Uncle Morris
2025 · 9m · USA
Directed by Victor Tadashi Suarez, Max Azulay
At a baby shower, Morris attempts a heartfelt toast for his brother but spirals into a confession of hit-and-run guilt, cultish East LA domestic rituals, and a tiny crown of destiny — a genre-bending monologue that veers from dark comedy into full-blown horror.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Single-monologue baby-shower toast spiraling from comedy to confession to horror on 16mm in one day — that's a formal swing that respects the audience's attention. Could be the year's best discovery if Azulay can hold a room.
Suarez and Azulay's single-baby-shower-toast-as-genre-shifting-monologue shot on 16mm in a day with six rolls is the kind of formal-constraint commitment I respect, in the Jim Cummings Thunder Road tradition. 37K Vimeo views suggest the gesture lands.
Single-day shoot on 16mm with only six rolls for 9:10 — that production constraint means every take had to count, and the comedy-into-horror monologue structure makes the limited stock dramatically appropriate. 37.2K views and 208 likes confirms the monologue holds.
Reviews
It's nearly impossible to predict the destination — just when it seems poised to devolve into a public display of one-upmanship, Morris' confession steers it into darker territory, before the short veers toward full-blown horror.
Like you're riding a crazy spiral inside someone's panic attack.