Another piece by Alan Resnick, this time being a tv show about a man entering a house after finding it. It feels very much like a show where a host will show case a house but where it differs at first is that Alan is instead intruding trying to force his way in. Obviously this is creepy but it the piece does a 180 and instead of Alan being the weird one it becomes the two owners of the house.
The first sign that this piece will be weird is when Alan knocks on the door, we get a nice beat transition between doors, but when it comes to the current door the audience is left with a lingering shot of Alan knocking with each hit sounding like it's hitting an empty void. Then Alan rings the door bell where is finger goes through pushing the button all the way back and falling into a big mess on the floor.
From here out it's relatively normal having a small montage of Alan looking around the house, until it ends where one of the owners shows him a pair of lungs on the floor, breathing in and out. The piece does this a fair bit having a normal home with something random being placed in without any context and the characters acting like it's normal. And it's that which gives this piece a really good scare factor. We don't get any context and no resolve to what's presented making it an even more creeper experience. Sometimes that best way to creep the audience out is to show something so unexpected they don't know how process it. I've seen this with a few people and each one had a similar action going from creeped out to forgetting about it during the times where the piece is normal again to straight up weirded out by the bizarre actions. This is a good way to keep the audience engaged because it keeps them focused on the screen
Link to the piece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgxSIFcTvLo
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