Directors: Daniel R. Black, Ryan Convery
Writer: Daniel R. Black
Stars: Morgan Boss-Maltais, Luke Crory, Laquisha Gebhard
33 Minutes
Link: [http://www.fatfootfilms.com/]
Synopsis
A girl runs through the woods and passes out.
Credits roll.
A father and his two children wake up chained to walls in a basement. Jack comes down the steps, and they know him. The father says he’ll get twenty years for this. Jack is a policeman, and he asks about Stacy…
Eleven months ago, we see that Stacy is in the hospital, and Jack is outside waiting for the doctor. He is her grandfather, and he found Stacy unconscious in his backyard. She’s been attacked by an animal. It was her we saw collapsing before the credits. She wakes up and we see that she has iridescent eyes.
She goes home and watches the crescent moon rise. She’s angry because her grandmother left Jack years ago and took Stacy’s mother with her. We don’t know what happened, but they are both dead now. He admits he was an asshole, and he regrets what he did back then.
One night, Jack goes to work, and the lights start going crazy. There’s a full moon outside, and we hear growling inside the house. The next morning, Jack returns and finds blood all over the floor. The dog is missing, and Stacy is in the bathroom trying to wash off all the blood…
We come back to the present, and Jack says the lawyer and his two children will all be dead in sixteen minutes if they don’t help him.
We then flash back and see how Jack and Stacy dealt with her new problem…
Commentary
This looks really good and is very well acted. The sound, lighting, and direction here are really good and can stand up against any regular movie or tv episode. From the length of the credits, there were a lot of people involved with this; it’s not our typical short film. Paul looks a little too old to be an active-duty policeman, and Stacy looks too old to be walking to school with the lawyer’s daughter, but moving past that, they were both good in the roles.
I had the main plot pretty much pegged when I saw Stacy’s iridescent eyes, but it was still fun to watch it unfold. Jack’s birthday gift to Stacy got a laugh out of both of us, and the way the story is broken up works really well as well. This may not be the best short I’ve seen this year, but it’s way up there on the list, possibly coming in the top three.