Monday, August 19, 2019

Short Film: Down in the Dark

This is a 2018 short that comes in around the 6-minute mark and was directed by Daljit Kalsi Jr. As it manages to throw a monster mash together you can probably guess that it doesn’t have much more than cameos in but one of those cameos is vampire in nature.

It is set in the abandoned “Old Wesley Hospital Site” on Halloween night and four generic kids prowl the spooky halls. How generic? There is the Goth Girl (Camila Escobar), the hipster (Myles Moore), the athlete (Jonah Bishop-Pirrone) and the good girl (Audrey Dickson) – though their names portray stereotypes more than their looks/behaviours which are just ‘kids’. The girls are there first and the guys try to scare them and then they get to the stairs to the basement.

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They try to work out what might be down in the dark and the first guess is that it is a vampire lair… We get images of a vampire (Lavin Cuddihee) and his bride (Robyn Wells). Despite having a victim strapped into a chair he is getting frustrated by blood baggies (and getting in to them) – portion control we discover… If this had been a full-length film their appearance would have been a fleeting visitation but, nevertheless, they are there. We also get guesses around witches and a serial killer creating a Frankensteinean bride… but what is really down there?

The imdb page is here.

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