{"id":30584,"date":"2019-02-27T14:12:40","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T19:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=30584"},"modified":"2019-02-27T14:20:28","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T19:20:28","slug":"the-shorts-of-we-are-the-weirdos-2-2019-presented-by-the-final-girls-collective-women-in-horror-month-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/27\/the-shorts-of-we-are-the-weirdos-2-2019-presented-by-the-final-girls-collective-women-in-horror-month-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"The Shorts of \u201cWe Are the Weirdos 2 2019: Presented by The Final Girls Collective\u201d [Women in Horror Month 2019]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Featuring some of the greatest new and emerging female talent in the genre space, these films delve deep into the darkest human desires from a uniquely female perspective. These are films that delve deep into the darkest corners of the human experience, bringing an unforgettable array of monsters to the screen and offering a fresh and perverse perspective on horror. \u201cWe Are The Weirdos is at the core of what we want The Final Girls to be about: a platform which can nurture, champion and spotlight female talent at the centre of the horror genre.\u201d adds co-director Anna Bogutskaya. \u201cThe programme is distributed by The Final Girls and it is our intention to make this an annual event at cinemas worldwide.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Blood Runs Down (2017)
\n<\/strong>Zandash\u00e9 Brown\u2019s thriller is a statement about the relationship between mothers and their daughters and perils of being a single parent. Told through three chapters, we get to meet Elise and her daughter Ana, both of whom become the victim of a dark force in their house. As Elise embraces the darkness within her, Ana realizes she has to do some quick growing up and face down her once beloved mother. \u201cBlood Runs Down\u201d doesn\u2019t quite clarify a ton of details, but there are heavy themes about spirituality, grief, and the stresses of being a single mom. It\u2019s not a masterpiece, but it\u2019s at least well directed.<\/p>\n

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CATCALLS (2018)
\n<\/strong>Kate Dolan\u2019s horror thriller is a nice bit of karmic justice for a pair of girls walking the road one night. After being stopped by a man in his car, he drives off after he reveals himself to them masturbating. When he gets home to his wife, he realizes he\u2019s being stalked by a pair of humanoid cat like monsters that intend to ravage him. Dolan\u2019s horror film is a creepy and fun tale of revenge and a neat message about respect.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Cerulia (2017)
\n<\/strong>Sofia Carrillo\u2019s animated fantasy is beautiful in its style and absolutely haunting at times. Animated with some brilliant stop motion, \u201cCerulia\u201d finds a young girl named Cerulia who visits her childhood home with the intent to say goodbye. Of course the house refuses to let her go, and she has to basically confront her past and face her future. \u201cCerulia\u201d is a wonderfully detailed and haunting tale of the grip the past can tend to keep on us throughout our lives. The animation is unique and will likely stay in the viewer\u2019s minds for a long time.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>#EATPRETTY (2018)
\n<\/strong>Rebecca Culversome\u2019s experimental short is bizarre and never quite lands its intended message. I assume most of the film is about the concept of commercialism and consumerism and the pressures to fit a particular image that magazines promote to the public. Despite some weird direction and obvious overtones about false advertising so prominent in advertising, \u201c#EATPRETTY\u201d comes off more like an student film than anything else. I was never sure if it was intended as horror or dark comedy.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Goodnight (2018)
\n<\/strong>\u201cGoodnight\u201d is set on an evening where a married couple tucks their daughter in to bed. As they attempt to get intimate, they begin hearing voices in their daughter\u2019s room. Soon the mother darts to her daughter\u2019s bedroom intent on finding out what is happening. Diane Michelle\u2019s horror film is a creepy and classic tale of childhood innocence lost with some overtones that seemed pretty fascinating. I\u2019ve read interviews with Diane Michelle and she doesn\u2019t seem to quite indicate the big connection between the film\u2019s monster and the young daughter\u2019s monster and why he has it under her bed. Is he feeding the monster? Is he forming some intimate bond with the daughter he doesn\u2019t want anyone intervening with? A lot of shots seem to indicate something so much more boiling underneath beyond a simple monster movie. In either case, \u201cGoodnight\u201d is well filmed, creepy, and has a memorable final scene.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Inseyed (2018)
\n<\/strong>Jessica Hudak\u2019s animated tale is a short but morbid story of a young girl who awakens one night sure she\u2019s being watched. When she enters her bathroom, she discovers something horrific within her eye. \u201cInseyed\u201d is only two minutes in length but has a great sense of humor, a morbid final scene, and some wonderful stop motion animation that injects some fun dark whimsy.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The Lady from 406 (2017)
\n<\/strong>Lee Kyoung\u2019s \u201cThe Lady from 406\u201d has a good idea about grief and the eternal torment of regret and guilt, it\u2019s just so muddled and convoluted. A young woman living in an apartment complex is tortured by her neighbor\u2019s incessant smoking and writes him a letter to cut the habit down for the sake of her daughter. The pair begin a back and forth letter writing conversation that ends in a confusing final scene that never quite clarifies what it\u2019s supposed to symbolize at all. Are we watching a reality or the picture of a woman\u2019s eternal hell? What did she do to stay in this continuous loop? In either case, I loved the tone of the film, I just didn\u2019t think much of the overall narrative.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Puppet Master (2018)
\n<\/strong>Hanna Bergholm\u2019s fantasy drama is one of the strongest statements about manipulation and abusive relationships I\u2019ve seen in a while. A young woman (Merja P\u00f6yh\u00f6nen) finds herself in love with a puppet maker, who then embraces her. When he does, he begins building her in a new image as a puppet. As she becomes his unwitting pawn as her ventriloquist, she spends much of the film deciding if she wants to remain the puppet or take control of herself. \u201cPuppet Master\u201d is poetic and weird, and has a bold idea about staying true to yourself through the very end.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are the Weirdos 2: The Final Girls Collective\u201d tours from February 16th<\/sup> to February 28th<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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