Mild Peril Video Club: The Viewing (2022)

The Viewing: Panos Cosmatos (2022) ★★★★★

Part of the Mild Peril Video Club, 2nd degree

An hour long entry in Guillermo Del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities series for Netflix. Panos Cosmatos (I love saying his name, it’s like a mantra) once again gives us something that makes everything around it look like a pile of shit. Like what does anyone else even think they’re doing with a camera. Go back to bed. The style may not be to everyone’s taste (and the fact that the story perhaps doesn’t ‘do’ much is part of that style) but the power of this thing oozes out of the telly. At one point, almost literally. Stars the Peter Weller of Robocop / Buckaroo Banzai / Naked Lunch fame and soundtrack by Daniel Lopatin / Oneohtrix Point Never, as if you needed any more reason to watch this.

• On Letterboxd.