Munchausen (2013)
- Directed by
- Ari Aster
- Genre
- silent film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 17 min
- Rating
- 6.7 of 10 from 71 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A boy preparing to leave for college has an overprotective mother who will do anything to keep him at home. Her manipulation escalates to frightening extremes.
unsettlingtenseclaustrophobicmelancholicslow-burndisturbingsilent
What happens
Munchausen is a 2014 American silent short horror film written and directed by Ari Aster. The film stars Liam Aiken as a boy about to go off to college, and Bonnie Bedelia as his overprotective mother who goes to great lengths to keep him from leaving her. The film is named for the phenomenon of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, "a behavior pattern in which a caregiver deliberately exaggerates, fabricates, and/or induces physical, psychological, behavioral, and/or mental health problems in those who are in their care." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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