It's so distressing that this '85 morality tale isn't available in any form or shape,except of course in the arcane vid store-only accessible to those in the know.
Harry Joy and the Joy family are presented to us as story book characters in a nightmarish old school nursery rhyme formula. What makes the fairy tale work is that we can identify so easily with the neuroses of both the city people and the country people.
The story focuses on an unfolding parable,and all parables unfold by means of breakdown. Harry Joy and his family slowly breakdown,his soul infested with Beelzebub's winged minions-flies and bugs-suddenly becomes apparent to him after his comfortable middle class body dies and his spirit begins its journey to the afterlife. Huzzah-the afterlife!
A complex weave including a very realistic spiritual portrayal of decay vs. modern skepticism, and a novel/ancient take on redemption.
This is a masterful and scorching look at the loss of faith in the era of the sales pitched soul. This one is worth finding- the 80's elements that usually earmark any flick made in the eighties, here serves as a boost and just gives us an even better look at the struggle with our neuroses. Great stuff!
Harry Joy and the Joy family are presented to us as story book characters in a nightmarish old school nursery rhyme formula. What makes the fairy tale work is that we can identify so easily with the neuroses of both the city people and the country people.
The story focuses on an unfolding parable,and all parables unfold by means of breakdown. Harry Joy and his family slowly breakdown,his soul infested with Beelzebub's winged minions-flies and bugs-suddenly becomes apparent to him after his comfortable middle class body dies and his spirit begins its journey to the afterlife. Huzzah-the afterlife!
A complex weave including a very realistic spiritual portrayal of decay vs. modern skepticism, and a novel/ancient take on redemption.
This is a masterful and scorching look at the loss of faith in the era of the sales pitched soul. This one is worth finding- the 80's elements that usually earmark any flick made in the eighties, here serves as a boost and just gives us an even better look at the struggle with our neuroses. Great stuff!