{"id":22959,"date":"2016-10-27T14:51:56","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T18:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=22959"},"modified":"2016-10-27T14:52:42","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T18:52:42","slug":"other-shorts-from-horrible-imaginings-horrible-imaginings-film-festival-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/27\/other-shorts-from-horrible-imaginings-horrible-imaginings-film-festival-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Other Shorts From Horrible Imaginings [Horrible Imaginings Film Festival 2016]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"other-shorts-1\"<\/a>L\u2019Ours Noir (The Black Bear) (France) (2015)
\n<\/strong>Written and directed by M\u00e9ryl Fortunat-Rossi and Xavier Seron, L\u2019Ours Noir is a film based on a safety pamphlet about black bears in the north of Quebec.\u00a0 A group of hikers go in a forest to explore the land, when they meet a black bear for which they were supposed to learn the rules before going.\u00a0 The film they build is absolutely hilarious and gory, sporting a talented cast with a great sense of timing.\u00a0 The cast is composed mainly of Francois Neycken, Jean-Jacques Rausin, Terence Rion, Catherine Sal\u00e9e, and Jean-Benoit Ugeux who all give great performances in the crazy circumstances they are thrown in.\u00a0 The film also boasts fantastic special effects that fit just right with it.\u00a0 The bear used might be cuddly looking but his attacks are vicious, funny, and bloody.\u00a0 This short is possibly the funniest horror-comedy this reviewer has seen this year and in a long while.\u00a0 It\u2019s absolutely fantastic and must be watched if you get the chance.<\/p>\n

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Mute (USA) (2016)
\n<\/strong>In the woods, a madman is holding hikers hostage, hurting them and taking their tongues.\u00a0 While A Color Green\u2019s short looks good, the story is very thin with most of the violence happening off screen.\u00a0 The blood looks good and there\u2019s plenty of it.\u00a0 However, the film doesn\u2019t have much of an impact for some reason that is hard to fully pinpoint.\u00a0 The cast of victims does well in their parts, being scared and hurt.\u00a0 The bad guy, the man keeping them unfortunately feels like he is over-doing it a bit.\u00a0 This creates issues with caring for the story and for the film, however, the victims are good enough to counter balance this and keep the attention.\u00a0 Something feels like it\u2019s missing in this bloody short, keeping it from its full potential.<\/p>\n

GEMU (Japan) (2015)
\n<\/strong>In this Japanese Giant Monster film, a student finally manages to make a move to let his dream girl know he\u2019s interested when something is stalking her and other students.\u00a0 With the help of a teacher in the know, he prepares to fight something he does not know.\u00a0 Shingo Maehata\u2019s film is a decent monster film that starts off looking quite good and unfortunately loses some of its visual quality.\u00a0 Thankfully, when the giant monster shows up, it looks great showing off quality work in building a suitmation monster out of traditional effects and modern techniques.\u00a0 The film has some issues but in the end is a fun ride, a monster film where when the monster finally shows up, it makes fans of the genre and special effects forget these issues and just fall in love with the film.<\/p>\n

\"other-shorts2\"<\/a>Earworm (USA) (2016)
\n<\/strong>A man is afflicted with an annoying earworm as he just cannot get rid of this song in his head.\u00a0 Tara Price\u2019s short works as she puts great work in getting the maddening presence of an earworm just right.\u00a0 Lead actor, and only actor, Ernest Thomas gives a great performance as the afflicted, his earworm pulls the crazy out of him.\u00a0 Teaming up with the writing by Price, her directing, and Thomas\u2019 acting are the images and music.\u00a0 The music by Brian J. Emond and the cinematography by Vincent Valentin, assisted by Robert Krisch\u2019s editing and Cole Jennerson\u2019s visual effects get together to create a visual noise that happens each time the song pops up.\u00a0 This creates an all-around great effect and adds to the audience\u2019s understanding of the lead character\u2019s despair.\u00a0 Earworm is a fun short with a funny and satisfying ending.<\/p>\n

Hada (Spain) (2016)
\n<\/strong>Daniel lost a tooth and prepares for bed with a fear of what\u2019s in the dark as he expects a visit from Hada.\u00a0 In Tony Morales\u2019 short, childhood fears are palpable.\u00a0 The suspense builds up as the child uses his light to explore the dark corners of his room.\u00a0 As he and the audience expect and dread something coming out of the shadows, the suspense, tension, and fear build up and create a very creepy atmosphere.\u00a0 As it becomes expected, the main scare happens still packing quite the punch.\u00a0 The acting by lead child actor is quite good and takes the viewer on this creepy ride with him.\u00a0 Hada boasts a good, thick atmosphere of fear and delivers on the scares. It\u2019s one of those films that actually works and brings good levels of scares, something horror fans who watch many films per year see far too few times in a year.<\/p>\n

Z (South Korea) (2015)
\n<\/strong>Hamin finds himself in an underground hospital after an accident almost killed him.\u00a0 As he deals with amnesia, he meets a woman who helps him.\u00a0 At first.\u00a0 Z is a zombie movie with a socio-economic background that shows what can be done with zombies other than simple kill and\/or be infected.\u00a0 Written and directed by Hana Hwang and Dong-Hak Ahn, this short looks very slick and has an interesting story.\u00a0 The acting and effects are good but something is missing and it feels longer than it is as it\u2019s not keeping the attention.<\/p>\n

The Brentwood Strangler (USA) (2015)
\n<\/strong>Maggie is preparing for a date with a man she met only.\u00a0 Meanwhile, the Brentwood Strangler is on the loose killing women in the area.\u00a0 The strangler finds his way to being her date and they hit it off after a rocky start.\u00a0 This holiday horror film by John Fitzpatrick, who wrote and directed, is a well-crafted and funny take on dating in the 21st<\/sup> century and serial killers.\u00a0 The pairing may seem odd but it works.\u00a0 This is due in big part to the two leads Jorddan Ladd and Adam J. Yeend who go all out with their performances.\u00a0 Ladd\u2019s mildly crazy single lady works perfectly against Yeend\u2019s serial killer attempting to fit in.\u00a0 Their chemistry shows through their interactions and brings the film home.\u00a0 The Brentwood Strangler is funny and fun while it entertains.\u00a0 The dating life they show is pretty much on point for characters that are a bit crazy.<\/p>\n

Bionic Girl (France) (2015)
\n<\/strong>In this French musical written and directed by Stephanie Cabdevila, an introvert scientist who wants to avoid the outside world creates a robot version of herself to take on the world for her.\u00a0 With music by Mathieu Alvado and Cabdevila, this film builds a sweet story with catchy tunes.\u00a0 Lead Cl\u00e9mentine Poidatz does great acting against characters that look made of cardboard in an environment also made of cardboard or what looks to be.\u00a0 Her acting shows emotions and sweetness without turning saccharine.\u00a0 Partially animated, the film\u2019s animation by Cabdevila and Eloi Henriod looks great and creates a whimsical environment in which the lead character simply known as La Fille (The Girl) can evolve and find herself.\u00a0 This short is sweet with good music and great work put on the d\u00e9cor and characters.\u00a0 The story with theme of self-discovery and self-confidence is whimsical in a way that feels very French and is refreshing in the current cinematic landscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

L\u2019Ours Noir (The Black Bear) (France) (2015) Written and directed by M\u00e9ryl Fortunat-Rossi and Xavier Seron, L\u2019Ours Noir is a film based on a safety pamphlet about black bears in the north of Quebec.\u00a0 A group of hikers go in a forest to explore the land, when they meet a black bear for which they […]<\/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":[219,335,367,477,501,703,938,1087,1219,1221],"class_list":["post-22959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-festivalsevents","category-halloween-horror-month","category-movie-reviews","tag-comedy","tag-experimental","tag-foreign","tag-horror","tag-indie-film","tag-mystery","tag-short-film","tag-thriller","tag-zombie-apocalypse","tag-zombies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22959","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=22959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22962,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22959\/revisions\/22962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}