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Mundanity is built into this nostalgia-infused dread.
But the idea of the movie is more beguiling than the overall experience of watching it.
Ball got his start makingYouTubeshorts inspired by commenters nightmares, and has been compared to David Lynch.
The house is the point, this bustling domestic place turned into an eerie limbo.
These barren spaces are invitingly apocalyptic, not because theyre overgrown and decayed, but because they arent.
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