Sugar Rag
2023 · 9m · USA
Directed by Jai Love
Genres: dark comedy, horror
Tones: dark, darkly comic, provocative
When his parents bring home a new baby brother, a disturbed young boy named Alfred decides the infant must be eliminated before he loses his parents' love.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Childhood sibling jealousy as genuine body horror with a deranged Easter Bunny — it commits fully to its transgressive premise and stars Samantha Robinson from The Love Witch, which tells you everything.
Sibling jealousy as full-bore horror with an Easter Bunny cameo — Crypt TV is exactly the right home for this register, and Adam Busch is a careful casting choice. The We-Need-to-Talk-About-Kevin comparison is generous for an 8-minute genre exercise but the impulse is the right one.
Crypt TV channel hosting a Babadook-via-Easter Bunny sibling jealousy horror — Adam Busch in the cast is a small but legit pull. Sounds like a clean horror exercise, not a transcendent one.
Festivals
- Sitges Film Festival 2023