{"id":22674,"date":"2016-10-10T03:06:17","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T07:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=22674"},"modified":"2016-10-10T01:14:27","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T05:14:27","slug":"human-killers-and-psychological-terrors-shorts-block-part-1-horrible-imaginings-film-festival-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/10\/human-killers-and-psychological-terrors-shorts-block-part-1-horrible-imaginings-film-festival-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Killers and Psychological Terrors Shorts Block Part 1 [Horrible Imaginings Film Festival 2016]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"human-killers-short-part-1-postpartum\"<\/a>Dante\u2019s Penance (Music Video) (USA) (2016)<\/strong>
\nA rap music video showing a man ready to commit murder for a beautiful woman based on the 9 circles of Hell, this video written and directed by Dante Moran who also did the cinematography, editing, casting, was a part of the effects team, etc is a visually interesting but its story feels as though it\u2019s part of something else, something as of yet incomplete.\u00a0 The cast led by Thomas Gunter gives decent performances and the effects look good.\u00a0 It will be interesting to see how it ties into the bigger Penance project.<\/p>\n

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Dissociative (UK) (2016)<\/strong>
\nA man wakes up with his wife dead without any idea of what happened.\u00a0 As he looks for an explanation, flashbacks give clues.\u00a0 Written by Tom Gordon and Damon Rickard, who also directed, the film has an interesting story and some well-done effects but the shaky cam that starts the film and comes back later is annoying at first and a hindrance to the story as it comes back.\u00a0 Its reason for being makes sense but it takes the viewer out of the story.\u00a0 The music by Eric Elick matches the story well and thankfully helps bring the viewer back in.<\/p>\n

Ellie (Canada) (2016)<\/strong>
\n16 year-old writer\/director Morgana McKenzie is back with her sixth short, this one about a young man has had more than enough of being his captor\u2019s victim and servant.\u00a0 As he plans his escape, he forgets a few details.\u00a0 The film\u2019s young lead, played by Sebastian Labissiere does well in keeping the mystery until the final reveal.\u00a0 Writer\/director Morgana McKenzie is definitely a talent to watch.\u00a0 She has a few shorts on her resume and they keep getting better.<\/p>\n

Surgery (UK) (2015)<\/strong>
\nAfter having the life beaten and tortured out of him, a mysterious man finds himself under the care of a surgeon with unorthodox methods.\u00a0 Written by Brian and Samuel Clemens and directed by the latter and George Clemens, this short is torture and cruelty with a purpose.\u00a0 The special effects by Cliff Wallace are gruesome and fairly realistic; they are enough (and then some) to make most horror fans cringe.\u00a0 Supporting, and in contrast to, the story is the cinematography by Fermando Ruiz which shows the beautiful British countryside, including beautiful aerial shots, as well as the violence imposed the mysterious man.\u00a0 Also quite effective is the sound design which adds to the discomfort created by the effects and violence on screen.\u00a0 The way this film mixes beauty with gore, the music with the sound effects, calm images with violent ones, shows a developed knowledge of how to make horror work.\u00a0 This short is one effective film with a nicely satisfactory ending.<\/p>\n

Postpartum (USA) (2015)<\/strong>
\nDirector Izzy Lee, who also wrote with Christopher Hallock, creates the short tale of a woman affected by postpartum depression.\u00a0 This woman has a strong case of it and goes a lot further than most new moms would to calm down the crying of her infant.\u00a0 Lead actress Kasey Lansdale pulls no punches in her performance, doing as Lee instructed her and going all out with the crazy.\u00a0 Her performance is mesmerizing, especially given how sweet she is normally.\u00a0 This performance, along with that of the talented Diana Porter, anchors the short and keeps the viewer connected to the story.\u00a0 The short takes a very serious subject and pushes it to the brink, making its point come across clearly while entertaining and not making light of the mental affliction at its center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dante\u2019s Penance (Music Video) (USA) (2016) A rap music video showing a man ready to commit murder for a beautiful woman based on the 9 circles of Hell, this video written and directed by Dante Moran who also did the cinematography, editing, casting, was a part of the effects team, etc is a visually interesting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1284,7,12],"tags":[477,501,699,938,1087],"class_list":["post-22674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-festivalsevents","category-halloween-horror-month","category-movie-reviews","tag-horror","tag-indie-film","tag-music-video","tag-short-film","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22674","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=22674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22676,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22674\/revisions\/22676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}