Another Halloween horror short for your Autumn evening viewing pleasure: David Lynch's second short film, The Alphabet. Rather fittingly, 1968's The Alphabet had it's beginnings in an account about night terrors told to Lynch by his then wife Peggy. Peggy's niece had tossed and turned her way through one night, frenziedly reciting the alphabet in her sleep. Possessed of a harrowing scream-bleed soundscape that plays like a prototype run for reproduction anxiety feature Eraserhead, Alphabet combines live action footage and animation.
The Alphabet.
If you're feeling less naughty / spend-thrifty, The Alphabet is available as part of the excellent The Short Films of David Lynch DVD collection, which, I believe, finally got a Region 2 release just last week.
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