Please forgive me for not putting a still from this little four minutes of pure insanity (I wouldn't want to look at it ever time I signed on, it would scare the shit out of me). Allow me to explain my reasoning behind why this freaks film me out more than anything I have ever seen (and only being four minutes long and having this effect is rather impressive).
David Lynch (the man whos picture I decided to op for, a little less creepy, but not by much) is someone who I've known about for years, but never really paid any attention to (I was in my ignorant foreign film stage and wasn't going to watch anything from America in fear that it would burn my eyes out), and to be honest, as scary as he is, I regret not checking him out earlier.
But, they also say "ignorance is bliss" and that is an equally defendable side of this review. For the record, I don't think I have been this scared (or unsettled/disturbed, I don't really get scared) in a long time. I don't know if it is my fear of little girls or the alphabet (or both), but let me warn you about what you are about to get yourself into if deciding to watch this.
The girl in this film is the creepiest I have ever seen (forget what you think you know about creepy little girls, Lynch was the father of creepy girls) and that is what is unsettling about the whole thing. I'm not going to spend a lot of time talking about it
Because quite frankly, I don't like to. I don't like her. I'm sure she is a sweet girl in real life, but in this she is the illigitimate love child from the drunken orgy the girls from The Exorcist, The Ring, The Grudge, and just about every horror film the Japanese have ever made (and their sad American brethren). There was mud and no one knows who stuck what where, but the aftermath of it all is this chick.
The whole idea of this story stemmed from a nightmare his wife's niece (who I believe is the little girl in the film, but i'm not going to research it any, if it is important to you then by all means you have the power) had, where she was saying the alphabet in some kind of sick and demented (described as tormented) way.
If this does not tell you what the hell this is going to be about, then allow me to elaborate (but only for a minute), and please note that this is purely from memory (as I will never watch this ever again, ever), so if what I say doesn't sell it, then by all means go watch it on YouTube.
There is the alphabet being said by some creepy girl, along with some weird surreal animation of letters and what not flowing out of the body (through the neck) of some guy then it ends with the creepiest fucking child to ever walk the planet (it actually makes my eyes water thinking about it) reciting the alphabet while parading around a dark room on a white sheet in a bunch of stop-motion shots (I could have done without her getting up close to the camera) and then her tossing and turning in bed.
Just fucking weird, unsettling, disturbing, whatever the hell you want to call it. The dark end of the surreal spectrum pretty much sums up most (if not all) of Lynch's work.
This was the film that brought Lynch some minimal recognition and was the start (although one film came before this one, something about six guys getting sick six times...what the fuck?) to his very sucessful (i.e. creepy as hell) film career.
As I stated before, it is on YouTube, and only being four minutes long, so if you want to ruin your night (and the amount of hours of sleep you get) then by all means check it out (along with everything else he has made, truly a master at the craft).
This is just the start of the Lynch reviews mind you...
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