Channel surfing into the Deep A.M.
Screen has you.
You settle on some sort of Val Lewton homage.
A mysterious cat-eyed woman with a French accent sits in the office of a psychiatrist played by a Tom Conway impersonator.
“-even within my memories of that age of abundance . . . something stalked me. Or, perhaps, it was something I carried inside.”
“Why don’t you start at the very beginning?”
“It’s not that simple, Doctor. I’m not sure I remember how it truly began.”
“Then take me as far back as you can. Start there.”
The mysterious cat-eyed woman’s face fills the frame with serene intensity . . .
. . . but you know how slow those old Lewton pictures could be . . .
. . . you were already being lulled to sleep by the Conway impersonator’s voice . . .
. . . but the cat-eyed woman’s face brings a universe of free form associations into your dreaming brain mass . . .
1.Scatmambo (Vaporwave)/Scatman John
2. Overture/Miklos Rozsa (El Cid OST)
3. Overture/Masaharu Iwata,Hitoshi Sakimoto, and Hayato Matsuo (Ogre Battle: March of the Black Queen SNES OST)
4. Press Start/Miki Higashino (Life Force NES OST)
5. Character Creation/Kevin Manthei (Wizardry 8 OST)
6. Title Theme/Hiroyuki Masuno (Shadowgate NES OST)
7. Bad Street/Mr. Twin Sister
8. Government Magic/Antibalas
9. Let Forever Be/The Chemical Brothers
10. Like A Dog/Jordana (audio from music video)
11. Vacation Bible School/Ray Stevens
12. Mad Puppet/Goblin (Profondo Rosso OST)
13. Sotto Voice/Yoko Shimomura (Parasite Eve OST)
14. Osamu’s Theme:Kyoko’s House/Phillip Glass and Kronos Quartet (Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters OST)
15. Ice Cream Man/Bob Chance
16. Wrong Flavor/John Carpenter and Alan Howarth (Assault on Precinct 13)
17. I’m not feelin’ you . . ./Toshinori Yonekura
18. Strange Woman/Hiroyuki Masuno (Uninvited NES OST)
19. You’ve Come Far, Ness/Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu Tanaka (Earthbound SNES OST)
20. Once More/Roy Acuff
21. Sleeping Faster/Lo-Fidelity Allstars
22. A Piece of Remain/Yoko Shimomura (Parasite Eve OST)
23. Stereo Nights/Takkyu Ishino
24. Love You Madly/Cake
25. Roppongi Area/Ryota Kozuka, Kenichi Tsuchiya, and Toshiki Konishi (Shin Megami Tensei IV OST)
26. Polymorphing/Chairlift
27. Brazil/Django Reinhardt
28. Journey to the Island/John Williams (Jurassic Park OST)
29. Maze Theme/Hiroyuki Masuno (Uninvited NES OST)
30. Freedom of Choice/Devo
31. I Don’t Like Your Band/Annie
32. Don’t Lose Your Head/INXS
33. Disco Is/Shintaro Sakamoto
34. Hurry Up Tomorrow/The Nu’rons
35. Cobra Stops the World/Suckadelic
36. Underwater Bombs/Jun Funahashi (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles NES OST)
37. Boss Battle/Miki Higashino (Life Force NES OST)
38. Death Dies/Goblin (Profondo Rosso OST)
39. Level Clear/Koji Kondo (Super Mario Bros NES OST)
40. Kyrie/Yoko Shimomura (Parasite Eve OST)
41. Dancing Devil/Hiroyuki Masuno (Uninvited NES OST)
. . . you awake just in time to see the Tom Conway impersonator float off into the shadows.
Goddamnit.
This turned out to be another one of these “ectoplasmic head shrinker” flicks.
The last scene jumps ahead to the cat-eyed woman checking her mail.
There’s a bill from the phantom psychiatrist.
She shreds it to pieces with her claws.
Right on, sister!
I wouldn’t pay it, either.
SIDE OVER.
TO BE CONTINUED . . .
