Coming in at the eleven-minute mark, this short film from director L. Gustavo Cooper is a class piece of film-making, though as a short film it perhaps is better as a proof of concept for a longer film. Certainly, it could well be turned into a feature, or even a series.
It follows Charlie (Anne Winters) a girl living on the streets, who gets a message on her phone about seeking a friend.
She is seen by a motel receptionist walking past and goes to a door, which is opened by John (Drew Powell, True Blood). As she enters, he intimates that he doesn’t normally do this sort of thing but, as she undresses, we see her putting her clothes in plastic bags. He asks why and she, as she comes up behind him, replies that it’s so she doesn’t get blood on them.
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| fangs |
Then she is on his neck, clinging to his back as blood spatters the walls. As she raises her head, we see her fangs. After the feed we see her in the bathroom, cleaning the blood from her face. When she leaves the motel room we see her extremities begin to smoke slightly; the sun is coming up. We then follow her, briefly, in her homeless life – where she is assumed to be a prostitute and where one person wants to reach out to her. What she doesn’t realise is that sometimes the hunter is hunted…
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| making a friend |
This was really well done, it really built characters and a world, in very broad brush but it was a joy to see the storyteller’s craft expertly wielded. As I said at the head of this article, this feels like it should be a proof of concept and I would love to see Charlie return in something more substantial.
The imdb page is here.
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