Bronze
2025 · 7m · USA
Directed by Corey Benson Powers
A young woman relaxes alone in her sunny backyard with wine and a book. Spurred by a flirtatious text, she launches into an impromptu photo shoot — unaware that she has an audience.
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Everyone's waiting for the jump scare or the masked killer, and instead Powers just lets the sun stay warm while the dread pools underneath—that's the subversive move, but honestly it's almost too controlled, too aware of its own inversion to really blindside you.
The film inherits a clear lineage from the body-horror and domestic uncanny traditions, but the real sophistication is in how the editing paces the psychological rupture—each selfie frame becomes a formal statement about surveillance and complicity.
The entire film pivots on the decision to keep the camera *on* the woman, never cutting to the voyeur's perspective—that single withholding of the conventional horror grammar is what transforms a familiar premise into something genuinely unsettling and specific.
Festivals
- FOGFEST Horror Film Festival 2025