Jasneet Singh is a writer at Collider who loves horror, book-to-film adaptations and TV shows.
The Big Picture The horror genre peaks when it takes something as pure and innocent as childhood and twists it into a more terrifying and macabre shadow of itself. Bernard Rose's Paperhouse does exactly this, deforming the childlike act of drawing into a conduit to a darker realm. The film taps into the purity of childhood to render a haunting dreamscape that is stripped of the clutter of reality and envelops us into a purer flavor of childlike wonder.
Release Date October 8, 1988 Director Bernard Rose Cast Charlotte Burke , Ben Cross , Glenne Headly , Elliott Spiers , Gemma Jones , Steven O'Donnell , Jane Bertish , Samantha Cahill Runtime 92 Minutes Main Genre Fantasy Writers Catherine Storr , Matthew Jacobs Expand 'Paperhouse' Uses Drawings to Twist the Simplicity of Childhood Anna is a thirteen-year-old girl who is diagnosed with a mysterious fever and bemoans the thought of being confined to her bed.
The simplistic and cyclic storyline of drawing and dreaming is also embellished by filming from Anna's childlike perspective, enveloping us into her imaginative dreamscape and whimsy. This rhythm for the first half of the film is fittingly reminiscent of a lullaby, lulling us into her fantasies and allowing us to believe she is truly meeting a boy named Marc through her dreams, despite the adults of the film dismissing her.
As such, when Anna succumbs to her impulsive frustration and drags harsh black lines across her attempt at drawing her father onto the paper, Rose dims the lights in her dream world. Next time we enter this realm, the glowing camera shots are replaced with infinite darkness that is only illuminated by small pockets of light from candles or fiery cracks in the ground.
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