It's dark and unsettling so they go downstairs, build a pillow/blanket fort and watch old Merry Melodies cartoons on VHS.
Things are not right. Fundamental things like doors and then the toilet simply disappear. There are whispers in the dark.
CW: children in peril, constant flickering lights
Kyle Edward Ball's viral indie horror sensation is too long, too weird and too unfinished but nonetheless terribly compelling.
This is from the very extreme end of a very small niche of "reality is broken" psychological horror where a more digestible example would be the chilling Vivarium.
Slowly we find out, or don't, little things about an unhappy childhood, maybe a dead mother and some violence.
There is a voice, or voices, in the dark making suggestions you strain to hear but is often subtitled.
Objects move and end up in illogical places like the wall or ceiling. At some point as all the things gather in a pile a title card simply says "572 days" and it feels like it.
There is little performance from the child actors mostly it's delivered purely by sound design with the camera pointed at a ceiling, floor or doorway. Sometimes the TV fills the screen.
Then it ends, thankfully but I'd say it deserves 7/10 for commitment to truly experimental filmmaking.