Meloncholy Baby-Sean Hood

16 Minutes
Director- Sean Hood

A skitzed out man named Zacharia sits in a barely lit room separating screws, pennies, pebbles, you name it- he’s dividing it. Watching this man makes me realize he must have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. I feel for him, I have OCD myself and it’s like living in your own personal hell. Not everyone has the same symptoms but they sure as hell have the same overbearing anxiety. It sucks trying to live like nothings wrong with while your insides are totally fuckin tortured.

OCD will consume you if you let it, it’ll have you acting out these ridiculas rituals like suddenly thinking you left your curling iron on. Now even though you know damn well you shut that thing off, your brain still forces you to you bug out go back and check…again! Is it a chemical imbalance? They say it is but I honestly hope that someone cures this awful mind disease. A pretty young woman moves in and Zacharia secretly spies on her while she goes out to hang up laundry or even when she is getting changed.

Zachariah slowly develops a fixation of her, it’s possible he might even love her. He is living in recluse so it’s not like he is ever going to act upon it. He can’t even cross the threshold of the door to get his mail or even the bags of food that is delivered for him. You have to keep how powerful the brain really is in mind. It can completely debilitate you and cripple you from every day activities. So one day the woman’s estranged boyfriend shows up to hurt her. Will Zacharia be able to leave that room to help? Or will his mental disorder keep in the house ignoring the situation with regret?

Maniacts

I fuckin loved this movie more than I love my first born child…I am so kidding but it was almost that good. It was like watching a mentally ill Bonnie and Clyde, or perhaps a milder Mickey and Mallory (not by much) from Natural Born Killers. The power of love sometimes is overwhelming causing one not to always make the right decisions and they totally surrender themselves and allow the other person to tell themwhat to do.

Beth is the cute mousy type of a woman that you wouldn’t expect to have the strength of a 250 lb grown man. She is a master at arm wrestling and almost flips the person over because she is so strong. This is one bitch you do not want to piss off. Leslie Easterbrook plays the part of Matron Knull who might be a lady but she sure doesn’t act like one she is as crooked as they come.

Jeff Fahey from Steven King’s The Lawnmower man plays Joe Spinelli who becomes Beth’s love interest. Beth believes in her warped mind that she is Queen Elizabeth’s royal blood relative and wants to meet her. Joe was put in prison for murdering the ones he called “the right ones.” He never kills unless it’s them. Watch as this kooky romance just gets better and weirder as the movie goes on.

I can’t see anyone not having a blast watching Maniacts, it’s going to become one of your favorite guilty pleasures! You ask what’s love got to do with it- but it has everything to do with these two lovebirds who won’t hesitate to put you in your place if necessary. Your place here is to sit your ass down and flip this MTI Entertainment DVD in and just press play- your life just won’t be complete if you don’t!