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It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

"Kitchen Sink" is a black-and-white horror short film from 1989, so this one will soon be 30 years old. The writer and director is Alison Maclean, a Canadian filmmaker still active in the industry today and she was 30 when she made this one here, one of her most known works still. The two male actors also still act. Oh well what can be said about these 13.5 minutes. It's atmospheric, but that's almost the only positive aspect. And you don't need to understand English to watch it as there is no dialogue in here. I thought it started off nicely, but the longer it went the more it began to drag. Maybe I could have given it a thumbs-up at half the runtime, but at over 10 minutes I think there were several uninteresting scenes and moments in here and it also takes away a whole lot of the scare factor. That's why, overall, I give it a thumbs-down. Not recommended unless you really really love horror films. I was neither scared nor entertained. The best thing about it? It reminds you to clean your sink.

A woman pulls an unspeakable fetus out of the bowels of her kitchen sink.In the tub of warm water the fetus starts to grow until he is the size of a full grown man.Suitably creepy and weird horror short.The monochromatic cinematography is stunning and the score by cult Kiwi band The Headless Chickens adds a lot to the atmosphere.The use of sounds is exceptional as the film is almost dialogue free.It's certainly a study of suburban loneliness and neurosis with the creepy feel of David Lynch's "Eraserhead".It won Best Short Film in the NZ Film & Television Awards and Audience Award at the Sydney film Festival in 1989 and is currently available on "Crush" DVD.

I study Kitchen Sink in my Media Studies class and only now I've actually come to appreciate the techniques Alison has used, me and...well...most of my class (there are a few who just don't care or pay attention) The lighting for one was very cleverly used.There is the scene when the woman is thinking about the monster she just chucked in her bin. The light on one side of her face in the close-up scene was very cleverly done. One half of her face is in light, showing she could actually just leave the monster in her bin and forget, the other is shadowed in dark. Kind of foreshadowing her reversal decision where she actually takes the monster out of the bin. The dark side shows her desire and the path that could lead to the monster becoming alive. The soundtrack too, is eerie and mysterious, like the monster who is eerie and mysterious, watching the movie with my class is possibly the only time they're all silent as the grave really. You can hear a pin drop apparently, it's quite lovely because usually they're just chatting like the teenage girls they are. The woman changes from victim to aggressor during this film too. Alison has completely changed the way things, especially horror movies, were done in that time. The woman is usually the victim, and so she is in the beginning when she is frightened by this monster that she pulled out from her sink, but then after she makes the decision to chuck the monster in the bath, she turns into the aggressor when she shaves the man and designs how she would like him to look, she is in control of the situation and that's quite a change.

I am the first to criticize an art film for being too, well, arty. This movie has a brilliant, original idea for a short film, and its minute budget doesn't show one bit. I had the pleasure of watching "Kitchen Sink" in one of my video production classes. Some of the films the professor showed us simply put me to sleep, but this one really caught my attention and interest. It's disturbing, but that's its intention. This is creepier than most horror movies, of past or present. Even the effects don't appear low-budget. When the woman was shaving the man and cut him with the razor by accident, I was able to feel his pain. Usually, I think novice filmmakers enjoy using black-and-white, because it looks sophisticated. Sure, a good movie is a good movie with or without color, but you can't deny that the use of color can help. Just see the brilliant use of color in Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange." In the case of this movie, I felt the black-and-white fit the tone. And the great score helped top off the film's creepy aura. So if you feel the same way I do about most art films, check this one out. Trust me, this one's actually entertaining. This is the kind of film that gives inspiration to us aspiring young filmmakers. It shows that it is possible to make an original, imaginative film with two actors, one setting and a very low budget. (8 out of 10)