Eddie: The Sleepwalking Cannibal Eddie: The Sleepwalking Cannibal
2013 Directed by Boris Rodriguez
Synopsis
Part muse. Part sleepwalking cannibal.
A once-famous painter rediscovers inspiration when he befriends a sleepwalking cannibal.
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Just missed completely. A scene here and there is competently made and the rating may be a little harsh but movies that don't really try anything annoy me. The film is smug and there is a real sense that the director thought he was being brilliant. The radio bits bugged me to no end as they thought they were so on the nose I still look like Rudolph.
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Review from Next Projection
Inspiration, that oddest of things, arrives to us all from the most unexpected of places at the most inconvenient of times. Rarely do the rituals we commonly adopt to aid the creative drive—in whatever form we choose to manifest it, from the traditional arts to computer programming to whatever we turn to in order to express ourselves—have as much impact as those sudden bursts of uncontrollable compulsion, the circumstances of which we become desperate to recreate. It’s this inspiration the famed but fading painter Lars experiences when he bears witness to the awful act alluded to in the title of Eddie the Sleepwalking Cannibal, a delightfully strange Danish-Canadian horror-comedy from writer/director Boris Rodriguez.
The eponymous character…
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A painter struggling with a creativity block seeks artistic inspiration by manipulating a mute, sleepwalking retard into murdering strangers in the night. I know you're thinking you've seen this a thousand times before, but here's where it get's interesting...
It doesn't. Never mind.
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Ramaskrik 2012 #10
Surprisingly enough this was a much more serious film than I thought beforehand. And that may have been its biggest flaw. Lars is a Danish painter with huge success in the past, who for no obvious reason moves to a small Canadian town to work as an arts teacher. Well, good for him, he gets along well with 99 percent of the staff who are just so happy to have him.
There's a catch though, he has to take a student into his home to care for. This is Eddie, a fully grown man with certain limitations in life. Lars's artistic career has hit a dry spell, as it seems his most creative period was connected to…
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Forget the silly title. This is a fantastic black hearted comedy/horror. Murder, cannibalism and love combine all for the love of art.
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Review from Next Projection
Inspiration, that oddest of things, arrives to us all from the most unexpected of places at the most inconvenient of times. Rarely do the rituals we commonly adopt to aid the creative drive—in whatever form we choose to manifest it, from the traditional arts to computer programming to whatever we turn to in order to express ourselves—have as much impact as those sudden bursts of uncontrollable compulsion, the circumstances of which we become desperate to recreate. It’s this inspiration the famed but fading painter Lars experiences when he bears witness to the awful act alluded to in the title of Eddie the Sleepwalking Cannibal, a delightfully strange Danish-Canadian horror-comedy from writer/director Boris Rodriguez.
The eponymous character…
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A painter struggling with a creativity block seeks artistic inspiration by manipulating a mute, sleepwalking retard into murdering strangers in the night. I know you're thinking you've seen this a thousand times before, but here's where it get's interesting...
It doesn't. Never mind.
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57/100
A.V. Club review. Generally clumsy filmmaking, but it's a decent idea—much more trenchant than Eating Raoul, which it somewhat resembles. ANAL-RETENTIVE NOTE: The onscreen title is just plain Eddie. Evidently they're trying to make it more commercial. Or at least less likely to be mistaken for a Whoopi Goldberg basketball comedy.
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A Letterboxd év végi summázásában futottam bele ebbe a címbe, és a trailer megnézése nélkül beszereztem. Eddie, aki egy alvajáró kannibál? Már a cím megvett.
Főhősünk, Lars, egy mocskosul tehetséges festő, de éppen alkotói válságban van. Egy eldugott kis városkába megy feltöltődni, mint tanár, ahol megismerkedik Eddie-vel, a zárkózott, enyhén retardált csávóval. Már az elején figyelmeztetik, hogy bánjon vele rendesen, mivel az anyja támogatja a sulit. Egy "véletlen" folytán összeköltöznek és már az első este fény derül Eddie sötét is titkára: alvajáró. Ja, és kannibál.
Lars pedig az első lemészárolt nyuszi láttán iheletet kap...
Kellemes kis film volt, nem váltja meg a világot persze, de egyszeri kikapcsolódásnak tökéletesen megteszi.
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It might not actually be deserving of that fourth star, but it really is a good movie. There are certainly flaws, but its charming and not at all what I expected. I can’t say it merits too many rewatches but I don’t think I’d have any problem watching it again someday.
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An artist struggling to recapture his mojo joins a small town arts college in the middle of nowhere with the intention of settling down to teach but stumbles across a new muse that reinvigorates his creativity ... the only trouble is that it's a sleepwalking cannibal. This is a great little Danish / Canadian collaboration that has humour, tension, gore and romance all captured with a small town feel.
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My review on Twitch:
With a title that screams "campy fun ahead," Eddie -The Sleepwalking Cannibal both telegraphs its pleasures and sells them short. Yes, this Danish-Canadian co-production is pure fun from its first moment to its last (and beyond: stay for the credits), but it's not relying solely on winking, tongue-in-cheekiness. Not even close. Combining a winning fish-out-of-water tale ("Denmark, where's that? Europe?") with, believe it or not, elements of a classic screwball comedy, director Boris Rodriguez does a terrific job of entertaining us even without all the ghoulishly well-done horror. So when that stuff hits the screen, yeah, the movie officially enters overload territory.
The screwball component comes from the basic plot contrivance. Renowned but apparently burnt-out painter…
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90 Minutes"Part Muse. Part Sleepwalking Cannibal"
This tagline explains perfectly what Eddie is and how crazy this movie is. By the way the story is told, it really doesn't seem to be insane and disturbing as it really is, and that is just amazing! Eddie is a really fun movie, without any pretentious and with a lot of heart, great moments, unusual plot, nice characters, lots of gore. It definitely deserves more attention, it can't be missed like that.
Great poster, by the way.