Intense, well written and well acted. I've seen many friends go through long stretches of IVF treatments, some to no avail and some to eventual success, but I know it can be a harrowing experience full of doubts and pain, and relationships can become strained and even ruined. This short film captures a woman's experience and, without didacticism, translates it into a metaphorical horror story. It's hard for me, both as a man and as a parent who didn't have to go the IVF route, to entirely understand what women and couples go through, but this defiinitely gave me a new level of empathy for women putting their bodies, lives, careers and psyches on the line to bring new life into the world.
I think the ending showed she made her peace with it and is trying to move forward while also giving space for the negative feelings to exist while hopefully working thru them. Perhaps we just learn to live with our monsters.
I love this. I love aunt shirl. If you dont fight for yourself, who will do it for you? Your mate? Not if you have wants&needs that are at odds . "We can afford it?" So leave him. He wa ts kids, you obviously dont(didnt). & no regrets. Find the one you love who wants the same things as you-5hen no regrets,no darkness-& you can fight what comes , together. - bb 💙🎶💙💫💫💫💫film. Really understood .
This was quality work. Brilliantly made and well executed. Bravo! I just subscribed and cannot believe you only have 3 subscribers???!!! Keep up the extraordinary work because the world needs to see your talent!
@@VictoriaYateley-np9ny I know right? We need to share his films. He has exceptional talent. It will be a shame for horror fans not to see and appreciate his brilliant work
This is excellent, all around. I have read other comments, which give me the impression my interpretation is probably out of left field, but I thought she was "adopting" the dark spirit of the aborted child, because she did not want to go through the ordeal of again trying to conceive and possibly miscarrying, also again.
i think its more so that the dark spirit is the idea of being a mother, it is haunting her because she is afraid of miscarrying again. Sure, she could adopt but the idea of being a mother is getting closer and closer as her body goes through its natural minute by minute processes. She's scared but knows that if theres even a small chance she will ultimately go down that path again.
Yes, I totally agree although we have a similar interpretation, I thought the aborted child had found a home with her sent by the guilt of the mother who gave her the picture.
The ending confused me. The other woman warned of the darkness and when it came for it, she let it in . . . yet at the end, wasn't she taking the hormone shots to try to get pregnant again? Was the darkness making her feel emotionally strong enough to try again? Very strange.
@@HarshiniK-mv9mm Bloody cloth with what looked like a coat hanger - with nowhere to turn, "I took care of it on my own", which is when the darkness crept in.
Great work! I loved the acting, cinematography and sound editing. The story is well written with great scene transitions. So much was packed into this short film, but enough to keep my mind wondering what’s next. A film this great needs to be feature 🙏🏽 As an actor, based in the DC metro area, I would love to work with talent and a production team of this caliber. Great work 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🎥🎬🎞️ -Cornelius Wyatt Jr
I think I missed something. The beginning (after the eight hour period) showed her running and confronting the beast right? But I didn’t see that reoccur. Still pretty good :)
I absolutely loved this! Beautiful, impactful work. Non-linear storytelling works exceptionally well here, and I couldn't get enough of the soundtrack too -- the score based on heartbeat is unique and really adds to the whole picture. Great acting as well! It facsinates me how in most of the horror movies I've seen recently, where women are protagonists, the horror is built around childbirth and parenting. Very representative of today's world. Hopefully, one day reproductive rights are more widely accepted worldwide, so this topic could retire as a horror subgenre.
Thank you so much for your kind words, and for understanding my intent. I too hope for the day where reproductive rights are more widely accepted and understood.
I loved the first 12 minutes and 45 seconds of this movie. And then ... we learn that hissing like a cat scares the demons away.🤨... Really? ... For one thing, it was a lost opportunity. Just think of how many ways the older woman could have been incorporated into the story as villain, accomplice, hero, red herring -- but instead her main role is exposition in a scene that turns the film on its head. For another -- and more importantly -- it threw cold water on what the film did so well up to that point -- high-risk suspense. We go from not knowing what or how powerful the big bad is to knowing, oh, it's shame personified -- and apparently it can be defeated with a barely audible hiss. Yes, yes, it's symbolism and represents years-long struggles and so on, and that's fine. ... But still, it feels like the film pivots from classic horror to mental wellness PSA in the blink of an eye. OK, all that said, the film is beautifully shot and edited, very well acted and is paced to near perfection by director Erin Lovett, who clearly has a flair for the genre. The script is outstanding, other than, you know ... And honestly, despite my disappointment in the final minutes, I did enjoy the film and would recommend it. My problems with it are largely subjective and plenty of people will feel differently about how it develops. One final nit: the eyes at the very end -- can you edit those out in future versions? They're literally the only cheesy looking thing in the film and take away from the subtle creepiness of the figure just looming in the background. But like I said, a nit. Overall, outstanding work. 4.2/5
Top quality writing , production, direction, acting, etc. The entity she saw com=nfused me though, since she only saw it through rose colored glass. Isn't it suposed to be the other way round? And it appearing on the painting? Puzzling, especially since she didn't know what that entity wanted from her. More questions than can be answered in a 16 minute film.. Even so, I would love to see similar atmospheric movies by this filmmaker in future!
Ive always wondered if there were ulterior motives for having strained glass in churches. Like keeping evil out or using the glass to see through the veil....
People that want to be parents, but can’t always break my heart a little. It’s hard to watch your friends or family have them by mistake and then mistreat or abuse them. Me? I lucked out! My wife doesn’t like the idea of having kids & I feel the same way. Life is not a gift, in my opinion, but a curse. And it’s cruel to rip someone from the peaceful void, to put them into this world, all because of a mistake or a vanity that compels them to make more of themselves. Fuck the highs of life, when the lows can be reached so easily.
Passing the guilt? Is the somber black hooded person the aborted child that has found a home? Very interesting film about a sorrowful subject for both women and men. Thank you for this, although I may have completely misinterpreted it.
If a woman doesn't want to have babies let her be. She's the one that has to carry that burden for nine months give or take. The ones wanting her to have babies ain't the ones with the nine months burden ❤
the shadow to me is not exacly the guilty or shame or whatever that come from the abortion, its the regret that she talked about in her conversation with ben. its regret that stalked shirl until she realises that she had nothing to regret, but in her case she did not want to abort (i guess?), the shadow persist with her even when tried again, so the regret doesnt come from the abortion but probly in the attempt to continue with something that makes her feel confuse and selfish, something that took her friend's job and her mother's ambitions(to me its clear why as soon as she saw the shadow at first she thinks ben is at home), the regret that she said it was somehow in her mother its now with her.
Avvolte o forse sempre. Quando dormo la sera , e verso tarda notte . Sento la presenza di questa massa . L'oscurità. È così poco chiara quanto tangibile. Poi ovviamente se attirò energia negativa. Essa si condensa di più. Tutto è in noi. Poiché noi siamo i mostri, noi siamo i cacciatori noi siamo le vittime. Tutto ciò . Soprattutto quando l'anima partorisce l'ego. E ciò succede sempre quando, noi esseri umani. Stiamo vivendo un certo determinato tempo di caus interiore e sofferenza acuta. L'unico modo per l'anima è di partorire a quel punto . Di partorire l'ego. Poiché esso ci porterà rancori e vittimismo. Tutto ciò richiama l'oscurità.
So it must've been that the child whom her aunt had been forced to kill either before or after giving birth to it, having had no choice for she had been very young when she got pregnant and had no one & nowhere to go to, & maybe she also suffered from postpartum depression, had turned into this beast who makes her presence known to her niece, and that this entity is actually her cousin,. And now, after having had so many failed pregnancies in the past, i think they finally found their 'baby', instead of having to adopt...
She didn’t abort a child, because children are already born people; she aborted a zygote, a fetus, a clump of cells that does not resemble a child or any other human.
I absolutely loved when the aunt hissed at her own darkness😂❤
Yeah, it was really silly.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
@chanja🤣🤣🤣🤣ckie2299
Intense, well written and well acted. I've seen many friends go through long stretches of IVF treatments, some to no avail and some to eventual success, but I know it can be a harrowing experience full of doubts and pain, and relationships can become strained and even ruined. This short film captures a woman's experience and, without didacticism, translates it into a metaphorical horror story. It's hard for me, both as a man and as a parent who didn't have to go the IVF route, to entirely understand what women and couples go through, but this defiinitely gave me a new level of empathy for women putting their bodies, lives, careers and psyches on the line to bring new life into the world.
The dreaded shadow is the female biological clock.
@@hothatch1520:: amongst it representing MANY other things described in the info.
I think the ending showed she made her peace with it and is trying to move forward while also giving space for the negative feelings to exist while hopefully working thru them. Perhaps we just learn to live with our monsters.
The acting is pretty damn incredible! So much conveyed in such a short time
The lady very much reminds me of Juliette Lewis at times.
the actress kind of reminds me of juliett Lewis
She looks and sounds WAY like Juliette Lewis.
Me too! Very, very similar.
Ed lei è un'ottima atrice
oh god! Same thing I thought during the whole thing
She's beautiful. And I like the cabin she has or lives in.
With a nod to M.R. James’ “The Mezzotint”. Terrific cinematography and acting.
I love this. I love aunt shirl. If you dont fight for yourself, who will do it for you? Your mate? Not if you have wants&needs that are at odds . "We can afford it?" So leave him. He wa ts kids, you obviously dont(didnt). & no regrets. Find the one you love who wants the same things as you-5hen no regrets,no darkness-& you can fight what comes , together. - bb 💙🎶💙💫💫💫💫film. Really understood .
This was quality work. Brilliantly made and well executed. Bravo!
I just subscribed and cannot believe you only have 3 subscribers???!!! Keep up the extraordinary work because the world needs to see your talent!
What??? Thats crazy
@@VictoriaYateley-np9ny I know right? We need to share his films. He has exceptional talent. It will be a shame for horror fans not to see and appreciate his brilliant work
This is excellent, all around. I have read other comments, which give me the impression my interpretation is probably out of left field, but I thought she was "adopting" the dark spirit of the aborted child, because she did not want to go through the ordeal of again trying to conceive and possibly miscarrying, also again.
i think its more so that the dark spirit is the idea of being a mother, it is haunting her because she is afraid of miscarrying again. Sure, she could adopt but the idea of being a mother is getting closer and closer as her body goes through its natural minute by minute processes. She's scared but knows that if theres even a small chance she will ultimately go down that path again.
@@AB-sb4nlor its the menopause/paint of no return lol
Yes, I totally agree although we have a similar interpretation, I thought the aborted child had found a home with her sent by the guilt of the mother who gave her the picture.
Dealing with miscarriages and watching this was a bit of a trigger. Good acting and the filing and production were great as well. Good video overall ❤
Sorry to hear about the Misscarriage
I hope everything works out for you
By the way you're an absolute Beauty 💯
Sorry to hear that 😔 and i wish you all the best in your life 🧬❤️🧬❤️ Nikola from Serbia.
And if I may to add,yr just beautiful like the main actress of the movie 🎥
Imagine being that fragile that you need a trigger warning for the basic facts of life. Grow a backbone
Bravo on all counts! Story, Acting, Photography, Sound, EDITING, sincerely engaging storytelling. Bravo and thanks for sharing.
Brilliant! Fantastic sound work. Dark & creepy.
Wow, this is a brilliant work of art and creepy as all get out. Bravo!!
The ending confused me. The other woman warned of the darkness and when it came for it, she let it in . . . yet at the end, wasn't she taking the hormone shots to try to get pregnant again? Was the darkness making her feel emotionally strong enough to try again? Very strange.
Why did they show a handkerchief covered in blood in the old lady's car?
@@HarshiniK-mv9mmshe gave herself an abortion when she was 19
@@HarshiniK-mv9mm Bloody cloth with what looked like a coat hanger - with nowhere to turn, "I took care of it on my own", which is when the darkness crept in.
@@HarshiniK-mv9mm note the coathanger also present
The dreaded shadow is time and the female biological clock. Children are a blessing not a curse.
Great work! I loved the acting, cinematography and sound editing. The story is well written with great scene transitions. So much was packed into this short film, but enough to keep my mind wondering what’s next. A film this great needs to be feature 🙏🏽 As an actor, based in the DC metro area, I would love to work with talent and a production team of this caliber. Great work 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🎥🎬🎞️
-Cornelius Wyatt Jr
I think I missed something. The beginning (after the eight hour period) showed her running and confronting the beast right? But I didn’t see that reoccur. Still pretty good :)
Between 8:49 - 8:55 is where you can re-hear the bell ringing from the beginning scene.
I absolutely loved this! Beautiful, impactful work. Non-linear storytelling works exceptionally well here, and I couldn't get enough of the soundtrack too -- the score based on heartbeat is unique and really adds to the whole picture. Great acting as well!
It facsinates me how in most of the horror movies I've seen recently, where women are protagonists, the horror is built around childbirth and parenting. Very representative of today's world. Hopefully, one day reproductive rights are more widely accepted worldwide, so this topic could retire as a horror subgenre.
Thank you so much for your kind words, and for understanding my intent. I too hope for the day where reproductive rights are more widely accepted and understood.
Abortion is not reproductive rights... Abortion is the right to murder.
Nicely done! Can't wait to see more from you in the future!
Brilliant work here, I'm subscriber 203. You deserve s9 many more.
Okay, if any of your future projects are on par with (or exceed) this one...wow.
I loved the first 12 minutes and 45 seconds of this movie.
And then ... we learn that hissing like a cat scares the demons away.🤨... Really? ...
For one thing, it was a lost opportunity. Just think of how many ways the older woman could have been incorporated into the story as villain, accomplice, hero, red herring -- but instead her main role is exposition in a scene that turns the film on its head. For another -- and more importantly -- it threw cold water on what the film did so well up to that point -- high-risk suspense.
We go from not knowing what or how powerful the big bad is to knowing, oh, it's shame personified -- and apparently it can be defeated with a barely audible hiss. Yes, yes, it's symbolism and represents years-long struggles and so on, and that's fine. ... But still, it feels like the film pivots from classic horror to mental wellness PSA in the blink of an eye.
OK, all that said, the film is beautifully shot and edited, very well acted and is paced to near perfection by director Erin Lovett, who clearly has a flair for the genre. The script is outstanding, other than, you know ... And honestly, despite my disappointment in the final minutes, I did enjoy the film and would recommend it. My problems with it are largely subjective and plenty of people will feel differently about how it develops.
One final nit: the eyes at the very end -- can you edit those out in future versions? They're literally the only cheesy looking thing in the film and take away from the subtle creepiness of the figure just looming in the background. But like I said, a nit. Overall, outstanding work. 4.2/5
Hahahaha, yes that was the one scene where it became real funny & ridiculous when the aunt hissed at the entity LMAO
Those eyes too at d ending, they should've been done away with...
This is… absolutely relevant for today’s political climate.. well, that climate has been around for a long time. Well done!
Nicely done. Thanks!
Good grief this was a kick in the guts. This is horror at its finest.
This is creepy, and i almost always find the woods an unsettling & scary setting for a horror film.
Don’t worry about the woods, worry about whats in woods.
Top quality writing , production, direction, acting, etc. The entity she saw com=nfused me though, since she only saw it through rose colored glass. Isn't it suposed to be the other way round? And it appearing on the painting? Puzzling, especially since she didn't know what that entity wanted from her. More questions than can be answered in a 16 minute film..
Even so, I would love to see similar atmospheric movies by this filmmaker in future!
I didn’t see the glass as “rose” colored, but more like “blood”colored. Very interesting.
The dreaded shadow is the female biological clock.
A nicely creepy, subtle way of portraying the stigma between Pro Choice and Pro Life.
That was fascinating.
Ive always wondered if there were ulterior motives for having strained glass in churches. Like keeping evil out or using the glass to see through the veil....
Hello darkness my old friend. Well done.
Okay this got me. I actually screamed and jumped at one part. I wish there was more.
People that want to be parents, but can’t always break my heart a little. It’s hard to watch your friends or family have them by mistake and then mistreat or abuse them.
Me? I lucked out! My wife doesn’t like the idea of having kids & I feel the same way. Life is not a gift, in my opinion, but a curse. And it’s cruel to rip someone from the peaceful void, to put them into this world, all because of a mistake or a vanity that compels them to make more of themselves. Fuck the highs of life, when the lows can be reached so easily.
Vero anche questo
Idk, I like living
@@KuwagumoI like living too- without kids.
I like the acting in this movie. Hi From Serbia.
This was so good, holy shit.
Passing the guilt? Is the somber black hooded person the aborted child that has found a home? Very interesting film about a sorrowful subject for both women and men. Thank you for this, although I may have completely misinterpreted it.
You're quite right with your observation
Very well done. Looking forward to more.
Brilliant work
If a woman doesn't want to have babies let her be. She's the one that has to carry that burden for nine months give or take. The ones wanting her to have babies ain't the ones with the nine months burden ❤
Exactly
If only religious fundamentalists thought this way.
Maybe she should keep her legs closed then and use her mouth and swallow those babies.
It is not a burden!!
The depends if a woman held the child in the first heart beat them she loves the child if before the heartbeat no p
the shadow to me is not exacly the guilty or shame or whatever that come from the abortion, its the regret that she talked about in her conversation with ben. its regret that stalked shirl until she realises that she had nothing to regret, but in her case she did not want to abort (i guess?), the shadow persist with her even when tried again, so the regret doesnt come from the abortion but probly in the attempt to continue with something that makes her feel confuse and selfish, something that took her friend's job and her mother's ambitions(to me its clear why as soon as she saw the shadow at first she thinks ben is at home), the regret that she said it was somehow in her mother its now with her.
Brilliant acting.
Great movie!
❤ Excellent!
Sick!!
the use of subsonic frequency audio is genius. did i feel a 10 hz vibration in this?
Most definitely 👹
Dang, been a hot minute since i thought about this. Nice catch.
Well done!
Very well acted, but very strange. I don't understand what the point is?
I don’t get it.
Go into the 'more' and find a brief overview of this short film.
Go into the 'more section' there is a brief description on the storyline.
@peterharris9022 good movies don't have to tell you the point in a description. This sucked.
Drama masquerading as horror. Happens all the time now. The ol Bait and Switch.
Anna Wood reminds me of a young Charlotte Rampling
Greeeeeeeeeeaat
Well done 🎉
oh this movieee
Why are american films always full of kids
Yes on Prop 139 in Arizona ✨️
AMAZING ON EVERY LEVEL
Is this not the same cabin used in Secret Window ??
No
No, that one was at a lake.
Subtitulos en español por.favor
Avvolte o forse sempre. Quando dormo la sera , e verso tarda notte . Sento la presenza di questa massa . L'oscurità. È così poco chiara quanto tangibile. Poi ovviamente se attirò energia negativa. Essa si condensa di più. Tutto è in noi. Poiché noi siamo i mostri, noi siamo i cacciatori noi siamo le vittime. Tutto ciò . Soprattutto quando l'anima partorisce l'ego. E ciò succede sempre quando, noi esseri umani. Stiamo vivendo un certo determinato tempo di caus interiore e sofferenza acuta. L'unico modo per l'anima è di partorire a quel punto . Di partorire l'ego. Poiché esso ci porterà rancori e vittimismo. Tutto ciò richiama l'oscurità.
Bravo 👏
6:22 this scene reminds me of
MR James' „The Mezzotint” 🤔
Inner demons I'm guessing. face them.
👹👹👹
Nice 👍
It quite getting it.
So it must've been that the child whom her aunt had been forced to kill either before or after giving birth to it, having had no choice for she had been very young when she got pregnant and had no one & nowhere to go to, & maybe she also suffered from postpartum depression, had turned into this beast who makes her presence known to her niece, and that this entity is actually her cousin,.
And now, after having had so many failed pregnancies in the past, i think they finally found their 'baby', instead of having to adopt...
She didn’t abort a child, because children are already born people; she aborted a zygote, a fetus, a clump of cells that does not resemble a child or any other human.
@SummalogicaeIt's also. It was still her child
13:19 creepy af!
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Maybe the real darkness was the patriarchy we established along the way. :P
Great story. I agree with some comments re: a women's right to decide on whether to have a baby or not. And if the man doesn't want the baby?
Children are to be brought into this world by a standard, married, m/f couple. The alternative has really messed this place up the past 40 years.
Another reason for men not to risk being a parent with a woman...
@Gee-gz7ob absolutely. Thank you for your comment.
Audio is ridiculous in this 4/10 for the whole movie .
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👻BO
Excellent work.