Deceased Ones
2021 · 14m
Directed by Kate Hopkins
Genres: comedy, dark comedy, mystery
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, tense
Max and Fiona are hired to roleplay two dead teenagers — a strange gig that gets stranger when a morally questionable opportunity reveals itself.
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Playing dead teenagers for hire and then it gets WEIRDER. This is the most efficient premise-to-escalation ratio in the batch.
The premise — Max and Fiona hired to roleplay dead teenagers — is genuinely strange, but the synopsis is so terse I can't get a read on whether Hopkins delivers on the conceit or just sets it up. Cautiously interested.
Roleplay-as-the-dead is the premise, not the twist — but the page is awfully thin on what makes the morally questionable opportunity land. The setup intrigues me; I'd want more from the synopsis to commit harder.