IJ Wilson

This film has a lot of surprises - many 80s horrors seemed great at the time, but weren't that well made in retrospect. This one actually has some amazing sound design, and captures the groaning sounds that you hear from a house at night, when everything is quiet, which I think was part of the directors intention. Also, some of the special footage of circuit boards and the inner workings of technology, created by the Oxford Scientific Film company, are quite intriguing to see. This film really does do what many films should, where your eye is just following the subtle action, not sure exactly where it is going to end up, but mesmerized by what is happening.

A very intense film that seems to capture a kind of mystical perspective of the Hollywood machine at work. That once certain film production forces are switched on, they are impossible to turn off, until they have reached completion -- and in the process, some lives are ruined, while others are elevated up, on a cosmic wheel of fortune. But the way David Lynch expresses this is not in an A + B = C story, but more with a kind of dream logic that he is well-known for. Which works perfectly well for this story, when you consider that the old Hollywood studio system was once ironically known as 'the dream factory'.