Strange Tales
This film opens with a title card saying 'Award winning anthology of tales.' I want to know what award that was.
The Visitant.
A guy follows his kids voice and is attacked very mildly by some kind of ghoul type thing. This has something of a mood for the beginning of it. There is an absolutely amazing and inventive shot of the ghoul coming after him where it's clearly on something being pulled at speed by a car. It has something of an Evil Dead feel to it. With it's inkling of mood and the ghoul stuff, this wasn't a bad effort at all.
Desire. In a Public Dump.
All in silent, a guy walks about a dump and finds a book. This seems to make a woman in a white dress show up who then just disappears. He is then stabbed with a pitchfork. A picture of a gorilla appears from nowhere on a door, then cut back to the dump with a kid playing with a toy gun, running about who finds the book. The end. This was awful and really lazy. It's something you and a mate could come up with, shoot and edit in about half a day.
A Day in the Life of Snidley Carmichael: A Sadistic Comedy.
Now there's a mouthful of a title. This one is pretty arty. The look of it screams student into avant grade cinema. A guy in a field avoids unseen planes that play over the soundtrack, along with sounds of war. He gets into a shack, the door closes, end. Get out of here with this waste of film and effort. Dreadful.
Twilight Journey
This is another pretentious arty piece. I'm starting to think all of these directors were friends and these are all their student art films. This has a nice shot of a woman with a dog like mask on and there's some really striking animated segments in this. But what it all means? Who knows. The animation actually reminds me a lot of the old games Flashback and Another World. It all looks very nice, but doesn't do much with it.
The Crystal Quest
A dude dressed like he's in an Italian post apocalyptic film ventures down a more sci-fi looking hatch than his attire would assume. He's then on an Indiana Jones style adventure with snakes, a statue that opens it's mouth and a couple of pretty cool creatures. This was quite fun and again is mostly silent. I'm also going to assume none of these friends actually owned a microphone or at least just borrowed one for a day.
The Bus Bench
An old woman puts make up on. Some people sit on a bench. Amum and her daughter feed the ducks. Random footage randomly edited together. The most pretentious of a very pretentious bunch. Again silent.
A couple of the shorts hold a small amount of value, but it's mostly just dull and feels thrown together in half a day with minimal effort. There's a reason this is so obscure.
