A surreal horror film with high-contrast lighting similar to film noir and a unceasing proto-industrial score instead of dialogue. (There’s another version of this called Daughter of Horror with a more typical score and lots of narration. I watched some of it and the unnerving effect is totally lost.) I’ve never seen anything like it, and I’ve seen a lot of movies. The style reminded me at times of Eraserhead, A Page of Madness, the avant-garde short Meshes of the Afternoon, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and the films of Ed Wood. There’s a lot of visual and aural creativity in the storytelling, but a fair amount of it could also be taken as silly and it sometimes plays like a film student’s graduate project. Clocking in under an hour, it certainly wasn’t difficult to watch and it’s such an original experimental gem I find myself returning to quite frequently.
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