For Khrystal
2014 · 6m · USA
Directed by Andrew Peyton
Genres: comedy, experimental, romance
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, humorous
A Beetlejuice impersonator makes a VHS-taped love confession to a woman he briefly met after his show at Universal Studios — a single-take nervous monologue that is simultaneously tentative and unhinged.
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Beetlejuice impersonator. VHS confession tape. Universal Studios. One take. This man is in love and he is not taking the costume off.
A 5-minute single-take Beetlejuice impersonator VHS love confession — the director playing the character delivering a do-or-die monologue in full costume is the entire film, and that kind of committed lo-fi sincerity is hard to fake.
Five-minute single take of a director playing a Beetlejuice impersonator delivering a VHS love confession, with a Frankenstein roommate crashing the finale — the format, costume, and single-take constraint compound into something specific and small.