Ted Morris is attending his son's funeral while two criminals are breaking into his home trying to steal the notorious killer doll Genevieve, thinking it would be worth some money. However, these people have no idea what they're dealing with.
Overall, this was a pretty solid short. The central premise is intriguing enough to provide a rationale for their stupidity in entering the house while also allowing for some nice atmosphere with the scenes of the camera-man crawling through the darkened house. As the video-camera recording everything contains the only source of light in the scene, it adds a nice eeriness to the situation as the ethereal laughing and running footsteps in the distance. With a chilling-looking doll to cap off the suspense this aspect gets put to good use here.
The one downside here is that the brevity of the short means that there's very little in the way of actually explaining things. The only way we know the owner of the house is gone is through the pre-determined synopsis which also informs us of the intent behind the individual actually attempting the robbery. With nothing in the way of actual purpose for stealing the doll or how he learned of its existence, there's a decided lack of context for everything which makes what happens not that terrifying.
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