A visceral descent into depths of a depraved mind, Paranoid takes the viewer on a dark trail into the roots of insanity where only fragments of reality remain to color the desperate existence of a tortured woman.
Sound
The song adaptation drives every frame's frantic rhythm.
Direction
Holben packs feature-length dread into 480 seconds.
Director
Jay Holben
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was a 'Dollar Baby'—Stephen King sold the film rights to his poem for exactly one dollar to student filmmakers, a program that launched countless horror careers.
The faceless men were literally shot without facial lighting, forcing the audience to project their own fears onto blank masks—pure psychological manipulation on a shoestring budget.
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