Jeremy_Urquhart

Probably the shortest film I've ever tried to review. This makes Godzilla Meets Bambi look epic in comparison. What we've got here is a person made of produce, and the produce is rotting, and so the person is rotting. They're tied down. There are police sirens at one point, but I don't know if that's from the short film or from the outside world, because it's been very stormy today and emergency vehicles might just be everywhere.

Not only has this taken longer to write than it took to watch Flora, but if you've read all this, it's probably taken longer to read than it takes to watch Flora. It's Jan Svankmajer boiled down to his bare essentials, but it's just too short to be as impactful as his longer shorts.

It's also an MTV production, which is odd, so I'm guessing it was just used as a bumper to fill time between programs or music videos or whatever. One of those weird things they used to show back in the old television days. Cable days? Knowing how MTV worked is a bit before my time, really.

Those who remember MTV might themselves be rotting away like beings made of vegetables. It happens to the best of us, so Flora seems to argue. Or it says nothing and was just an eye-catching way to take up about 36 seconds of airtime. What mysteries abound, even if they've sprouted up from so little.

Absolutely mortifying. It was a body horror movie and it made me feel sick, so well-done, Mermaid in a Man-Hole.

It's only an hour long, and it's a very different "man meets a mermaid" sort of story than what you've seen before. There was some movie called Miranda from the 1940s, and another around the same time, if we're talking live-action stuff. Both much less horrifying.

In the story here, the man's a painter, she's falling apart and slowly becoming more infected, and he wants to try and paint here but then things really start falling apart. And the infections get obscenely distressing to look at.

It's very one-note, and there's really only one clear direction it can go in, at a point, but it continually ups itself in terms of gross-out imagery. The effects are mostly well-done, too. I didn't really know what I was looking at much of the time, and wasn't sure whether learning would make things grosser or less gross (for an example of knowing making something less gross, I always think about how they used chocolate for the "worst toilet in Scotland" scene in Trainspotting, so it actually smelt nice).

It's another one of those movies that is good, but I also wouldn't recommend it to 99.9% of people out there. Because good god.

In 1963, inside a Japanese arthouse cinema, the directors of An Eater were like, "Isn't it crazy how food sometimes looks like people?" And then the crowd of people assembled there responded, "What?" And the directors said, "Hear us out," and they showed this 23-minute-long short film, but it's 10 minutes of people eating for the first half. And the people kept saying, "What?" But then the directors got to the food humans part. And things got weird. And the people kept saying, "What?" but deep down, they almost knew what the directors were going for. A couple of people even dug how the whole thing successfully conveyed a surreal/dreamlike/nightmarish feeling after it stopped messing around with all those scenes of people eating in absolute silence, but they didn't admit it to anyone. None of the people knew what to make of the final five minutes, though. Neither did the directors, but they didn't admit it to anyone.

I have it on good authority that this really happened.