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  Review by Jeff Light ★★★

  This is the 2nd short film from Alex Proyas, who directed my beloved The Crow and Dark City. He creates incredible visuals and atmosphere, and as you might suspect, both are already apparent here.

  There's not much actual story here though, just some bookends with a Twilight Zone-ish setup. The middle part is essentially all trippy music video, but seems way ahead of its time for 1981.

  You can watch it on Proyas' own Youtube channel here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gG537FCZ1Q

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  Review by Kai Perrignon ★★★½

  Proof that Alex Proyas could have nailed the video for “Frontier Psychiatrist”.

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  Review by Conor Herbert ★★★★½

  The second short from Alex Proyas rocks.

  It's slim, it's compelling, and it's a well-put-together homage to 'The Twilight Zone' that includes some really beautiful cinematography and a dazzling display of lightworks. It knows how to play to its strengths and minimize its liabilities, but even then, it feels like there's some sly ambition in the modest premise and dialogue-free structure.

  It doesn't reinvent the wheel, but of all the wheels I've seen on this here wheel binge, it's amongst the roundest and sturdiest.

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  Review by Ian Winter ★★★½

  My burnout uncle told me of an acid trip like this once, but he was listening to Dark Side of the Moon. Typical boomer.

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  Review by Mantasumi ★★½

  Seltsamer Kurzfilm, der mich von der Gestaltung eher an ein bizarres Musikvideo erinnert hat. Ich mochte jedenfalls die experimentelle Storyline und das schräge Schauspiel, das zur Musik gepasst hat. Ansonsten noch nennenswert sind coole Szenerien und ziemlich veraltete Spezialeffekte.

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  Review by Alex ★★★★

  Pretty visually stimulating. Kinda what I imagine it's like to do shrooms before watching Adult Swim bumpers... or maybe this is what goes through the mind of a Vinyl purist when they try to describe why Vinyl is superior to any other form of music.
  Nice Clockwork Orange nod with the wide shot in the record store.

  I wonder what that Austrailian David Attenborough guy did after this?

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  Review by Nic_RTT

  Watched this twice, once while I was making tea, and then immediately again when I was drinking it.

  It's a fun, Twilight Zone inspired romp that wears its inspiration on its sleeve. It's also surprisingly well done, the only technical flaw I had with it that took away from its quality for me was the lack of flow with the light painting, but that's outweighed by the fact that they had light painting in there to begin with!

  Also, shout out Colin for that physical performance, it was commendable, especially combined with the lighting they had going in the hallway. It's that special type of film making where you can explain how they did every single part of the fantastical…

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  Review by Hogfather ★★★★

  For what is essentially a student film, this is very visually arresting. From this, I'm even more interested to see what Dark City is like.

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  Review by Chris Gerrard ★★½

  I didn't get much out of this until about two-thirds of the way through, when there is a set of fascinating and exciting visuals, especially considering it was made in '81. I'd probably recommend just watching that part, which would make a great abstract film.