IMDb plot summary: A struggling actor takes on a seasonal holiday job as the mascot for the year's hottest new toy: Pooka. However, after putting the costume on, he develops two personalities - one for himself, and one for Pooka.
Directed by Nacho Vigalondo. Starring Nyasha Hatendi, Latarsha Rose, Jon Daly, and Dale Dickey.
I haven't watched any of the Into the Dark horror anthology films up until this point, but my husband started watching this on a whim today and so I followed along. It is a frustratingly vague experience much of the time that feels more like watching a David Lynch film than a traditional horror piece. I often enjoy using horror tropes to tell other, deeper kinds of stories, and this attempts that, but it gets bogged down in its first hour of not-very-scary, mostly-just-weirdly-surreal imagery.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Pooka! < Office Space
Pooka! < Cars
Pooka! > Armageddon
Pooka! > The Battle of Algiers
Pooka! > Green Lantern
Pooka! > Prince Caspian and the Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Pooka! < A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Pooka! < Before I Fall
Pooka! > Apocalypse Now
Pooka! > Avanti!
Pooka! > The Queen
Final spot: #2199 out of 2909.
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