What a weird little movie. Weird not in the sense of it having any especially bizarre content compared to some of the nonsense that I typically watch, but rather because I have no fucking clue whom the intended target audience for it could have possibly been. I shit you not, this a young teen movie that on the surface would basically be at home as some sort of after-school special airing on Nickelodeon after a rerun of Salute Your Shorts…

My 3,000th watch on Letterboxd, and I can think of no better film to celebrate it with.

Okay, I can fully understand why such a high percentage of the people who have actually seen this aren’t into it (it has a rating of 2.7 on IMDB, but that says more about IMDB than it does Pbt4DW[AToD]), and I acknowledge that it’s a huge fucking mess with infinite problems, BUT… goddamn, did I ever end up loving this! It is visually…

Look, I know there are a fair amount of films and shorts that get called “an homage to gialli”, and a lot of times, that means you get the inclusion of a POV black-gloves-holding-a-razor shot (which this has), maybe a few color gels (which this also has!), but that’ll basically be it. It’ll be missing the dreamy [insert Italian equivalent of je ne sais quoi here] that makes it feel like the director gets it on a primal level. Silver…