Secret Horror (1980)

Another regular evening at Mikes house turns into a comic nightmare Finding himself a stranger in his own apartment a world totally fashioned from the effluvia of TV and pop music Mike is plagued by a mysterious drop ceiling his dry cleaning and a host of ghostly visitors This postmodern comedy of the banal is told as a suspense drama in which an unseen we whispers imperatives to the hapless Mike whose life becomes a TV game show in a place somewhere between initiation and renovation References to such pop trivia as the Partridge Family and the Kingston Trio suggest a collective cultural unconscious of trashy sitcoms pop songs and brand names Smith concludes with the outrageous but oddly affecting spectacle of Mike eating Bridge Mix and dancing to Neil Diamonds Forever in Blue Jeans