Who Killed Jennifer?
2025 · 8m · Brazil
Directed by Ludson Matsuda
Genres: horror, mystery, thriller
A man finds a weathered poster asking 'Who Killed Jennifer?' and follows its trail of clues — only to realize something is now following him.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
The poster-as-MacGuffin is a neat inversion, but the reversal—suddenly *you're* being hunted—is basically Zodiac-lite. Matsuda doesn't quite commit hard enough to the absurdity to make it sing; it wants to be weird but plays it too safe.
A competent exercise in mystery-thriller construction with clear debts to genre inheritance, though the pivot feels more procedural than formally inventive—the editing doesn't earn the shift in power dynamics the way a real precision-craftsman would.
That moment when the camera angle inverts or the sound design pivots—suddenly the *viewer* is implicated in the hunt—is the exact kind of single decision that reframes an eight-minute mystery from clever to genuinely unsettling, and Matsuda nails it.
Festivals
- Spooktacular Film Fest for Horror & Sci-Fi, Official Selection