… or, the House is a Lonely Hunter.
House of Last Things (2013)
I have no idea what to make of this movie. Either it’s a satire working on so high a level it went wa-a-ay over my head, or it’s The Room 2: Haunted Room. What starts as a fairly intriguing, technically-excellent story of interwoven fates soon skips a couple of grooves and tries to make itself a “meaningful” horror movie. Trouble is, the film-makers are even more ham-fisted with their attempts at symbolism than they are doing straight horror.
But… was this intentional? Were they trying to match form and substance, in a movie about the deadening effect of Suburbia? Maybe you can tell me…
Will Laughlin is the Braineater.
#1 by Mark on March 2, 2015 - 3:09 pm
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The IMDB page suggests it’s “The Room 2”.
#2 by RogerBW on March 8, 2015 - 11:22 am
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Well, I have known two people who apparently had a simple phobia of balloons. But I assume nobody here is suggesting that.
Quite a few Americans seem to regard classical music as a class marker of “rich effete snobs, as opposed to real Americans” – that’s certainly the way it tends to get used on TV.