We're gonna carry on and plan the sequel, these days, you gotta have the sequel. And welcome back to Micro Queers.

It's our sporadic horror movie roundup.

And I'm Joe.

And I'm Trace.

And we are talking Brian Fuller's feature directorial debut in Dust Bunny, a gateway horror film for the ages,

if kids were allowed to see it.

Yeah, spoiler alert, look behind the curtains.

We just recorded our interview with Brian Fuller and Trace's face, if you have not watched that video,

when he finds out that this is an R-rated movie. I am flabbergasted, Joe. Like, absolutely flabbergasted. I nothing about this screams R-rated. This, like, I thought the NPA, I mean, not to say the MPA was ever, like, good, but I felt like, I was like, who really cares that much about ratings? I mean, we live in a streaming age, like, whatever the fuck. But like, it must be because it's about kids.

Like, there's a kid at the center of it, but still, that is a shock to me. Because I, spoiler alert, I really enjoyed this movie. Oh, good. Okay. Yeah. I managed to see this at TIF. So I had seen this a couple of months ago. I sat with it. I talked about it with Conrad from

movie Ubliet about it because we've been recording

a bunch of just mini reviews out of the festival.

And it was actually very funny because he was only familiar with Brian Fuller's work from Hannibal.

So I think he was actually disappointed at how Kitty or gateway horror this was. But I think that this is,

like if you have seen Pushing Daisies, this feels like it could be set within that world.

It's just that we're missing the actors from that title. Yes, but the whimsy is there.

Like that's what I kept like. This movie was so whimsical, but like it juggles so many different, I'm going to say genres and tones. And for the most part, I think it does it really well. I think this is like an hour and 44 minutes, I think. It's a touch long. It is. I would say, I'm interested to see where you think you could cut things. But for me, I think you could cut out stuff in the first act.

Yeah. I mean, it's important that we have this emotional component. And there is so much emphasis on little eight-year-old Aurora, who was played by Sophie Sloane. Fucking darling to child performance. Like, anchors this movie. She and Mads Mikkelson have so much chemistry. It is impeccable casting.

The running gag where he couldn't pronounce her name. Oh my God. It kills me. Every time I laughed.

Every time I laughed. I was like, Aurora. I didn't think to ask Fuller this in the interview, but do you

think Aurora is meant to tie into Sleeping Beauty? Oh, I could absolutely see that. Yeah. Yeah, which in that case, now I want to be like, well, why did you pick Aurora out of all the princesses? But, yeah, I mean, it's probably the one that he most identified with. The sleeping one? Yeah, absolutely. Well, I guess Snow White sleeps a lot, too. We have a lot of sleeping princesses. This is true, especially in a certain

era of Disney princess. Um, but ultimately, yeah, I would have eaten this shit up as a kid. Like, this feels the closest to kind of like those, like, honestly, like, PG-rated family, quote-unquote family films we were getting in the 80s. And I know that Fuller said, you know, he was kind of aiming for like an amblin vibe. And I... It's so apt. Yeah. Totally see that here. And honestly, in the third act, when this thing is, because spoiler alert, the monster is real in this movie. Yes. The jawsy stuff we are doing with this thing under the floorboards, I thought was super impressive. I mean, it looks great. It looks great. It does. Yeah, this is an interesting

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