{"id":25492,"date":"2017-06-12T19:08:23","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T23:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=25492"},"modified":"2017-06-12T19:16:03","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T23:16:03","slug":"horror-shorts-from-the-2nd-2017-final-girls-berlin-film-festival-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/12\/horror-shorts-from-the-2nd-2017-final-girls-berlin-film-festival-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Horror Shorts from the 2nd Final Girls Berlin Film Festival 2017: Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I was lucky enough to be able to review many of the short films that played for audiences at the 2nd 2017 Final Girls Berlin Film Festival. The festival which runs from June 9th<\/sup> to June 11th<\/sup> features a wide array of horror films, horror shorts and horror programs fueled by creative female voices, from writers, and directors alike. This year, they ran the anthology \u201cXX\u201d and a myriad new female powered genre titles, along with a big block of short genre films with specific themes. These are a few of the shorts that played.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Wakey Wakey (2017)
\n\u201cIs It Dead?\u201d Block
\n<\/strong>The premise for Rebecca Gransbury\u2019s short seems kind of centered on the ending and nothing more, but it\u2019s a good testament to the power of the imagination. Two girls hide out in a morgue in an attempt to let loose with some wine. They\u2019re surprised that there is a single body in the morgue and suddenly they begin to grow horrified when they swear they heard the body move. \u201cWakey Wakey\u201d has a clever pay off, even if the scenario is far fetched.
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\"\"<\/a>The Perfect Shot (2017)
\n\u201cIs It Dead?\u201d Block
\n<\/strong>Natasha Leivers\u2019s short entry is a creepy and simple installment where a young photography enthusiast sets out to get a good shot for her collage. While looking for the perfect shot, she comes across a mysterious scarecrow in a field. When she sets out to take a picture of it, she realizes she\u2019s being stalked. Again it\u2019s a fairly simplistic short with a neat set up and makes up for the lack of spooks with a nicely staged final scene.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Man in the Moon (2016)
\n\u201cMommy Issues\u201d Block
\n<\/strong>Monique Mulcahy\u2019s \u201cMan in the Moon\u201d is a spooky but very interesting tale with more of a science fiction bent. It reminded me a lot of an episode of \u201cThe Ray Bradbury Chronicles\u201d where a young single mother realizes something is wrong with her son Lincoln. After some distortion with her radio, she notices her son Lincoln is talking to his weird science fiction video game, and refuses to take off his head phones. Soon she begins following him around as he grows more and more distant and is horrified to discover his video game isn\u2019t quite a video game, and that her son is lurking around with various figured draped in darkness and preparing for something huge. Filled with great visuals and an ambiguous climax, this is a definite gem.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Willow<\/strong> Garden<\/strong> (2016)
\n\u201cSweet Revenge\u201d Block
\n<\/strong>Kate MacDonald and Kendall Brunson\u2019s short horror entry is an ambiguous revenge entry that will keep a lot of audiences trying to decipher what it means for hours. I saw it twice and I\u2019m still not sure what the general idea was. Couple Mona and Keith venture out in to a wooded area by a lake to take a weekend of camping after a loss in their lives. As they do their best to have a good time, Mona swears she hears a growling emanating from the woods. Before long this paranoia culminates in to a confrontation with her husband involving a grave decision she was forced to make. It\u2019s a very eerie short film with strong performances from the small cast, and it works in tone and atmosphere, and offers a very relevant narrative theme even if I was never sure what the final scene indicated.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Rotten (2016)
\n\u201cDying of Laughter\u201d Block
\n<\/strong>Rona Cohen\u2019s dark comedy feels like a big build up to a joke with absolutely no punch line. There\u2019s so much inexplicability to a movie that could have been quite weird. \u201cRotten\u201d focuses on a spoiled little girl who hate tomatoes who is stuck with a grandmother for the weekend. She happens to be a gardening buff who adores tomatoes. Angered by her grandmother\u2019s insistence on feeding her tomato based foods, she decides to end her problem by stealing an antique gun from her office. Cohen\u2019s film is well directed, but there\u2019s no real pay off or purpose to a lot of what occurs. It\u2019s just a lot of silly situations and then the movie just fades to an end.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Drip Drop (2016)
\n\u201cEscape\u201d Block
\n<\/strong>Jonna Nilsson\u2019s survival horror short benefits from its simplicity. A young woman who lives alone is horrified to learn that there is a hive of flesh eating alien leeches crawling from out of her drains. Alone and armed only with a butcher knife she attempts to fight them off as they surround her mercilessly. \u201cDrip Drop\u201d is a gross but creepy film with a great surprise ending. Nilsson is a sharp director I hope to see more from very soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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