A few days ago, over at Frame Rated I reviewed the 2014 dark comedy-horror THE VOICES, about a likeable factory worker (Ryan Reynolds) who's actually a mentally-unstable recluse who believes his pets are cajoling him into killing female colleagues...
Thoroughly bizarre from start to finish, The Voices is the brainchild of screenwriter Michael R. Perry (whom I’ll always respect for writing Millennium episode “The Mikado”), and Iranian-born French director Marjane Satrapi, who wrote the autobiographical comic-book Persepolis (which she later co-adapted into an Oscar-nominated animation). It stars Ryan Reynolds as Jerry Hickfang; a cheerful oddball working on a bathtub factory floor, who privately suffers from hallucinations—specifically, that his dog Bosco and cat Mr Whiskers both speak to him, and constantly belittle and manipulate his life. Like I said, bizarre.
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