Minos
is a short horror flick that was written and directed
by Juan Luis Lopez Fons as his final thesis project for
the New York Film Academy.
Minos
takes place in a sort of exclusive fun house to which
only those with plenty of cash to burn need apply. The
two main characters are Ari and Theo, a couple who's relationship
has seen better days as they attempt to put a little bit
of fun back into their relationship.
Theo
has scored a couple of $10,000 tickets to the Minos Fun
House. Ari, less than impressed, is pretty skeptical of
the seemingly campy house of pseudo-horrors. As our couple
makes their way through the labyrinth of brick walls and
hidden doors they soon find out, as is befitting a typical
fun house, that things are not what they seem. The surprises
that await them are decidedly more macabre than the standard
issue of distorted mirrors and zombie masks that populate
your run-of-the-mill house of horrors.
At
the outset they are greeted by what appears to be a mysterious
sort of caretaker of the labyrinth, though to Ari he seems
little more than a corny sort of sideshow huckster with
an overly developed panache for the melodramatic. The
caretaker entrusts our Couple with a ball of twine and
a flashlight (it is at this point that most scholars of
Grecian mythos have their suspicions confirmed as to the
nature of what truly lies within the depth of the maze,
but that will be covered later). As they delve into the
maze they encounter a couple who entered ahead of them.
Bloodied and terrified, the second scream and pound in
vain on the soundproof glass cutting them off from Theo
and Ari. Thinking this to be all part of the show, our
young protagonists venture deeper into what can only be
described as a mythic confrontation. (How's that for nebulous
puns?)
