A lonely blind man, a murderous mannequin, and the weirdest crush you'll see this week.
Director David Schmoeller's thesis film about a blind man who lives alone in a theater attic. He falls in love with a strange female mannequin who turns out to be quite animated and deadly.
Practical Effects
Janky mannequin effects that somehow work better than expensive CGI
Direction
Schmoeller's cramped attic compositions build claustrophobic dread
Sound
Creaking theater acoustics replace a traditional score
Director
David Schmoeller
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Schmoeller shot this 30-minute thesis at USC in 1976, years before his cult classic Tourist Trap (1979) essentially remade the same premise with a bigger budget.
The cramped 16mm aesthetic and theatrical setting directly influenced his later work—this is the raw DNA of his entire career, preserved in academic amber.
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