Today we're going to look at two shorts from director Robbie Dias:
The Moon, The Bat, The Monster-
A physics student's thesis project, a time machine, goes haywire summoning old Universal Monsters Dracula, Wolfman, and Frankenstein's Monster. The Monsters take down a small police station while hunting the student.
There's a lot to like with this one. The brevity works quite nicely for it, giving an immediacy to the events that unfold. From the mad dash to the cemetery to investigate the outcome of her experiment to meeting up with the monsters and then heading over to the police station where it all takes place, this one offers up some enjoyable action and old-school chills where the treatment of the monsters is concerned. Given that each of them gets a chance to shine in the limelight when dealing with the dismembering of the officers including the fantastic shot of the creature ripping a victim apart shown as a shadow in a pool of blood, this offers up quite a lot to like that only gets held back ever so slightly with the running time not allowing a lot of storyline elements to come through.
Butchered-
College student Ashley investigates the same forest her mom disappeared in a year ago rumors swirled around town that a cannibalistic family was responsible but they was no trace. Ashley, accompanied by her two friends, search the area for clues where the trio finds an abandoned warehouse deep in the woods where disfigured butcher Maggot-face awaits them.
This was a solid and enjoyable slasher throwback effort. The early scenes of the group heading through the woods and trying to find the fabled shelter where it all takes place offering up a solid start which is then picked up considerably with the arrival of the killer and the viciousness he attacks them. With a lot to like in how the brutality is matched not only with his treatment of the victims but also her final fight against him where she's able to get away. The twist in the actual finale takes a lot of the steam out of this one with her smart-aleck retorts taking away the supposed fear of what's happening while also being entirely cliched and not that original, but it's not enough to hold this one back from the fun found in the rest of the short.
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