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The Segment: "This House Has People In It" (2016)
The Show: "Infomercials"
Where You Can Stream It: HBO Max, YouTube, Adult Swim
The Pitch: You'll notice I added a section to our usual "Daily Stream" set-up for this one, so allow me to explain. Adult Swim — a network that is now reflexively mentioned when anyone brings up exciting surreal horror in 2022 — has an ongoing shorts series in which they give filmmakers free rein to reinterpret the infomercial style however they see fit. It's not always how you'd picture it — some of the shorts don't even resemble a conventional infomercial. But the series saw many experiments in the concept with varying results.
One of the most strangely successful of these experiments is...
The Segment: "This House Has People In It" (2016)
The Show: "Infomercials"
Where You Can Stream It: HBO Max, YouTube, Adult Swim
The Pitch: You'll notice I added a section to our usual "Daily Stream" set-up for this one, so allow me to explain. Adult Swim — a network that is now reflexively mentioned when anyone brings up exciting surreal horror in 2022 — has an ongoing shorts series in which they give filmmakers free rein to reinterpret the infomercial style however they see fit. It's not always how you'd picture it — some of the shorts don't even resemble a conventional infomercial. But the series saw many experiments in the concept with varying results.
One of the most strangely successful of these experiments is...
- 1/10/2023
- by Lex Briscuso
- Slash Film
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