Paint Drying: The Movie

Paint dries

This was created as a joke but became an actual movie. It's unwatchable. It's exactly what it sounds like. 90 minutes of watching nothing but a swash of green paint drying on a blank wall. The sound of outside traffic in the distance is the only soundtrack and all it really contributes is a white noise. The maker calls this "the most boring movie ever made", apparently as a challenge to critics of other slow moving films. It turns your brain into a jelly in a few minutes and nobody that I know of has been able to complete it. Myself included.

But all is not lost on this novelty DVD. As an extra is the short film, "The Bellman of Briarwood Green", which is a dark fairy tale of sorts which harkens feelings of the old dark forest stories of our childhoods. It's done as a mix of animation and live action that's made to look like animation. A very haunting little short.

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