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The Midnight Parasites
寄生虫の一夜
5.1
14,021 rank · 3,012 viewers · 9 favorites
Avant Garde
Horror
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Synopsis
Short experimental animation from 1972 by Yoji Kuri.
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Community consensus
Derived from 6 sampled reviews
6.0
/10
What 6 viewers settled on.
67%
recommend
Score distribution
median 7.5
mode 8
σ 3.32
Agreement
Polarized
σ 3.32 · split reception
The polarity gap
6.8 pts
Recommenders 8.3 · others 1.5
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Score over time
↓ 1.00
Running avg · Dec 2011 → Jul 2022
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 10 “That was an awesome animation about the animators nightmares, it was made in the 70s one guy made, excellent animation the backgrounds are all surreal. Seems like nature is telling the guy "watch...”
- 7 “This short is weird, to put it simply. There isn't really a story or plot, this is just a ten minute view of a world. And what a world! A distopian landscape of dead trees and corpses inhabited by...”
- 8 “The Midnight Parasites is probably the best Yoji Kuri short I've ever seen. His style is typical kind of crude, the equipment and resources available to him were limited, and he didn't have a staff...”
Verbosity
Short · 67%
Medium · 33%
Long · 0%
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A Movie Production
Kuri Jikken Manga Koubou.- Format 1 × 9′ eps × min
- Total runtime 0h 09m all episodes
- Aired Jan 1972 – ongoing
- Source Movie media type
- Rated R 17+ (violence & profanity)
- Ref. BS-4855 catalog