xx

Director: roxanne benjamin,sofìa carrillo,karyn kusama,st. vincent,jovanka vuckovic

Actor: natalie brown,jonathan watton,peter dacunha,peyton kennedy

Data Published: Fri Feb 17 2017

Genres: Horror

Key Words: anthology,box,birthday party,single mother,starving oneself

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3322892/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XX_(film)

Description: XX is a movie starring Natalie Brown, Jonathan Watton, and Peter DaCunha. Four short horror films that are directed and written by women.

Plot: Directed by Sofia Carrillo The anthology is framed by stop-motion-animated segments depicting a walking dollhouse with a blinking doll face on it. A doll hand separate, but also living, moves from its drawer and scurries around collecting items the dollhouse finds. Within its interior, various objects and items are shown including: a cabinet where bugs and moths enter acting as a stomach of sorts, a room with living sewing needles that make tiny tapestries, and a room with a morphing apple that seems to act as the dollhouse's heart. Eventually, the dollhouse finds a small blackbird (whether it is stuffed or an actual dead bird is ambiguous). The dollhouse places the bird into a baby doll and upon it crying immediately removes the bird and enters a room with an unconscious girl. The girl has a small door on her chest and the dollhouse places the bird inside it. After a while, the girl awakens, pleasing the dollhouse. Written and directed by Jovanka Vuckovic, based on the short story by Jack Ketchum While riding on a train with his mother Susan, a young boy, Danny, sees an old man with a red box; the old man describes it as "a present" and allows Danny to look inside. After looking, Danny refuses to eat any food presented to him. Susan and her husband Robert start to worry about him, taking him to a doctor who finds that Danny has lost five pounds since his last checkup. Danny speaks with his sister Jenny, and soon after, she refuses to eat as well. Robert attempts to speak to Danny about his refusal to eat, but Danny whispers something in his ear, which causes Robert to start refusing food. Susan is haunted by a dream of her family happily eating her at the dinner table. Come Christmas, Danny, Jenny, and Robert are all emaciated, but don't seem to mind. When Susan asks Danny what was in the box, he tells her it was "nothing." Susan reveals in a voiceover that all three members of her family later died of starvation. She is now searching the trains for the man with the box, still wanting to know what is inside, as she feels it is the only way to get close to her family now. Written by Roxanne Benjamin and Annie Clark, directed by Annie Clark (who performs music as St. Vincent) Mary is attempting to hold a birthday party for her daughter Lucy, but when she finds her husband David dead in his home office, she is forced to hide the body. She spends the day frantically trying to conceal David's body from Lucy, nanny Carla, and neighbor Madeleine. She finally buys a panda costume off of a man who comes to sing Lucy a birthday song, and hides the body in the costume. During the party, Mary does not have time to move the costumed body and is forced to set it up on a seat at the table. Carla bumps the costume, causing it to collapse into Lucy's birthday cake. The body is discovered when Carla, attempting to lift the Panda, accidentally removes the head, and the full title of the film is revealed as the children scream in terror: The Birthday Party, or, The Memory Lucy Suppressed From Her Seventh Birthday That Wasn't Really Her Mom's Fault (Even Though Her Therapist Says It's Probably Why She Fears Intimacy). Written and directed by Roxanne Benjamin Four friends - Paul, Gretchen, Jess, and Jay - are all on an expedition out in the desert. Gretchen is afraid of heights. The four discover an ancient cave painting depicting an evil spirit before camping out for the night. Gretchen is attacked by a creature similar to the spirit in the painting, which takes over her body and wears her skin. It kills Paul and Jay before chasing Jess, who breaks her leg. The Gretchen-creature then descends a cliff to kill Jess. Written and directed by Karyn Kusama Single mother Cora's rebellious son, Andy, is about to turn 18. She is called into Andy's school to meet with the principal regarding an incident in which Andy tore off a classmate's fingernails. The principal apologizes to Cora that she had to witness an "outburst" from the classmate's mother, and tells Cora that her son is remarkable. Cora is deeply unnerved that her son appears to have entranced his superiors. Cora's mailman Chet hints that Andy is not necessarily her distant former husband's son. Andy - whose voice has changed and finger and toenails have become claws - confirms her suspicions: he is the spawn of Satan. Andy forces Cora to bow down to him, but she then embraces and quickly tells her son the reason she went into hiding. The two hold each other as their bones crack and blood seeps from their noses and mouths until they die.