/em>, a time when he was clearly going through some things.<\/p>\n

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\nNotes on Monstropedia<\/em> (2017, Koji Yamamura)<\/strong><\/p>\n

I think it’s Edward Gorey with some Adult Swim thrown in, and inexplicable harpsichord music – either the combo isn’t working or the translation is off or it’s just not clever enough. A lesser work from the Mt. Head<\/em> \/ Country Doctor<\/em> animator.<\/p>\n

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\nThe Curse of Dracular<\/em> (2023, Jack Paterson)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cute claymation retelling of the British Dracula movies as written by the director’s dad when he was nine. Worth it for the ending, when a five year-old says “don’t like you” and kills Dracular easily.<\/p>\n

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\nThe Tell-Tale Heart<\/em> (2008, Robert Eggers)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ornate live-action movie with stop-motion tendencies, maybe Quay-inspired, and the rich old man played by a muppet. This movie loves clocks, and it’s right, clocks are cool. Shocking to hear spoken dialogue for the first time three-quarters through the film. The actual heartbeat part is very short, this guy is driven mad pretty easily. What is this “inspired by” credit when it’s a straight adaptation?<\/p>\n

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\nThe Events at Mr. Yamamoto\u2019s Alpine Residence<\/em> (2015, Tilman Singer)<\/strong><\/p>\n

In a similar secluded fancy euro-house to the Cuckoo<\/a><\/em> home, tennis girl opens a package unleashing a self-expanding white balloon that consumes everything. Everything I watch this weekend<\/a> reminds me of The Prisoner<\/a><\/em>. I don’t know that this was “any good” or “made sense” but it is fun to make and watch movies.<\/p>\n

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\nThe House of the Plague<\/em> (1979, Zlatko Pavlinic)<\/strong><\/p>\n

The plague is personified as a purple-eyed woman in mummy bandages. This is animation in a loose sense, drawings cross-faded. A woman coming home into town gets blackmailed into bringing the plague along. The plague-process images are cool but the movie’s main stylistic triumph is the rhyming (in Croatian) roboticized narrator.<\/p>\n

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\nLight, Noise, Smoke, and Light, Noise, Smoke<\/em> (2023, Tomonari Nishikawa)<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’m glad this rhythmically edited montage of fireworks with a garbage soundtrack brought joy to the avant-garde cinephiles last year. Fireworks are cool, it’s true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Me (2024, Don Hertzfeldt) A Don Hertzfeldt dystopian jukebox musical? This made my heartbeat shift in a weird way. I’m going to try to stop thinking about it for the rest of the night, will revisit at a later date. – GUO4 (2019, Peter Strickland) Montage of still photographs set to (good) pounding noise music. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[96,679,316,3155,1665,1896,2075,21,2690,2807],"class_list":["post-16965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-animation","tag-don-hertzfeldt","tag-edgar-allen-poe","tag-koji-yamamura","tag-peter-strickland","tag-plague","tag-robert-eggers","tag-shorts","tag-tilman-singer","tag-tomonari-nishikawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16965"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17004,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16965\/revisions\/17004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}