- "Um, I'm chasing myself. I'm trying to hurt myself."
Mr. Jones is a 2013 Surreal Horror film starring Jon Foster and Sarah Jones.
Scott is a filmmaker in crisis. He's uninspired, and his relationship with his wife, Penny, is not at its best. The couple move to a house in the desert, where they discover that their neighbor is Mr. Jones, a world-renowned sculptor and mysterious recluse whose work is... fairly disturbing. Scott's fascination with the artist will take him into his universe, a world as twisted as his sinister art.
Unrelated with the 2019 historical drama with the same title.
This film provides examples of:
- All Just a Dream: But that doesn't necessarily mean that it doesn't affect the real world...
- Anachronic Order: The footage editing along the entire movie.
- Arc Words: "Who's gonna protect us now?"
- Bookends: Narration.
- Cell Phones Are Useless: It is established that there is a problem of phone reception.
- Everybody Calls Him "Barkeep": Out of the 11 characters appearing in the movie, six qualify: the Anthropologist, the Old Journalist, the Alleged Scarecrow Recipient, two female characters known as "The Scholar", and the Curator.
- Freeze-Frame Bonus: You can watch Mr. Jones hidden the first time the couple enters the basement
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Everything would have been fine if Scott had never stolen the baby scarecrow.
- Right Behind Me: Several times, specifically in the third act.
- Slow Transformation: Scott becomes the next "Mr. Jones".
- Unreliable Narrator: Scott is off his medication the whole movie.
