NYT's "Watching" recommends Slaxx! (such a funny funny movie)
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prayformojo (aka mayhem)
Nov 9 '22, 13:17
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This gory satire marries two of my favorite horror subgenres: the Killer Object (“Rubber”) and the Single Wicked Location (“ATM”). The film is set at a Uniqlo-like fast-fashion store, where a new line of denim that adjusts to each wearer’s contours is to be stocked overnight. But the possessed pants have their own nefarious plans: to frighten the employees and knock them off in spectacularly bloody ways. I’m not exaggerating when I say the jeans are so tight they slay.
The special effects, especially the dancing jeans, are low-fi silly. But the Canadian director Elza Kephart gets clever with cuts and squirts that splatter fans will find hilarious.
Kephart and her co-writer, Patricia Gomez, aren’t just out for sicko laughs. They also ask viewers to think — as deeply as possible during a 77-minute movie — about conspicuous consumption, the exploitation of child labor and the hypocrisy of corporate do-gooderism. Their mayhem has a message.
Stream “Slaxx” on Shudder.
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