Accumulator 1 (1994)
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Article 6095 by David Sindelar
Directed by Jan Sverak
Featuring Petr Forman, Edita Brychta, Zdenek Sverak
Country: Czech Republic
What it is: TVs as blood-sucking vampires

A man is taken to the hospital for having been unconscious for several days. At first, no cause for the illness can be found, but the patient discovers that his television is sucking the life out of him.

This science fiction satire on the virulent effects of TV is a lot of fun. It posits a situation where people accosted in “Man in the street” interviews find that their TV appearance results in an alternate version of themselves which need sustenance, which they achieve by sucking the life from their original. I found this one fresh and entertaining. especially when it sends up action movie tropes in which TV remotes are substituted for guns. Zdenek Sverak steals the movie as a healer (but not a doctor) who tries to help the main character with his crisis. I quite liked this one.

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