Avaliação por framptonhollis

'Transfer' was mediocre at best, but 'From the Drain' is even less impressive. On a technical level, it is definitely superior in various respects, although it still has an amateurish quality to it, which sometimes works to a film's advantage, but in this case it doesn't really do much to help or hurt the film. The main technical issue I have is the score, which could work if it wasn't playing throughout the literal entirety of this 12 minute short. It's some relaxing acoustic soundtrack that's alright for a minute and could work as an ironic accompaniment for this darkly comic short in small, spread out chunks, but instead it's just extended throughout the full 12 minutes of the film. It gets very annoying, especially since I actually made myself sit through this short twice in a row b/c on my first viewing, the copy I watched was so bad I couldn't really see much of what was going on. I suddenly saw there was another copy readily available to me that actually looked...acceptable, so I made myself sit through the same film all over again, which I had already decided was a tedious short with only a select few real merits (the editing is decent, particularly for a film of this obvious a small budget, and I like some of the camerawork, the color copy is well restored, the special effects are campy and kinda bad but they're charming and fit the tone of the short, which isn't particularly serious nor should it really be, etc.), and it's shocking that this was made by the same man who, years later, would craft such legitimate masterpieces as 'Videodrome', 'The Fly', 'Naked Lunch', and so on.