Short Film: Brackish (2022)

Synopsis

We see a woman underwater, and she has strange eyes. She watches a couple of old people in a canoe paddling by and ignores them. Another woman stands on the dock and does a nature landscape painting as the water-creature watches. The painter decides to take a break and have a swim…

Commentary

There’s no dialog in this one at all. The acting here is good, the strange water creature is suitably alien and strange-acting without being terrifying, at least at first. The story goes about how you’d expect, but it looks good and tells the story that it needs to tell. If I had a complaint, it would be that the painter and the woman fishing looked a lot alike, and it wasn’t immediately clear what was going on.