Mr. K (2024) Movie Review

Mr. K (2024) IMDB

Mr. K movie poster

This is one of those weird movies that most people either love or hate. Our main character is a traveling magician who needs a one night stay in a motel. He finds a motel and checks in but has trouble checking out the next morning. It seems that once you check in, you are unable to reach reception or the front door to exit. No matter what hallway you go down it lead to another hallway with more rooms. There is not exit. There are many odd sounds and hundreds of people staying there. Basically the motel feels like an unescapable maze.

The guests in the hotel call of main character the liberator, thinking he will lead them out of the motel. They all act oddly and despite what they say they don’t seem to want to really leave. Some have jobs they are given. Things are weird but interesting. The motel is changing. The ending is odd. Not what you will expect. I would have preferred a different ending. I thought Crispin Glover was excellent in his role.

I give it a 6.3/10.

Check out the trailer:

Weekly Hard Maze #11

Each Saturday I post a new hard maze with all of them sitting in the Hard Maze Archive. I will try to post a variety of maze types to keep things interesting.

Weekly Hard Maze #11 - Large Arrow Maze

If you need directions on how to solve an arrow maze click here. Solution will be in the archive. Download is below.

Weekly Hard Maze #11 - Large Arrow Maze
download the arrow maze

If you solved that maze quickly and want to try some of my archival hard mazes, these posts should do the trick:

One Maze - Many designs - experiment #10

This is a continuation of my maze design experiments. Read about it in post #1, One Maze - Many designs, then The first 5 experiments and so on, or just enjoy the ride.

The original maze:

Simple Maze

  • The first maze is a thick lines maze. Nothing special.

  • The second maze is a tiny pathways maze. I expanded everything until the pathways were skinny compared to the rest of the maze.

  • The third maze was done using a gradient filter for the inside pathways. It gives it a unique color.

  • The fourth maze I put the original maze into starryai and asked it to make it more interesting. It decided that it needed to be skinnier I guess ?

  • The fifth maze uses a filter called space to make everything look like the nighttime sky.

Nothing earth shattering here. Just me playing around with filters and lines to see what happens.

World Record Hand Drawn Maze - 1,500 Feet long

If you are a maze lover you will love this story.

If you love to solve mazes this maze might be a bit intimidating.

If you are a maze maker you will really appreciate how much work this is to make.

If you are a record holder of anything, you understand the dedication and time that doing something like this takes.

If you are Michelle Boggess-Nunley, well this blog post is about your record ! Congratulations !

In case you missed it, the world record for longest hand drawn maze (at around 1,500 ft long) was broken by Michigan based artist Michelle Boggess-Nunley in 2022. To read about the maze which took about 300 hours to make, her life, and her mazes, check out this article which includes a nice long interview. You can find a photo of final maze wrapped around a soccer field in the article to give you an idea of the scale !

To find her artwork, check out her website where you can buy maze prints and downloads. She also has some really nice non-maze artwork available.

Why not get deep into the rabbit hole with a video about the making of the record maze:

 

In order to break a record, a record needs to have been set. Luckily, YouTube has 2 of the previous record holders works that you can learn about. Here is a video of Eric Eckert making the previous record maze that measured 1,072.08 square feet ! You can read about his maze making in the linked article. He also has a website idrawmazes that features his work - pop art icons in mazes !

And records are made to be broken. Before Eric the record was held by Joe Wos (his maze was 4ft x 30ft). Here is an article about that maze, which was imbedded with over 100 illustrations. Joe currently runs MazeToons, his website dedicated to maze cartoons. Here is his largest maze video:

Would you like to be a part of this blog post ? “Just” break the record and I’ll add you. Good luck ! I for one, will not be attempting it !

Personally, I have a group of large mazes that are tiny compared to the above you can check out for free on the site. Here are the themed mazes:

And I also have made mazes of a lot of skyscrapers, with my Empire State Building Maze being the largest at just under 3 feet wide by 8.9 feet tall in full resolution. It took me months to make (I was using Microsoft Paint at the time and building it pixel by pixel - definitely not recommended !). So if we take the record of 1500 feet long divided by 8.9 feet….I would need 169 ESB mazes end to end to top the record. Unbelievable !

Happy Maze-ing !