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What We Found Out There (Writ & Dir. Karl Kimmel), Short Film Review by Case Wright

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Why would a serial killer use Betamax? This question is very specific, but “What We Found Out There” answers it! I’m leery to give away the twist on this one because it’s … okay- it’s not amazing, but it’s not bad either. I would describe this short that way too: it’s…okay, not great, but aggressively mediocre. “What We Found Out There” is the six hours of sleep, the two dollar win on a five dollar scratch ticket, the soft cooked bacon, the flat soda, or the tie game of films.

Two friends go hiking and find an injured hiker who has a bag of Betamax tapes. They go straight to the police? Nope. Call in emergency services? Nope, that’s for wimps! The two guys go to their creepy friend’s house who has Betamax capabilities and they watch the tapes and discover that they are films of a man’s murders! Yes, the tapes are the recordings of a prolific serial killer! But whodunit?

The film does answer whodunit, but how? If you were expecting an answer on how, tough cookies! You heard me! Should you watch this? Why not? I mean, it’s not the worst thing I’ve seen. You won’t love it, but it is a solid mid.

The Nightwalker, Short Film Review by Case Wright

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Happy Halloween! I’ve really enjoyed this horrorthon. Were some of the films terrible? Oh Yeah!

Some were terrible!

AI has improved by a quantum leap and will likely surpass all normal film in the next 3 years. If “Nightwalker” is the competition for AI films, good riddance to traditional filmmaking. Do a lot of the characters look leathery and similar in AI films? You betcha! However, they’re less pretentious and boring.

In “Nightwalker”, a boring knight wants to get immortal life and seeks out a vampire and finds one. All I kept thinking was- why didn’t they use AI? It would’ve been better and cheaper. Granted, this short film was garbage trash; so, maybe the AI substitution is a bit unfair. What do I say to this critique? Bruh, whaddya a cop?

I will do a few more reviews for Halloween, but I hope the films are better than this. Let the machines rise!!!

The Leshy, Short Film Review by Case Wright

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The Leshy is a “micro horror film”. Is it terrible? No. It’s not. Jon Kent, the creator, has some real brass. I was very skeptical that a short film could deliver a story in a minute, but it did. The characters are clear, there is a story, and a payoff. The Leshy checks all the blocks for an entertaining short and does not try to be more than it is.

A man is dragging a dead body in the woods and he gets hunted by the leshy. I don’t know the physiology of a leshy, but it seems hungry. I would highly recommend that you take a minute out of your day to watch this.

Peek a Boo, Short Film Review by Case Wright

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A woman hears a noise so she checks out her attic. Then, she finds a mysterious box with a VHS tape inside. Okay lady, that’s enough. Go away from the cursed box and cursed VHS tape. Are you literally the only person who didn’t see “The Ring”. Enough! Stop! Put those evil things away and get a normal hobby. She lacks all survival skills.

She starts watching the film and it has creepy background music. She starts playing peek-a-boo with the girl in the film who did warn her not to cheat. Did she cheat? Yes. Did the girl become an evil ghost? Yes! I have no sympathy for her- at all.

Don’t Look At Me, Short Film Review by Case Wright

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A group of cartoon people are in a room and one lady leaves and now she’s in a tilted home and a person. Yeah, I’m confused too. The story flashes back and forth from cartoon to her as a person. Then, she has multiple hands.

I’m so confused that I’m not scared. I just don’t understand. I feel like I need to do math problems after this to return to some order.

You can watch this if you want to, but why? Who hurt you? You deserve love.

Elevator Man, Short Film Review by Case Wright

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I knew that I had to review an Alex Magana film. Afterall, he makes them … on purpose and I’m sure that I’ve been wrong about things … maybe? But, not these films. This is going to be terrible because you can’t fix this, but we’ll get through this together. Maybe.

A woman is taking the elevator in a parking garage, but all of the buttons are pressed. Every time the door opens, who’s there – yep, Elevator Man. He appears to be Amish. He’s aggressively Amish; for real, check out this Amish vibe. Maybe, Rumspringa took a dark left turn?

I think you can survive Elevator Man, if you just throw a zipper at him; he’ll be confounded for weeks…weeks!

She sees him on every floor. She gets to the 5th floor and he’s waiting for her; so, she goes to the roof and he’s now in the elevator and really slowly grabs her like really slowly. You could’ve just walked to your car and he’d be like “A Car?”. Then, you drive away to safety and he goes back to selling well-made furniture.

Stall, Short Film Review by Case Wright

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I was not able to relate too much to this film because I don’t spend a lot of time in bathrooms. In this film, women are in the bathroom, try to leave, and are confronted by a demon; so, they hide in the stall, which works … I guess?

All I can write is that this was a film that was made…on purpose. You must have better things to do than watch this.

The Speaker From Hell, Short Film Review by Case Wright

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I describe True Fiction Pictures as sort of Christian. The production company is not explicitly Christian, but they have Christian themes. They swear a lot and have jokes that are based in edgy things, but there is a moral lesson in these comedies. In fact, they quote the bible at the end of the film.

This film depicts a motivation speaker who makes a hard left turn, accuses one of the attendees of being a Hellbound sinner, and the sinner vows to repent. It was funny and kind of scary, trust me.

I put this in the Christian film camp. If you think about it, – it had bad language and adult humor that might be a great vehicle to get a lot of people to watch a Christian film and learn a lesson who would never seek out a Christian film. I do not claim to fully understand this production company, but the film had humor, a clear Christian message, and I was thoroughly entertained.

Like New, Short Film Review by Case Wright

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Like New is another short film from High Low productions, which specializes in terrible short films. I can only imagine the business plan! They also made The Call … on purpose.

The protagonist is dressing up his mannequin and then taking photos. Out of nowhere, she now has her arms up. Oh No! The mannequin is also now moving on her own or at least sliding. Then, the mannequin puts the Whammy on him; so, he becomes a mannequin! The ending is fair because he did not say, No Whammies!

Uh Oh, she forgot to say, No Whammies!

Like New will hopefully get us to a world without Whammy-related tragedy!

Hands Off, Micro Short Film Review by Case Wright

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As of now, this micro short has only been viewed 71 times. I haven’t seen this yet, but I am slightly hopeful that it won’t be hot garbage. Here we go!

This short is only 2 minutes and 18 seconds and he starts with…exposition. UGHHGH.

The protagonist, who I will refer to as Mr. Exposition-pants, is walking in the woods on his phone and explaining in great detail why he is there. Apparently, Mr. Exposition-pants took a photography class and is now taking pictures in the woods. Got all that? If not, please rewind and he’ll go over it again for 25% of the film’s total length!

Mr. Exposition-pants finds a severed hand and calls the police? No, he takes a photo and sees another hand that has a note that reads – “Delete that photo”. He does eventually call the police and it’s a demon on the other end. Then, I couldn’t understand what was happening.

You could watch this film or literally do ANYTHING else.