"There's something in the floor. At least, that's what young Aurora (Sophie Sloan) thinks is going bump in the night. Most kids are afraid of a monster lurking under their bed or within their closet, but in Dust Bunny - a delightful horror fantasy from Bryan Fuller - there may or may not be a monster lurking under the floor under Aurora's bed."
"Aurora believes that her neighbor is a monster hunter: when she follows him out on the town one night, she watches him take down a group of hitmen hidden in a dragon costume. We know the truth, but to Aurora's eyes, he's the only person capable of destroying the cause of all her sleepless nights. Believing in both in half the fun, especially once Aurora solicits her neighbor's services to murder the monster under her bed."
"The question between what's real, and what's the product of an overblown imagination, dominates the push and pull in Dust Bunny. Aurora's monster feels uncomfortably real. Even if it spends the majority of the film swathed in shadows, hiding behind doors or under floorboards, the terror it inflicts in its young lead is all too tangible. So is her hope of finally defeating the beast, even if it's a bit misplaced."
A young girl named Aurora becomes convinced something lurks under the floor beneath her bed and struggles to convince her inattentive parents. A mysterious neighbor from Apartment 5B appears to live a double life, and Aurora mistakes him for a monster hunter after seeing him fight men in a dragon costume. The film continually blurs the line between imagination and reality, presenting both a network of spies and the possibility of literal monsters. The tone mixes Amblin-style adventure and fairy-tale wonder with darker Léon- and John Wick-like violence, producing a whimsical yet unsettling horror fantasy.
Read at Inverse
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]