marginaliant 's review for:

Universal Harvester by John Darnielle

2.0

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I just finished this ten minutes ago and I could not even begin to tell you what it is about. From a cool and creepy premise of finding horrific clips spliced into rented VHS tapes comes a swift descent into confusion and impossible to follow banality with dreadful characters and the most convincing argument I have yet seen for burning down the entire midwest while we still have the chance. Darnielle, I adore you, but you lost me somewhere along the way.