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Practical Effects
Aylmer — a phallic puppet that's somehow both ridiculous and genuinely menacing.
Direction
Henenlotter's gross-out earnestness, treating absurdity like tragedy.
Writing
Dialogue so blunt about addiction it circles back to accidental poetry.

Director
Frank Henenlotter
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