2025 Short Film Mary

• Directed by: Alexander Chehrazi
• Written by: Alexander Chehrazi, Max Markov
• Stars: Lanisa Dawn, Alex Gravenstein, Alex DuBois
• Run Time: 17:34
• Watch it: Not Yet. It’s on the festival circuit

What Happens

A young couple, Tom and Briana, text back and forth about their upcoming date. Later, at the bar, he’s a little late to arrive, but they’ve both been at this online dating thing for a while. They complain that people aren’t “real” online. Still, they like each other, and he invites her to his place. On the way out, she sees someone sketchy in the corner. When she looks again, the stranger is gone.
They head to his place in his car, but she sees that strange man there again, at Tom’s house.
What’s really going on here? Who’s Mary, anyway?

Commentary

This is well shot and the characters are both believable and likable. It gets more and more tense as the suspense builds and we hear more about Briana’s past. Even as we get the explanation, it gets worse and worse until the end.
It’s very good!