Identical
2024 · 5m · USA
Directed by Kevin Cate
Three teenagers driving to a clandestine rave in the woods encounter a mysterious man and a young girl, and what begins as a standard teen thriller takes a sharp turn into uncanny horror when they uncover the secret at the center of the encounter.
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A film that exists explicitly to sell a feature but still lands as its own thing — the mercenary purpose doesn't defang the dread, which is either impressive or deeply cynical, and I want to know which.
A five-minute proof-of-concept that wears its pitch-document function openly — the meta-tension of watching a short engineered to sell a feature is real, but as a freestanding object it's thin.
A five-minute teen-thriller proof-of-concept that openly wears its pitch-document purpose — and that meta honesty is interesting, but five minutes barely lets a twist land let alone earn one. Worth a glance, hard to invest in.