Running at just under 6 minutes, this little gem was directed by Frank Ippolito and Ezekiel Zabrowski, released in 2010 and was based on a feature script (and we can but hope),
This was an ode to 50s sci-fi, if ever I saw it, and well shot for a little short that I assume was a proof of concept.
It starts with a couple walking along. Dan (Neil Patrick Harris) had never been to the ballet before and his companion, Marketa (Aprella), is one of the ballerinas. She holds a rose, which he threw at curtain call; something she has not seen for a hundred years. He lets that comment slip. She also wants to know what’s inside him (blood obviously) but she is leaving tomorrow.
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Perhaps he can go with her, he knows business practices – though he is still in school – but when she says that the troupe leader prefers to run things his way, he suggests that he has some experience with a spotlight and maybe that would be enough. Marketa takes him to where her sister Marya (Erica Taylor) is but things are too quick for Dan. Some eye mojo and he is keen again. Fangs appear and Marya bites him but the blood spurts green…
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The blood is poisonous, it seems, and Dan rips his head open to reveal the alien brain in control, bat-winged and ready to attack Marketa. What will the blood do to her sister though? This was fab, the filming was nicely gothic, the effects fab with the head tearing effective and the brain was like something out of the 50s (indeed it sort of reminded me of Fiend Without a Face). Great fun.
The imdb page is here.
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