Mousetrap
2024 · 20m · USA
Directed by Griffin Sauter
Genres: crime, drama, experimental
Two vagabond thieves travel across the continental United States posing as a 'critter-stomping' peep-show to con and rob sick, twisted sexual deviants — until a stranger they trust changes the trip's gravity.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Two grifters running a crush-fetish con across America on Super 8. Try, just try, to imagine the pitch meeting. Frankie Latina producing, by the way.
Two drifters robbing sexual deviants across the country — Griffin Sauter is reaching for Harmony Korine territory, which is treacherous ground but a real ambition.
A 'critter-stomping peep-show' grift used as a screen to rob fetishists, shot entirely on Super 8 with almost no dialogue — Gummo-lineage road-film with a genuinely original con at its center is the kind of swing I cannot resist.