Killer
2016 · 8m · USA
Directed by Matt Kazman
Genres: coming-of-age, dark comedy, horror
Tones: absurdist, dark, darkly comic
When Dusty masturbates for the first time, something bad happens. A queasy little coming-of-age horror joke about discovering your body and immediately regretting it.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
One-line logline, all teeth. Premise that should be a sketch turns out to actually mean it.
Matt Kazman's first-masturbation-as-horror premise is the kind of body-comedy logline that signals either Cronenberg-lite or a sketch; the sparse credits don't tell me which.
A puberty rite-of-passage treated as a literal cursed event with consequences — coming-of-age horror joke premise that needs the runtime to be exactly 8 minutes and is.