Rodrigo Goulão de Sousa’s Brief ‘Uncanny Alley’ Finds Horror In The Mundane Moments Of Every day Life
The eerie quick movie Uncanny Alley arrives on-line through Grownup Swim’s Smalls shorts program. Be certain that there’s a lightweight on earlier than you dive into this one.
With out making a gift of an excessive amount of, let’s simply keep that there’s a horrifying-looking man-creature lurking at a lady in an empty cinema, wormlike creatures effervescent to the floor, distorted bloodied our bodies, floating corporeal constructions, bedside critters, and a tricycle driving frog.
If Charles Burns and David Lynch had been melded collectively, they ooze out within the type of animator Rodrigo Goulão de Sousa, whose city horror quick combines three tales: “The Screening,” “The Evening Shift,” and “The Roommate.” Like Burns and Lynch, de Sousa finds his horror within the on a regular basis and within the seemingly mundane moments of life: a cinema, a swimming pool, an residence.
What elevates the movie past typical shock fare is the masterful pacing and sound design (courtesy of Jérémy Ben Ammar). There’s a continuing, disturbing quietness and stillness that retains you continuously on the sting, by no means fairly sure what’s coming subsequent.
De Sousa, a Portuguese director and animator who lives in France, is a graduate of the acclaimed French faculty Gobelins the place he co-directed the movie Tales of the Salt Water (2021) His work will be discovered on his Youtube channel, which has just lately been hacked, in accordance with his X account:
@TeamYouTube my yt channel (https://t.co/gFNvrX9a2e) / google accounts have been hacked and all methods to recuperate them have been blocked by the hacker.
I’ve 174k followers & a part of my wage comes from yt.
Is there any method to get my account again?Please share& retweet thx
— rodrigosousa (@rodrigo09078701) August 20, 2024
He’s presently engaged on one other horror-themed work, The Playground, with an eye fixed in the direction of making it right into a function movie.