If you loved An Eater, try The Drifting Classroom

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Both films are directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi, and they both carry the surreal mood tag, and they sit in Horror territory. If that's the register that drew you to An Eater, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What The Drifting Classroom is

Dust devils spiral over cracked earth. A school building winks out, reappears empty. Children’s laughter curdles in the alien heat. Uniforms flutter against rusted signs that weren’t there yesterday. Teachers chalk maps of the featureless horizon, yet the compasses spin wild. Obayashi’s stop-motion ghosts murmur through synth haze like vintage UFO reportage.

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