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For this Wednesday Super Slop Night, first up is Little Otik (2000), a Czech horror-comedy-fantasy from renowned auteur Jan Svankmajer, whose films Alice (1988), Faust (1994), and Conspirators of Pleasure (1996) we previously watched. The film centers on a couple who find themselves to have a child; they instead adopt a gnarled root and pretend it is a baby, and uh-oh, the fake baby becomes sentient through sheer willpower. Horror and humor ensue as the monstrous child developer s ravenous appetite. Yes, Svankmajer pretty much remade Eraserhead (1977), but with his signature stop-motion effects and dark comedy. This is one of Svankmajer’s best-known films, and is considered a cult classic, so let’s check it out.

After that is She’s the Man (2006), a teen rom-com that adapts Shakespeare’s play Twelfth Night to a 21st-century Usian high school setting. Amanda Bynes stars as Viola, who hatches a plot to disguise herself as her twin brother and take his place at a boarding school, where she learns how to be a man, even as she falls in love with her hunky roommate. Uh-oh, what happens when bro shows up at the school and doesn’t know that his sister has taken his identity? Comedy, that’s what. This is by the best-known and best-regarded film of director Andy Fickman, whose credits otherwise include a bunch of even sloppier slop, such as, uhh, Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 (2015). This is really popular on Letterboxd, for some reason, so we’ll give it a shot.

We’ll start at 8PM EST on Blorptube, right here:

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Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• Little Otik: https://letterboxd.com/film/little-otik/
• She’s the Man: https://letterboxd.com/film/shes-the-man/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Little Otik: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/182987
• She’s the Man: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/16061

CWs for Little Otik:

• Implied pedophilia.
• Sad animal.
• Sexualization of minor.
• Child abuse.
• Alcohol abuse.
• Death of cat.
• Death of pet.
• Animal corpses.
• Babies.
• Crying baby.
• Vomiting.
• Implied sex.
• Nudity.
• Blood and gore.
• Carnism.

CWs for She’s the Man:

• Animal corpses.
• Misogyny.
• Misgendering.
• Objectification of female characters..
• Spiders.
• Bugs.
• Slapping of woman.
• Someone is physically restrained.
• Razors.
• Clowns.
• Shower scene.
• Natural bodies of water.
• Spitting.
• Meltdown.
• Screaming.
• Profanity.
• Someone is watched without their knowledge.
• Fat jokes.
• Misgendering.
• Hate speech.
• Sexual innuendos.
• Blood.
• Shaving.
• Unconsciousness.

Links to movies:

• Little Otik: https://tankie.tube/w/cyR6LvjetyMhcPFETN9K9Q
• She’s the Man: https://tankie.tube/w/dfNoNQVnM9FHDovPesRvTs