You can definitely feel its DNA in the early mumblecore of Andrew Bujalski, Lena Dunham, and others, and it’s basically the blueprint for Frances Ha. Lovely film.

Side note: I knew I recognized the protagonist’s best friend Anne from somewhere and, sure enough, by pure coincidence, I watched the only other movie Anita Skinner ever appeared in just last week! She played the lead in the creepy slow-burn horror film Sole Survivor (1984), which was similarly ahead of its time and seemed to serve as the prototype for films made decades later—in this case, Final Destination and It Follows.

It’s not about the bunnies...

Is it about the bunnies?

An early-’80s art-horror nightmare with a post-punk/new wave soundtrack featuring Hunters & Collectors and XTC. I’m not sure whether the disjointed fever-dream aesthetic was arrived at via intent or ineptitude (or a little of both), but it doesn’t matter. This is weird, fascinating regional horror for which terms like “good” or “bad” just don’t apply. I was mesmerized.

And those phone calls are fucking unnerving. Jesus Christ.