Rare Medium
2024 · 10m · USA
Directed by Emily Maya Mills
Tones: darkly comic, tense
A grieving man hires a psychic medium to contact his dead girlfriend, but their séance is hijacked by inter-dimensional cannibals.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Grief séance hijacked by inter-dimensional cannibals — solid premise, but 'Get Out meets Abbott and Costello' is a comparison that should make anyone nervous. Probably fine, probably forgettable.
Mills playing a séance as heist hijacked by inter-dimensional cannibals is the Get-Out-meets-Abbott-and-Costello tonal gambit that the genre has only recently learned to sustain, and at ten minutes the form is right. A confident comic-horror voice.
10:29 ALTER horror-comedy from Emily Maya Mills — staging an inter-dimensional possession as a heist movie is a tonal register that requires absolute pacing discipline. 94K views in 2 months.
Festivals
- Edmonton International Film Festival 2024