Threesome! ...with Death!
2021 · 10m · USA
Directed by D.C. Kasundra
Genres: comedy, dark comedy, fantasy
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, humorous
A suicidal man's carefully staged exit stalls when Death arrives lovestruck and useless: a goth woman has dosed the Reaper with a love potion and he can no longer claim any soul. Stranded between a curse he didn't ask for and the end he came for, the man decides the only way out is to kill the woman and break the spell.
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The scouts
Death as a lovesick liability is the kind of cosmic inversion that makes you actually laugh out loud at the sheer audacity — a suicidal man forced to play reaper's hitman to restore order is exactly the premise everyone else would nervously pass on, which is precisely why it works.
The film's structural debt to absurdist comedy is clear, but it strains against its own formal constraints; the tonal pivots between genuine despair and slapstick feel more accidental than considered, leaving it caught between traditions rather than mastering either.
The casting of Death as pathetically enamored rather than omnipotent is the through-line that justifies everything — that single tonal choice reframes the entire suicide premise from tragedy into dark farce, and the film commits to it hard enough that it actually earns the laugh.