We've got a whole string of new releases this week. We’ll start out with “Your Host,” about a fun game show. Next, we’ll take a trip to “Pig Hill” and do some huffing and puffing. “213 Bones” slashes up a bunch of teens next, followed by the comedic-stalker film “Borderline.” Finally, we’ll see what came after Dracula with “Abraham’s Boys.”
And as usual, we’ve got a stack of shorts for you!
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Mainstream Films:
2025 Your Host
Directed by: DW Medoff
Written by: Joey Miller
Stars: Jackie Earle Haley, Ella-Rae Smith, Jamie Flatters
Run Time: 1 Hour 29 Minutes
Trailer:
Spoiler-Free Judgment Zone
You will immediately think, “This reminds me of Saw,” but it leans into the game show aspect enough to be different and interesting. Jackie Earle Haley is excellent as the host and the rest of the cast does a nice job as well. The effects are realistic, and there’s a story that explains things nicely. It was better than we expected, and we liked it a lot.
Spoilery Synopsis
Jake is announced as the “Final Winner” in what appears to be a very bloody, terrifying game. He ends up winning a shotgun blast. Credits roll.
We cut to four young people who are visiting a summer house in the country. Matthew, Melissa, James, and Anita begin their weekend of partying– it’s Anita’s birthday. They all seem a little obnoxious, especially James, whose house they’re in. They hear a noise outside, and James finds a video camera filming their house.
Anita doesn’t want to watch the tape; she’s a real stick-in-the-mud which causes a big argument. Anita tells Matthew that her mother’s dying, and she’s upset over that. They all go about their evening, and we see someone stalking around in the shadows. We watch as the shadowy figure injects each of them with a sedative.
All four wake up chained to the wall in a dark place. There’s another video camera and a strange man in a red suit wearing a mask. He’s got a mannequin studio audience, as he introduces the four contestants for his “game show.” He promises, “There’s always a winner!”
The Host says it’s time for “Rock Paper Scissors Shoot.” He shows them what that means to lose.
Several hours later, the four commiserate about their predicament. He makes them admit the worst things they ever did. James was guilty of killing someone in a car accident. Anita made an adult web page to pay for her mother’s surgery. Matthew scams people online. Melissa admits that her animal shelter sold dogs to dogfighting organizers.
Now it’s time for “Wheel of Pain.” Melissa loses an eye. Anita drills a hole in Matthew’s ear. In the next game, Melissa gets a splitting headache as the point of that one.
The Host comes back in and shows them a video of him cutting a woman up with a chainsaw. He also shows Anita his own scarred face. James thinks the man looks familiar. Turns out, Anita used to work on the Barry Miller show; we get a flashback.
Barry Miller ran “Wheel of Games,” a game show program. Anita watches as a criminal gets released on the TV news. Jake, the guy who died at the beginning of the movie, and Lisa, the woman who got chainsawed also worked there with Anita, and they plant the idea that Anita and others could get a lot of money if they accuse Barry of being a sexual predator. They lied and ruined Barry’s career plus he lost his wife and kid.
Barry’s already killed Jake, Lisa, and the lawyer who ruined him. He makes Anita chew on the dead lawyer’s tongue.
For the next game James and Matthew have fresh sewn incisions on their stomachs. Barry gives Anita the chance to play “Incision Decision.” She’s got a knife and guess where the keys are? Which of them is going to be cut open? They both beg and negotiate, but in the end, she cuts open James and pulls out a key.
Her key doesn’t fit the door, so she needs the other key. Barry releases Matthew so he can fight back. He picks up the knife, kisses Anita, and then cuts his own throat.
Anita gets the other key and lets herself into the back room of “The Show,” where she finds many videotapes and photos. Barry’s obviously been planning this for a long time.
Barry invites her in for one last game. It’s time to pick her prize. Anita offers to publicly admit that she lied about her accusations. But he lost his money, his career, his family, all just for money to save her mother’s life, and nothing will get that back. Barry promises not to kill Anita’s mother if she just finishes the game.
She cuts Barry and runs outside but is quickly recaptured. She smashes her face into a birthday cake, but there’s no trick there. He says she wins the game. There was no knife in the cake; the icing, however, is acid. She dies painfully.
We watch more videotape, where the lawyer admits he raped all those women; Barry was totally innocent of everything before Anita ruined his life.
Brian’s Commentary
The trailers make it look like “The Running Man” meets “Saw,” but in reality it’s more like “The Price is Right,” done the way Bob Barker always really wanted to do it. As uninspired as that sounds, I thought it was far better than I expected, mostly due to Jackie Earle Haley’s over-the-top performance. He’s great here, and a lot of fun to watch. The characters are all well defined and believable, the set is perfect, and the acting is good from everyone involved.
And, in the end, Barry was right; they were all assholes.
Kevin’s Commentary
I wonder how many game show hosts have fantasized about this over the years. It does remind one of Saw, but it’s different enough to be interesting. I agree that Jackie Earle Haley elevated the whole thing with his performance. It was really good.
2025 Pig Hill
Directed by: Kevin Lewis
Written by: Jarrod Burris
Stars: Shane West, Rainey Qualley, Shiloh Fernandez
Run Time: 1 Hour, 40 Minutes
Trailer:
Spoiler-Free Judgment Zone
We were expecting another Piglet-Because-We-Can-Now movie, but it’s not part of that story line. This was well written and put together in an interesting way, with a good cast and realistic effects. We thought it was better than the preview led us to believe, and we both liked it a lot.
Spoilery Synopsis
We open on a huge radio tower as a car parks nearby. The couple inside park here to meet someone. She points out that this is “Pig Hill” where all those women went missing. And there are supposed to be pig-people out here as well. Sure enough, a pig-man kills them both as the credits roll.
Emily has gone missing and is all over the news. Carrie is her friend, and she wants to know what happened and is writing a book about the missing women. Reggie says it’s been ten people in the last decade.
A new guy, Andy, comes into Carrie’s bookshop to sell some books. He gets called away suddenly, but Carrie likes him. Carrie’s married to Ben, but she hates him. Her brother, Chris, has been talking and doing business with Ben behind her back. They joke about the “Pig Hill Rhyme.”
We cut to Emily, who’s in a cage somewhere.
Carrie volunteers at the shelter, and there are some weird people there. Paula wants an abortion; she’s supposedly been raped by the pig-man, but abortion is illegal here. Carrie sees pig-men around every corner; is she crazy?
Meanwhile, Paula gives herself an abortion with a coat hanger. Ew. The baby comes out, and it’s definitely a pig-baby. Paula dies from blood loss after stabbing the baby and then slitting her own throat. Just to make the evening more perfect, Chris is back on drugs.
The next day, Andy comes back to pick up his check and offers to take Carrie out. Carrie admits that she’s on the outs with her husband, who left her thirteen months ago for unknown reasons. Andy tells her that he was wealthy and successful, and then lost it all.
Carrie’s husband finds out about Andy and shoots himself. At the funeral, Andy shows up, and Chris takes offense at that. On the bright side, Ben was rich, so Carrie’s set for life now. Carrie dreams about having a litter of pig-babies. She thinks writing her book will change the world for her.
Andy goes to visit his parents, and they aren’t doing too well. That goes badly, so he reconnects with Carrie. He tells the story about how his young son got run over by a tractor and died.
Andy volunteers to help Carrie track down Red, Paula’s abusive meth-head father, for information for her book. They run into Giovanni, the “Pig King of Pig Hill,” a creepy pig farmer who invites them home. He comes from a long line of pig farmers. Giovanni tells about his ancestor whose daughter kept having sex with a well-endowed pig. Their love affair carried on over generations, creating the legends of Pig Hill. We see that Red is there on the farm, hiding.
Andy and Carrie park under the radio tower, which figures into the legends about the “Alien version” of the pig-men legend.
Later that night, someone drags Carrie out of her house. She soon wakes up in a cage next to Emily, who has been here for months. There really is a pig-man, and Emily calls him “Swill.” The pig-man also abducted the guy who was with Emily, who he sodomizes and kills.
The police question Andy, who tells them about Giovanni’s pig farm. Andy enlists the help of Reggie, a homeless man who seems to know a lot about the area, to track down Carrie. Reggie explains that Carrie has been obsessed with the pig-men since she was a child. Reggie doesn’t think Red is the one killing women, since this has been going on for thousands of years. Reggie talks about the Nephilim, who resemble pigs and do terrible things to appease their demonic fathers.
Carrie watches as Swill rapes Emily for about the hundredth time. This time, he kills her, leaving Carrie alone.
Andy and his friends run into Red, who denies hurting anyone, even Paula. They kill Red, and Giovanni shows up and calls the police.
As Andy sits in jail, Carrie gets to know Swill. Reggie finds Carrie laying out in a field near the radio tower and takes her to the police. Andy gets released, and the newspapers call him a hero for killing the Pig Hill murderer. Andy and Carrie’s doctor talk about getting her away from Chris, who is far more overbearing than he should be.
Carrie insists that Swill was a pig-man, not Red, but everyone tells her otherwise. The police take her to Red’s farm, but she doesn’t remember much.
The doctor then hypnotizes Carrie to help with her memory, and she remembers that Swill was just her brother Chris wearing a mask. The doctor then tells the police everything but in the middle of the call, the pig attacks the doctor. After finishing her off, the pig attacks Carrie, and she pulls Chris’s mask off.
Andy sees on the security video that Chris broke into his parents house and poisoned them. The police know about Chris now, and they all start searching for him. Chris confesses that he’s a huge drug dealer and killed Ben, who knew too much. Chris has been abusing and drugging Carrie since she was a small child.
Chris explains about his uncle Jack, who was a cultist. Jack abused Chris, who protected Carrie from him. The cultists “programmed” Chris and other children, including Ben, to do whatever they ordered. Chris is in love with his sister, and he starts kissing her.
Carrie stabs Chris and runs upstairs. She then beats him to death with a hammer, like a pig. Then she puts on the mask.
Brian’s Commentary
It’s a dank, claustrophobic little town, with fog and lots of creepy homeless people and, apparently, alien pig mutants. It’s well acted, filmed and edited in an interesting way, and it’s very weird and mysterious as we learn about what’s really going on.
It’s a little hard not to compare this to 2025’s “Piglet,” but other than the look of the main villain, there’s no real connection. This is a far better film than the earlier one.
It’s a much more interesting story than the trailers would have you believe. I liked this one a lot.
Kevin’s Commentary
I was bracing myself for another “Piglet” themed horror, thanks to the fairly recent copyright expiration, but this was much more than that. It was a good mix of supernatural, cryptids, and bad people doing bad things. I thought it was great.
2025 213 Bones
Directed by: Jeffrey Primm
Written by: Dominic Arcelin, Jeffrey Primm
Stars: Colin Egglesfield, Luna Fujimoto, Hunter Nance
Run Time: 1 Hour, 25 Minutes
Trailer:
Spoiler-Free Judgment Zone
This is quick moving and plays the tropes well. It’s a killer picking off a group of people with the who and why being a mystery. We both thought it was very well made and entertained.
Spoilery Synopsis
A young couple makes out at her place. They undress, and she mentions she’s always wanted to be tied up. Before they get started, she sees someone in the next room. While he’s in the shower, the masked killer stabs her to death. When he comes out, the killer slashes his throat. Credits roll.
Two years later, at Bristol Falls College, Brent and Joanne talk about videogames. She asks him to go to a movie, but he may have to work. We see various characters as they all come or go from school. Candice and Clyde argue while Eric and Joanne run for their test.
Teacher Kelly talks about forensic anthropology, and his favorite student is Lisa. They all go to the lab to see some skeletal remains; it’s their group assignment. They need to photograph and investigate the bones and report back. They all screw around, and we can see who does and doesn’t take it seriously.
In the midst of the examination of the plastic bones, they find a real one. They’re interrupted by the police and ambulance; Jill was killed last night. The detective explains how many times Jill was stabbed. Laurie’s the coroner, and she talks to the class about seeing anything last night. Lisa was the last to see Jill, but she says she didn’t see anything weird. In reality, she saw Clyde outside the library last night. Candace thinks Clyde is the killer, and he takes offense to that.
Lisa and Brent bond in the parking lot. Clyde sits in his car, but he’s not moving. Brent finds finger bones next to his own car when he leaves. That night, the masked killer stabs Eric and Joanna.
Sheriff Bracco comes to Kelly to talk. Kelly’s father died in an accident a year ago, but Kelly still wonders about the “accident.” The sheriff gets called to the diner, where they’ve found Clyde’s body. All the students, especially Candice, suspects everyone, and she has lots of theories.
Patty, Brent, Candace, and Lisa find Eric and Joanna’s body. Patty finds a bone in her apron– could creepy janitor Carl have put it there? What about old Bob, the weird guy from class? Brent calls Bob, who sounds pretty creepy on the phone. Candace tells the gang about Kelly’s family history– his grandfather was probably a murderer, and his father died mysteriously last year.
The four students go out to the country to find Kelly, who lives in a big mansion with an unlocked door. They go inside and find the power is off. Outside, the killer smashes Patty. Brent gets pushed through a window, Candace gets stabbed off-screen, and Lisa runs outside, terrified, as the killer closes in on her.
Lisa finds Kelly tied up in the garage and lets him loose. They go into the house for his car keys, and the killer stabs him. Lisa asks why he’s doing all this, and the killer takes off his mask, revealing Laurie, the coroner. “Why not?” She complains about being sick of the same old routine, and she just wanted to have some fun for once. She says she was the wife of the man who was cheating in the pre-credit sequence. The best part is that she’ll be the one put in charge of the investigation.
Brent sneaks in from outside and whacks Laurie good. Naturally, she jumps up to scare everyone, but then Bob shows up out of nowhere and shoots her half a dozen times. Kelly will probably survive the stab wounds, and Brent and Lisa thank Bob, who was secretly Kelly’s uncle. Brent and Lisa kiss. Happy ending?
We cut to the coroner’s assistant, who picks up the mask in a creepy way…
Brian’s Commentary
It’s quite good. There are a lot of characters, but they are all distinctive, and most die off pretty quickly. The acting is decent all around, and we’re never quite sure why the killer is doing what he’s doing or who he is until the end.
It’s got all the usual slasher/kill-the-teen elements, but it’s really well done and has a few unique elements thrown in. I liked it!
Kevin’s Commentary
Hiding bones in a bunch of bones and planting bones and manipulating bones. Yes, this one is about the bones. And people getting bumped off gradually by a masked killer. This was a very good one. Fresh and interesting.
2025 Borderline
Directed by: Jimmy Warden
Written by: Jimmy Warden
Stars: Samara Weaving, Ray Nicholson, Eric Dane
Run Time: 1 Hour, 34 Minutes
Trailer:
Spoiler-Free Judgment Zone
It’s got plenty of dark humor, but it’s mostly taken fairly seriously with a body count. Ray Nicholson really makes the movie with his portrayal of crazy. The whole thing is put together very well, and we both liked it a lot.
Spoilery Synopsis
Paul and Sofia are getting married– no, that’s the ending. We zip back to the beginning of the story as the credits roll.
It’s 1990-something, and Sofia is a famous pop star with her face plastered everywhere. Paul comes to her door, and wants to propose to Sofia, but Bell, the head of her security team, warns him to leave. Yes, Paul is a celebrity stalker, and this has happened before, so much so that he knows the security man’s name and personal details. They go through a whole routine where Bell pretends to be Sofia, and Paul proposes to him. This ends up with Bell getting stabbed. Paul lets himself into the house and helps himself to all Sofia’s facilities.
Six months later, Sofia’s dating Rhodes, a famous basketball player. He has her confused with Madonna and Cindi Lauper. Bell shows up, and it turns out that he’s Sofia’s father. Paul goes home to his adopted daughter and says he’s ready to return to work. She says “He called again.” We cut to someone new, J.H., who seems to be running errands for Paul.
We hear about a mental patient who has escaped from the asylum. Paul and another prisoner, Penny, killed two people on the way out. When Sofia gets home, Bell tells her about Paul’s escape. Rhodes talks to Paul about his injuries a while back.
Rhodes finds out he’s just another conquest on Sofia’s sex list and takes it personally. She’s been using him for publicity reasons. Outside, the new security guard finds a big crate in the driveway and suddenly, the lights go out. Penny then makes short work of the guard– she beats him to death with a microwave oven.
Rhodes leaves in a huff, but the guard isn’t there to open the gate for him. Inside, Paul gets into the house and menaces Sofia. Rhodes turns the power back on just as Paul gives Sofia a big, creepy hug.
Paul goes home to Eleanor and Abby, his family. Eleanor saw someone creepy outside not long ago, but she got an incompetent singing cop who was easily killed by J.H. J.H. takes all three of the family to Sofia’s place. Along the way, J.H. and Paul get out of the car and J.H. shoots him.
Paul tells Sofia that they’re getting married soon. He introduces Sofia to Penny, who’s as crazy as he is. They have a bit of a “crazy montage” as they get ready for “the wedding.” Rhodes finally gets back inside, and Sophia whacks him over the head with a guitar. Penny comes in, and instead of killing anyone, wants to sing a duet on the piano. This goes badly for both of them, but mostly for Penny.
Morning comes, and Bell wakes up on the side of the road. Kaylor, Sophia’s assistant, has found him; J.H. can only see out of one eye and can’t shoot straight, so he survived. He’s back on the case.
Everyone else has gone to Pastor Lutzner's church for the wedding. Bell figures it out and calls the police. At the church, Paul gets confused again and brings in Rhodes in the wedding gown to marry; he likes Rhodes better than Sofia. Bell shows up just in time to give away the bride.
J.H. points out that Paul’s not marrying Sofia, he’s got a black man in a dress. Paul looks confused and then proceeds with the marriage. When they get to the “Object” part of the wedding, Sofia stands up and objects. Paul isn’t listening. As the wedding concludes, Paul stabs Rhodes. Everyone scuffles as Sofia takes the knife away.
J.H. takes Abby as a hostage until Rhodes stands up and cuts his throat. Paul still sees himself in a happy wedding scene even as they load him into a police car. Everyone’s happy now, even Paul, who is completely delusional on the way back to the asylum. At least at first as we see him struggle hard to stay smiling.
Brian’s Commentary
The trailer made this out to be a lot more of a comedy than it was. There were a few funny bits, but it’s more serious than not until the very end. Paul is a funny maniac, but he is a maniac; the film has a decent body count. It’s roughly based on a true story that involved Madonna in the 90’s, and there are a lot of nods to that.
Ray Nicholson is Jack’s son, and the resemblance between them is amazing and obvious. He plays “crazy” quite well. Samara Weaving is fine here, although Ray is the one who really steals the show.
Fun!
Kevin’s Commentary
I thought this was very entertaining. And I felt so bad for Paul in the closing credits as his happy state of mind that he’s riding in the back of a limo in love starts to crack. It’s worth checking out for sure.
2025 Abraham’s Boys A Dracula Story
Directed by: Natasha Kermani
Written by: Natasha Kermani, Joe Hill
Stars: Titus Welliver, Brady Hepner, Judah Mackey
Run Time: 1 Hour, 29 Minutes
Trailer:
Spoiler-Free Judgment Zone
About eighteen years after the events of “Dracula,” Dr. Van Helsing has married Mina, had two sons, and moved with the family to an isolated area in California to get away from it all. But of course, the past is hard to leave behind. This was an interesting take on vampires, heavy on family drama and suspense, and we were both entertained.
Spoilery Synopsis
We open in California, 1915, 18 years after the death of Count Dracula, where a woman tries to get a ride into town. As the sun starts to go down, someone grabs her, and the screams suddenly stop. Credits roll.
We cut to Abraham Van Helsing who greets Mina, his wife. Their sons, Rudy and Max are outside working. Abraham tells Max that he’s learned that they can’t hide forever. He’s vague, but they’re going to need to be prepared for something.
That night, Mina tells Max that “The devil is coming and I want to be ready for him.” She seems… upset. Abraham tells Max about their strange adventure 18 years ago and what happened to Mina; she was infected, and that still bothers her. They fled to California to build their family, but now the threat has followed them here. If there are vampires in the area, they may be drawn to Mina because they are all connected.
Elsie brings an injured man; Eddie was hurt working on the new rail tracks coming into the area. Dr. Van Helsing uses what looks like a butter knife to release the pressure on his lung so he can breathe. Inside, a bat gets into the house, and Mina doesn’t take it well. Rudy asks Max if he believes in “Father’s creatures.” They both doubt the existence of vampires, but Rudy’s heard crying and scratching at night.
The next day, Elsie brings them cookies as a thank you; Eddie will live. Mina warns her about hungry things in the night, and she doesn’t mean the railroad men. When Max has trouble with his algebra homework, Mina talks about Dracula’s cold breath on her cheek.
That night, we see someone outside in the nearby woods. Max comes downstairs and sees his mother being bitten by Nosferatu– nope, just a nightmare.
The next day, Mina takes ill for no apparent reason. Abraham talks Max through the process to do a blood transfusion to re-energize Mina.
The boys sneak into Abraham’s office and find a hidden basement. There’s someone down there who wants out.
Abraham comes in and kills the woman, who we saw in the pre-credit sequence. Abraham then has no choice other than to detail his life’s work. He’s killed thirteen of the undead and trained others. He explains that the woman was in the process of becoming a vampire after being attacked in the hills. He hands Max a stake and a mallet. Max asks about her fangs, and is told that the fangs vanish when the vampire is dead. He wants Rudy to cut off the woman’s head, and that doesn’t go well. Abraham may not be Father of the Year.
Abraham shows the boys how to defend the house against vampires as Mina gets more and more sickly. Max meets Elsie and they talk about his mother. Max wonders if Abraham’s treatments might be making Mina worse.
Mina dies, and there’s a funeral. Max dreams about Mina and Dracula. Arthur Holmwood, an old friend of Abraham and Mina’s, arrives. He, too, doubts what they did all those years ago, and he knows why Abraham is really in California. “What if we made a mistake?” He thinks Abraham turned him against Lucy, that she wasn’t a monster after all. Arthur leaves after an argument.
Max accuses his father of being insane, “There’s nothing out there!” Abraham then stabs him in the hand and throws him into the dungeon. Max soon breaks out, grabs his axe, and starts looking for his father, who has grabbed Rudy and run off.
Meanwhile, Elsie is in the railroad camp, and she talks to Henry, who goes suddenly quiet when he steps out of the camp. Henry comes out of the woods holding a bloody neck, and then a man in black grabs Elsie– it's Abraham! He insists that Rudy drive a stake through Elsie’s heart. Rudy turns around and stakes his father in the belly instead, which just angers him. Max comes up from behind and finishes him off with the axe. Elsie runs off.
Max and Rudy ride off, leaving their home behind. They pass Elsie and Eddie on the way out of the area.
Brian’s Commentary
It’s more of a family drama than a real horror story, but obviously it fits here. After a while, we were questioning whether Van Helsing was a monster hunter or serial killer. We eventually get down to the truth, as Max learns to understand his father.
It’s an interesting take on the vampire story. It wasn’t exactly what I expected, but I did find it entertaining.
Kevin’s Commentary
At first I thought it was going to be a standard vampire tale, and as it unfolded I kept waiting for the vampires to show up. Not only are there no vampires here, but it leaves you wondering if there were really vampires in Dracula. It’s on the slow moving side, but I didn’t mind a bit.
Short Films:
2023 Short Film Detox
Directed by: Alex Hanno
Written by: Alex Hanno, Wes Hopper
Stars: Caitlin Morris, Bill Prokopow
Run Time: 9 Minutes
Watch it:
What Happens
Shelly spends too much time with technology, so she wants 48 hours away from her phone, a “digital detox.” She rents a house, turns off her phone, and listens to the soothing voice of the instructor telling her how to be calm without the constant input of her phone.
Then again, maybe she really needs that phone…
Commentary
I picked the wrong day to stop surfing Reddit/Twitter/HorrorGuys.
We all want to do this so badly, but we fear what we’re going to miss. This well filmed, nice-looking, briefly paced film shows us that we were right. We will miss something.
Very funny!
2020 Short Film The Teachers
Directed by: Jaclyn Blythe
Written by: Jaclyn Blythe
Stars: Keith Gallucci, Taylor Behrens, Jaclyn Blythe
Run Time: 8 Minutes
Watch it:
What Happens
Three experienced teachers throw a small dinner party for the new guy. He’s nervous but wants to fit in with his new colleagues. They start complaining about their students, as all teachers do, but when one particularly problematic kid comes up, the old guard has a unique way of dealing with it.
Commentary
Every teacher thinks about this at one time or another, but very few actually follow through on their responsibilities. Every person new to a job or career needs good mentors and advisors, and Alex is lucky enough to have some good ones!
2016 Short Film The Sound of Blue, Green, and Red
Directed by: Joshua Erkman
Written by: Joshua Erkman, Star Rosencrans
Stars: Dasha Nekrasova, Michael Villar
Run Time: 10 Minutes
Watch it:
What Happens
A woman sits in a motel room in the desert. She watches TV, sits by the pool, and wanders around. Suddenly, the TV gets filled with colors, and it seems almost hypnotic. Afterward, she starts behaving strangely. Meanwhile, her husband is out driving around and looking for her.
Commentary
This is a weird one, and I have to admit I don’t completely understand it. It looks great, the sound is excellent, and I was left wanting more. Excellently done!
2016 Short Film La Cena
Directed by: Karim Shaker
Written by: Karim Shaker, Pablo Schulmann
Stars: Fonsi Liebana, Silvia Segovia, Jordi Estupina
Run Time: 10 minutes 13 seconds
Watch it:
What Happens
One young couple goes to have dinner with another couple as they discuss possibly adopting a child. The child’s mother, on the other hand, has different ideas. Things may not be quite as they seem.
Commentary
The situation is awkward and uncomfortable. You know you’d want to get out of there after the encounter with the mother, but they want the child badly enough to stick around. Sometimes, getting what you want isn’t all it's cracked up to be.
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