Dave is our God, for he is all-creating, all-knowing, all-…. line!
Dave Made A Maze (2017) is a top-rank whimsy machine.
Maybe literally.
Annie, a young contemporary professional, comes home from a business trip to find her boy friend, or maybe boy toy, Dave, has made a maze the living room of their apartment. Constructed of traditional cardboard, artist-wannabe Dave has chosen to go with an enclosed variety of maze that he has constructed from within, meaning that when Annie comes in the door, her living room is engulfed in a maze, and she can’t find Dave. Neither, for that matter, can he.
But she can hear him, and he can hear her, just by yelling. Warned not to enter, nor to destroy, she goes along with these suggestions when he expresses existential alarm at her disassembly attempts.
But their friends, called upon to help talk him out of the construct, talk themselves into going in after them, despite his frenzied attempts to dissuade them, and before we know it, shrinkage occurs, and the fun begins.
Indeed, the fun can’t be stopped even when one friend ends up with her tongue-protrudant head ends up separated from the rest of her.
And now it’s an exploration of Dave’s subconscious, a race against the monsters who think humans tasty, and the real question: Will Annie keep Dave around after this particular fuck up?
A whimsical comedic horror that left us laughing, Dave Made A Maze is good fun. Unless you have an artist in the family. Then, good luck with that.
