{"id":22501,"date":"2016-09-28T02:03:39","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T06:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=22501"},"modified":"2016-09-28T02:10:47","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T06:10:47","slug":"horrible-imaginings-film-festival-2016-comedy-shorts-block-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/28\/horrible-imaginings-film-festival-2016-comedy-shorts-block-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Horrible Imaginings Film Festival 2016 Comedy Shorts Block: Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"stained-poster\"<\/a>Stained (UK) (2016)
\n<\/strong>Everything that could go wrong at tea time.\u00a0 A man is encountering minor annoyances in an otherwise fine afternoon.\u00a0 As he goes to the loo, once he\u2019s done, he discovers that he is completely out of toilet paper.\u00a0 As he hobbles to the corner shop to buy some, he is haunted by his poo, taunting him, threatening him with a stain.\u00a0 Written by Mark A.C. Brown and directed by Phil Haine, Stained takes a basic life event, running out of t.p. and turns it on its head.\u00a0 The film is funny and it\u2019s due in big part to the leads played by Michael Shephard and Chris Spyrides who keep a straight face throughout.\u00a0 Thefilm takes this situation and pushes it to its absurd limit and it works beautifully well.<\/p>\n

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Kaddish! (France) (2012)
\n<\/strong>As a man heads home to go on vacation with his family, he stops at a rest area and this go incredibly\u2026 weird.\u00a0 And funny.\u00a0 To tell more of the story would be to do this short a disservice as what happens next is surprising, hilarious, and well executed.\u00a0 Writer\/director Emeline Castaneda creates a really funny and unexpected short.\u00a0 The ending is fantastic!\u00a0 The cast led by Steve Achiepo and Alexandre Pivette has great timing and does great things with that second half.\u00a0 This one needs to be seen.<\/p>\n

Landscape (USA) (2014)
\n<\/strong>After falling for the lady who owns and landscapes the garden he lives in, Gnorman The Gnome goes on a killing rampage for her love.\u00a0 Writers\/directors Patrick Gibbs and Paul Gibbs create a fun short about how a cute garden gnome can go mental and on a spree.\u00a0 It\u2019s dark, it\u2019s funny, it\u2019s basically the flipside of Amelie and her travelling gnome.\u00a0 The performance by Gnorman (who did all his own stunts) is perfect for the part while his love interest is played by Brooke Kelly who is perfectly lovely and charming.\u00a0 The music by Randin Graves is fun and adds to Gnorman\u2019s adventures.\u00a0 This gnome is killer!<\/p>\n

Dark Roast (USA) (2014)
\n<\/strong>This very short short explores the dating life of a Reaper as she finds out that her latest date is just like the others, not quite capable of accepting her as she is.\u00a0 Pete Yagmin writes and directs an effective 3 minute dark comedy while Diana Porter shows good timing and talent as the lead.\u00a0 The intro to this one is cool and well done and the humor is on point.<\/p>\n

A Zombie Next Door (USA) (2014)
\n<\/strong>Written and directed by Frank Dietz and Trish Geiger, based on Geiger\u2019s idea, this short is a faux documentary about people who adopt and care for zombies like there are pets.\u00a0 As these are exotic and dangerous pets, owners can only have one at a time and three is considered a herd.\u00a0 This film is inspired in part by an actual documentary called A Tiger Next Door and by the humor and style of Christopher Guest films.\u00a0 Some of the lines were ad-libbed as the cast has a great talent for comedy.\u00a0 This cast led by Ron Rogg\u00e9 and Alison Martin is funny and handles the ridiculousness of their situation beautifully.\u00a0 The xombies like Bub who was found in Florida are homages to the films of Romero and other classics.\u00a0 The effects on these zombies are good but sadly not great.\u00a0 However, the short is funny beyond this and is a hoot through and through.<\/p>\n

The Procedure (USA) (2016)
\n<\/strong>A man is captured and awakens tied to a table in a warehouse.\u00a0 A bizarre experiment is conducted on him.\u00a0 Written and directed by Calvin Reeder, this very short short brings all kinds of What-the-Fuck to the table with its short and weird experiment.\u00a0 The ending almost makes the whole film.\u00a0 Lead actors Frank Mosley and Christian Palmer do great in their respective parts.\u00a0 The way this short holds the attention and builds tension makes it interesting past the WTF factor and gives it a more powerful impact on viewers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stained (UK) (2016) Everything that could go wrong at tea time.\u00a0 A man is encountering minor annoyances in an otherwise fine afternoon.\u00a0 As he goes to the loo, once he\u2019s done, he discovers that he is completely out of toilet paper.\u00a0 As he hobbles to the corner shop to buy some, he is haunted by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1284,10,12],"tags":[219,367,477,501,938],"class_list":["post-22501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-festivalsevents","category-literature","category-movie-reviews","tag-comedy","tag-foreign","tag-horror","tag-indie-film","tag-short-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22503,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22501\/revisions\/22503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}