• A group of twenty-somethings (Pamela Xiong, Christine Lee, Ten-Headed Skeleton, Aryana Hamzehloo, Matthew Lin, Justin Kang, Alena Lakha, Yoko Inoue) are on their way to a mutual friends party through ever-changing landscapes - and it sure becomes clear that the group is anything but homogenous, so their hike turns into one bickering treck - and then, gradually, one by one they start disappearing into thin air ...
• A woman (Lis Bomb) tries to bar herself from some evil in her room. But the evil, whether real. or imagined, is relentless ...
• A silent goth girl (Ashley Carroway) leads through downtown LA.
• Affter the apocalypse: Jack  (Ten-Headed Skeleton) and Wendy (Natalie Stockwell) have depended on only one another for years now, fending their way through a decaying city, killing others when necessary, and eating humans should need arise - and through all of this, they have never been anything more than just best friends. But then, one Halloween, they're visited by Susan (Susan Kurata), an overly positive woman who just wants to make friends - and their world is turned upside down ...

As you might have already guessed from the not quite ordinary title, this is not your run-of-the-mill movie but rather an avantgarde anthology that's somewhat  rooted in the horror genre. And while the middle two segments are more mood pieces than anything else, the bookends are actual narrative pieces taking on genre tropes, subverting them in very unusual ways and then adding irony and black humour to the proceedings but also plenty of absurdities to catch the audience off-guard ever so often. And all of this results in a very rewarding watch - provided you enjoy your genre entertainment from the weird side of things.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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