Bits of Lynch, Cronenberg, Michael Powell's Peeping Tom...all very complimentary allies. The so called Buddy Boy is like a more sinister and surreal Dustin Hoffman as the rain man, and the mother reminded me a little of the drug deluded mother in Requiem for a Dream. Does anyone else think this, or is just me reading into it too much?
Really liked this film...it surely should have 'cult' on its epitaph.
yeah i got those influences too frank..the way the walls seemed to breathe themselves also reminded me of barton fink,..another class film! Was obviously filmed for a claustrophobic feel.dragged the viewer right in,whether they wanted to or not,,clever..!felt a lot of roman polanski in their too,especially with the party scenes.and not forgetting the master,,Hitchcock!
shareThe Driller Killer, Psycho, Bad Boy Bubby...
"Americans are prudes who left Europe 'cos they hated all the kinky sex"
"Rear Window" immediately comes to mind. BTW, "We Americans" do not add the annoying extra vowel when spelling "neighborhood." eh Not much substance overall, but this film had enough visual goodies to keep one interested. The lead actor was convincing.
shareIt's a quote from a comedy (and an old sig, at that!) Not to be taken seriously…
"Your mother puts license plates in your underwear? How do you sit?!"
Comedic quote or not, the same way that We Americans spell Resembl(e)nce as Resembl(a)nce, we also do not add the extra vowel to Neighbors/Neighbo(u)rs. British do in fact use the original Queen's English, as opposed to the one that we adopted. I will admit that English sounds so much better when it flows from a British tongue (exluding Cockney of course eh). It has an air of sophistication to it. BTW, love Howlin' Wolf, but I dig Lead Belly more. The guy's lyrical & musical prowess was ahead of his contemporaries.
shareMostly, I picked up vibes of Polanski (Repulsion, The Tenant, Emmanuelle Seigner), Hitchcock (Rear Window), Lynch (Eraserhead), and De Palma (Blow out, Dressed to Kill). I have the DVD, and on the interview the director mentions Polanski and Hitchcock as influences, but those are some of the others I picked up. Can I ask the original poster, where exactly did you see the Cronenberg and Powell influences? I'm not saying they're not there, just that after one viewing I didn't see those in particular.
I liked this movie, but I really need to watch it again...
I don't want some renegade necrophile princess as MY roommate!
Francis really reminded me of Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, actually.
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Underneath the street, beneath the concrete
If you listen to the night, you can hear my heart beat
Loved this movie. As I watched it, I thought of many other movies, and yes no doubt the old lady was very simialr to Ellen Burstyn in Requiem for a Dream, which was a brillant movie in it's own right.
Definately strongly reminiscent of 1993 Australian film Bad Boy Bubby (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106341/), so much so that I thought initially that this may have been a US remake.
A lot of the Tenant, definately.
sharePsycho, anyone?
Too bad this film was not nearly as amazing as Hitchcock's masterpiece.
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