The presentation of Pica towers toes the line between humorous and morbid. I saw many examples of cinematographic techniques that were used by many horror movie greats. The use of surreal angles such as the sideways shots of the hallway and the dolly shot in Hounds of Flesh evokes the sense of panic, claustrophobia, and terror of the unknown in Ridley Scott’s Alien. The Good News made use of the walleye view of Johnathan Demme’s Silence of The Lambs. The sense of breaking-the-fourth-wall so often used in that film is evoked when the S&M guy opens the door and finds the preacher dead and widens his eyes at the looming shadow that envelopes him. I also want to comment on how the characters all seem to be little television sets. This seems to be a reference to how our chosen visual programming effects our development (i.e. sexuality, religious identity, etc…).
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