Bedtime Stories

A magical tale of the unfortunately named Skeeter (played by Adam Sandler) that deals with the hallucinatory world constantly trying to murder him. Every night two young children - who inexplicably have a new iMac in their bedroom - detail the horrors that will befall poor, barely vertebrate Skeeter the next day. From the moment a hideously mutated guinea pig is placed on Skeeter’s head, we know he’s in for a terrible time of things.

These children are cruel in the extreme: a vicious rain of gumballs strike the soft top of Skeeter’s head, causing him to forget the most basic ideas (don’t spray yourself in the face with an aerosol can) and render him nearly unable to communicate without sounding like he had to retake gradeschool. The children threaten to set him ablaze with a ball of fire, Skeeter’s car radio echoing back their dark promises at every station he plays.

Eventually Skeeter retreats further and further into insanity, imagining himself as an extreme chariot-rider, a greedy cowboy, and a variety of other mundane fantasies that serve to shield his broken mind from his eventual demise when the children tire of their plaything.

A harrowing look into the twisted face of madness and the unfeeling apathy of youth, this movie chills you to the bone, gripping your face with the skeletal claws of harsh and unyielding reality.

–scott