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Eggshells | |
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Directed by | Tobe Hooper |
Written by | Tobe Hooper Kim Henkel |
Produced by | David L. Ford Tobe Hooper Raymond O'Leary |
Starring | Ron Barnhart Pamela Craig Allen Danziger Sharron Danziger Kim Henkel |
Cinematography | Tobe Hooper |
Edited by | Robert Elkins Tobe Hooper |
Music by | Spencer Perskin Shiva's Headband Jim Schulman |
Distributed by | Watchmaker Films (2009) |
Release date | 1969 [1] [2] |
Running time | 89 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $40,000 [3] |
Eggshells is a 1969 American independent experimental film directed by Tobe Hooper in his directorial debut. Hooper, who co-wrote the film with Kim Henkel, also served as one of the film's producers. The film centers on a commune of young hippies, who slowly become aware of an otherworldly presence that resides in the basement.
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A group of young hippies, having recently moved into an old house in the woods, slowly become aware of an otherworldly presence residing in the basement of the house. [1] [2]
Hooper reflected on the film later when recounting his first efforts as a filmmaker: "It's a real movie about 1969. It's kind of vérité but with a little push. Like a script on a napkin, improvisation mixed with magic. It was about the beginning of the end of the subculture. Most of it takes place in a commune house. But what they didn't know is that in the basement is a crypto-embryonic-hyper-electric presence that managed to influence the house and the people in it. The influences in my life were all kind of politically, socially implanted." [4]
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In 2017, Zane Gordon-Bouzard of Birth.Movies.Death stated that the film "lay[s] out its rambling vision of hippie life in Austin, Texas in a series of acid-splashed reveries". Gordon-Bouzard also noted that the film displayed many of the themes and motifs that would become a staple in director Hooper's later films. [5] Louis Black from The Austin Chronicle gave the film a positive review, stating that the film very much emulated the works of Jean-Luc Godard. Black also praised the film for its capturing of 1960s Austin attitudes and lifestyles, as well as the psychedelic visuals and Hooper's direction. [6]