More recent works of many horror films tend to underestimate the emotional intelligence of their audiences, as they would rather force their metaphors into audiences than leave them with unreconciled issues. Horror needs to have some grayness, some ambiguity and some wrestling as to what it seeks to achieve and what it is about. When it is not, and it goes from mood to message, it ceases to be effective. That’s one of the many that succeeds Spider One’s aggravating “Little Bites,” a film that majorly speaks the themes of its actors in their mouths rather than allowing them to act as characters and making the effort to complement the film.
Mindy Vogel, a widow whom the audience is introduced to in the midst of a living nightmare, is also in ‘Terrifier 3’ with Krsy Fox, who is pretty much at FF too. In order to ensure the safety of her daughter Alice (Elizabeth Phoenix Caro) she has sent her away to be raised by her grandmother (Bonnie Aarons) instead as there is a demon that lives in a room in their house. He shares some features with Nosferato as a gagged atom, a creature in a basement that is taken after this shot. Most of the time bathed in darkness, this is a humanoid creature who is slow-ly starving Mindy by making her ‘beware’ and delivering a ‘sweet’ little bites instead of chomping her down like a rock cornish game hen. It is the type of submission and a depression too termed addiction which in most cases focuses on the parents turning them useless to take care of their young ones. There is the common refrain that once Agyar rings the bell, which is the last time that Agyar has to ring it ever and which is simply mindy, is that there are two Jeanne books by Agyar that mindy will in fact answer. It is tough being a mother. It is tough being a woman, more specifically a mother, and this is through a barrage of scenes of Fox being wrung dry and exhausted from her circumstances as Agyar batters her physically, mentally and sexually.
The theme of a ‘demon’ as seen in the short horror Little Bites film exists in Christine as there is a creature who literally functions as a soul sucker to a single mother, but Spider One takes that concept further than it ought to go with a series of what are essentially disconnected episodes. An employee of Child Protective Services Sonya a.k.a. Barbara Crampton shows up at Mindy’s house looking for Alice. Crampton is excellent, and these scenes are a pleasure to watch, but they serve little to advance the plot since it is not so outrageous to claim that a child is being kept with a grandmother for a few weeks. Yet those moments are badly constructed in such a way as to create a suspense that perhaps Mindy’s secret will be out in the open.
So such a scene occurs where Mindy comes with a guy (Chaz Bono) from a bus stop in order to help Agyar have a more nutritious diet. This sequence gets incongruous and malodramatic, regarding choppily stoned ice-cream, apologetic about its view and about the protagonist or her plight. Every interaction that occurs in the story of “Little Bites,” where even the one-scene great Heather Langenkamp appears, all feel forced either because they are filled with some kind of symbolism or even lack coherence with the characters.
It seems that for some performers this inconsistency of the narrative and the insistence on making characters act more than be, make the performances somewhat carved, jerky and less than convincing. Certain Little Bites horror icons, like Crampton and Langenkamp, emerge from it–as they always do. On the other hand, most of the time others appear to be as lost as they are looking scared or powerful. Lately, conversations like those between Mindy and her mother look too artificial which is one of the elements for the making of this Little Bites film that I suppose is necessary for it to work. Fox tries harder (I think that she is probably in almost all the shots) and I’d love to see her in such a role, where she’s so hamstrung, once again. I find it utterly frustrating however, to see someone making so much effort only for the personne to be directed in a manner in which the character and performance are chaotic. Being a mother is hard. So is making a film.
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