A hitman's contract goes awry. One of six 2017 Regal Short Film Showdown finalists.
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Billy Bad
Red Bird
Michael Overture
Joe Evil
Liam, an 18-year-old grappling with unrequited love decides he is going to eat a slug to impress a girl. He is interrupted by Mandy, a masked middle-aged woman who emerges from a rattling old fridge. Mandy claims to be Liam's wife from the future, urgently pleading with him to avoid eating a slug he found in the garden. Mandy reveals that the slug harbors a deadly parasite that will paralyze Liam for 17 years, derailing his life and leading to their eventual meeting in a rehab center. Despite his initial disbelief and mockery, Liam's curiosity and fear gradually give way to a reluctant acceptance of her bizarre story. Mandy's desperate bid to save Liam from a tragic fate culminates in a heartfelt connection. Her mission, however, also carries a poignant consequence: ensuring Liam's safety means erasing the future where they fall in love.
Sandy is a drama school graduate and has asthma. Tonight she will be performing at the theatre. Before that, she has to teach a yoga class, work as a clown and go to an audition. In this equation, she somehow has to try and fit in Spiros, her boyfriend.
Sun Scream tells the comedic tale of a down-on-his-luck vampire named 'Pippin', and his last-ditch efforts to sell at least one bottle of sunscreen before facing the wrath of his ferocious boss 'Cy the Cyclops'. Luckily for Pippin, the truck of an extremely sunburned farmer breaks down in front of his stall on the hottest day of the year. However, 'Billy' ain't no bumblin' yokel, and Pippin will have to do everything in his power to prove his product will protect anyone, even a vampire, from the sun's deadly rays.
The night before the wedding day, Sobran broke the seclusion tradition and ran away with his close friends Asok and Ujang. Bad things happened that night which resulted in a major tragedy at Sobran's wedding the next day.
A quick trip to the restroom starts as an emergency session with Seniors, Elizabeth and Ava, over Zoe’s failing relationship and ends with a full on party in the newly named gender neutral bathroom. When an alert goes out that a teacher is coming, the Senior class has a mad rush to get the hell out.
A dissatisfied marriage, a secret crush, and workplace fantasies come to a head in a diner run by a mole with a hot ass.
“I’m guessing we are out somewhere right now, and you’ve said to me, ‘Go to your happy place.’ This is my happy place.” - Two friends experience a quaint relocation. While Jon enjoys the breeze, Bradley nags with questions.
A mysterious force is clearly at play, as two hopeless roommates attempt to discover what is happening to their home in the first episode of 'IKEA Heights: The Next Generation'.
When a pharmaceutical rep accidentally kills a mob boss with bad drugs, he’s thrown into the life of a hit man.
A double-length holiday cartoon plus a Christmas bonus.
Searching for the root of generational trauma, the director takes a camera into his estranged grandfather’s funeral.
A woman who’s a pathological liar wakes up one day to discover her lies have become true.
When the young Austrian couple oversleeps, the imminent arrival of the girl's parents creates a stress situation that turns into slapstick and chaos.
DIABLO is a 2021 short film about a masked stalker who hunts down his victims like prey and ends up driving them into a state of paranoia and insanity.
Desperate for help, a woman in recovery asks an unlikely stranger on a dinner date.
After her best friend dies, a woman sees visions of her friend appearing in the form of a portable toilet. She interacts with the toilet as if it is her deceased friend.
Alfie is the brother no one notices, and at his hot-shot brother Richard's wedding, Alfie's father insults him, his brother puts him down, he gets fired, and he falls off a second-story ledge to his death. He's in line to enter Heaven, when the Devil recruits him. The deal: go back to Earth, break all Ten Commandments in an hour, and get to join the big, eternal party in Hell. Alfie returns to the wedding, his list of Commandments in hand, and proceeds to have the time of his life. But what does the Devil have in store for him at hour's end? Is Satan trustworthy?
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