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Sunday, 19 November 2017

Short Film Review

Living Nightmares

The film begins with a medium tilt short of a young man twisting and turning, as he turns on his side we have a match on action as it cuts to a close up of his face pushed into his pillow. It stays on a close up of his face as he continues to have troubled sleep, we hear a message ringtone as white light flickers on his face and wall as if the light source is coming from the other side of the room. He wipes his eyes and proceeds to get up out of bed.


We see a medium shot of him sitting down in his desk chair and spinning around to face his computer monitor which is where the light source was coming from a few moments ago. He squints as the light coming from the computer monitor is too bright and his eyes need a moment to adjust, he again rubs his eyes to adjust to the bright light before looking at the monitor in disbelief. We cut to a close up of two messages on the computer screen, sent at 3:35 in the morning one reads 'Hi' and the other reads 'What are you doing?'. The young man reads the messages and begins to reply, he replies with 'Hi? Who are you?'. As each letter begins to appear, the next message reads 'Why don't you come over and find it out?' before the screen begins to glitch.


Shocked, he wipes his eyes again almost as if to wake up from a bad dream. He looks at the screen for a moment before replying to the weird messages he receiving, he agrees to come over and heads off. We then cut to a shot of him walking down the sidewalk and into an old abandoned building, once inside the building he shuts the door behind him and decides to go and explore, heading off further into the building. As he goes through a set of double doors there is a couple of loud bangs which startles the man causing him to run off and try to escape but once he gets to the doors, he realises they've been locked.


He then decides to head up the stairs to find another exit but to no avail and is continued to be followed by the strange noises. He carries on up the stairs before heading off down a corridor and as he makes his way down the corridor, a door suddenly opens to reveal a hooded figure sitting within the room. As he closes the door, the figure jumps back in its chair giving the man a fright as he slams the door shut.



Scared, he decides to continue looking for an exit out of the building, as he looks around another hooded figure stalks the corridor behind him. Walking down the corridor he looks through opens doors to see whats inside the rooms before the hooded figure appears in front of him. He tries to make a run for it but the hooded figure keeps appearing every turn he makes but as he falls to the ground he wakes but up in his bed and realises it was all just a nightmare.



As he lays back down to fall asleep, the camera pans round to his computer. The screen begins to glitch and the messages begin to appear again. It cuts to a dull white screen with a hoodies figure and a caption reading 'Monsters don't sleep under your bed, they sleep inside your head! Or do they?'.

 

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