[DAVE MADE A MAZE
opens Friday August 18th at the Cedar Lee Theatre in Cleveland, OH
and The Nightlight Cinema in Akron, OH.]
Review by Bob Ignizio
It’s rare these days to find a movie as original and
imaginative as DAVE MADE A MAZE. Writer/director
Bill Watterson (not the Calvin and Hobbes guy, but rather an actor and voice
actor originally from Cleveland, OH) has crafted a bizarre fantasy that feels
like part BEING JOHN MALKOVICH and
part low budget cult horror/sci-fi fave CUBE.
The premise is that Dave (Nick Thune), a thirty-something
artist who seems incapable of finishing anything he starts, builds a massive
box fort in the apartment he shares with his more responsible better half,
Annie (Meera Rohit Kumbhani). Annie comes home from a weekend trip to discover
this cardboard monstrosity, which Dave claims he has been trapped in for 3
days. He also claims he can’t find his way out.
Annie is, understandably, flummoxed by this. Why not just
tear the fort apart? But Dave refuses to do so, and also warns Annie against
coming in after him. The fort is bigger and more dangerous on the inside than
it appears.
