Herk Harvey made only one feature film, the rest were industrial training films, which, though I have not seen, I assume are not particularly compelling. But I'm glad he only made one feature, that he didn't keep spinning out horrible movies one after another, diluting his talent.
The genius of this movie is in its details. The speeded-up footage during that phantom dance scenes, the vacant look of Mary, the clever editing. As far as I'm concerned, Harvey could have spent $30,000 on the shot of his ghostly face in Mary's car window alone. It's that striking, it's that good. I applaud Harvey for attaching his name to only this film, it only adds to its mysteriousness and resonance.
Why don't more directors approach film from this angle? If Ed Wood had made only one movie, I bet it'd be pretty good.
The genius of this movie is in its details. The speeded-up footage during that phantom dance scenes, the vacant look of Mary, the clever editing. As far as I'm concerned, Harvey could have spent $30,000 on the shot of his ghostly face in Mary's car window alone. It's that striking, it's that good. I applaud Harvey for attaching his name to only this film, it only adds to its mysteriousness and resonance.
Why don't more directors approach film from this angle? If Ed Wood had made only one movie, I bet it'd be pretty good.