From the drain

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Movie
German title From the drain
Original title From the drain
Country of production Canada
original language English
Publishing year 1967
length 14 minutes
Age rating FSK unchecked
Rod
Director David Cronenberg
script David Cronenberg
production Stefan Nosko
camera David Cronenberg
cut David Cronenberg
occupation

From the Drain is a short film by the Canadian director David Cronenberg . The black and white film was released in 1967 when David Cronenberg was at a film school. In From the Drain , Cronenberg's talent for the bizarre comes to light for the first time.

action

Two men sit in an empty bathtub and talk. The whole movie is centered on that location and these two men. It is implied that both are veterans of a conflict from the past and are now in an asylum. The one man sitting in the bathtub to the east seems to be afraid of the bathtub drain. His gaze falls on him constantly. The second man is not afraid of the drain and tries to talk the first man out of being afraid of the drain. The second man asks the first to swap places. After being afraid for a while, he finally obeys the request. The first man loses his fear and realizes that his concerns were nonsensical. A smile comes over him. But suddenly a tendril climbs out of the drain and strangles the first man to the point of death. The second man, on the other hand, watches the spectacle with a smile and writes something in a notebook after the death of the first - what he writes is not shown. After this has happened, the second man gets up, takes the first man's shoes, throws them in a closet - in which there are already several more pairs - and leaves the room. This entire scene is shown without any emotion - just an occasional smile confuses you from time to time. The film ends with the tendril snaking into the dead man's mouth.

backgrounds

The budget was about $ 500. The film was shot in July 1966.

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