What to Expect When You're Expecting

The scouts

Finally, a Catholic school pregnancy story that doesn't genuflect to sentiment—just lets the lies compound into absurdist nightmare fuel. This is the kind of premise everyone thinks they've seen before until a filmmaker actually treats it like dark comedy instead of PSA.

Haggenmiller inherits the lineage of provocative teen cinema (Ginger Snaps, Heathers) but the 4-minute constraint forces a formal restraint in editing and pacing that most contemporary coming-of-age shorts abandon for melodrama.

The architecture here lives in the escalation—each new lie stacked with a precise comedic beat that could collapse into mawkishness, but the sound design and cut timing refuse to let the audience settle into comfort or judgment.