Clean Blood
2018 · 11m
Directed by Jordan Michael Blake
Genres: dark comedy, fantasy, horror
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, surreal
Elijah, a pregnant man, returns home for Christmas while the Apocalypse looms outside — and the family argument is about who gets credit for the potatoes. A blood-soaked holiday short mixing immaculate conception mythology with disarmingly mundane domestic tension.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Immaculately pregnant man, Apocalypse, potato credit dispute — the film KNOWS it is insane and proceeds with complete earnestness. Exactly my kind of chaos.
Jordan Michael Blake's blood-soaked Christmas movie about an immaculately pregnant man is the rare holiday short with actual theological ambition under the gore — closer to Bertrand Mandico than to a sketch.
A pregnant man's Christmas homecoming set against the literal Apocalypse where the central conflict is who 'made the potatoes' — that scale-mismatch is the whole comic engine, and blood-soaked Hallmark with religious symbolism is a fully committed register.