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Mannikin
Can't think of a movie more so, even accounting for the protagonist being a pre-teen girl as opposed to a male adult, and for the "happy ending."
Grounded in a real world, but not a Kafkaesque enterprise, as were, say, Shadows and Fog, or Barton Fink. Looking at an ordinary apartment tower and saying, "It is real!" The standing stones, and at the end the helicopter.
Made in 1988 and seen by me then and remembered every few years, and then associated by me with Ligotti in the late nineties, but hazily, and not re-viewed for fear of let-down and mal-association until recently, when re-viewed in chunks on You-Tube; not the best way but acceptable since it had been viewed theatrically once, and then all was affirmed.
Paperhouse, perhaps the most Ligottian ever.
Grounded in a real world, but not a Kafkaesque enterprise, as were, say, Shadows and Fog, or Barton Fink. Looking at an ordinary apartment tower and saying, "It is real!" The standing stones, and at the end the helicopter.
Made in 1988 and seen by me then and remembered every few years, and then associated by me with Ligotti in the late nineties, but hazily, and not re-viewed for fear of let-down and mal-association until recently, when re-viewed in chunks on You-Tube; not the best way but acceptable since it had been viewed theatrically once, and then all was affirmed.
Paperhouse, perhaps the most Ligottian ever.
