"Dark Rooms" - A Post-Apocalyptic Short Film
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.พ. 2025
- English subtitles available!
"Dark Rooms" is a post-apocalyptic love story shot in Manchester and the Peak District in the summer of 2019 (before the pandemic, haha).
Tom and Emily are survivors of a viral pandemic that swept the globe, gifted with immunity. They haven't encountered anyone else in a long, long time. Emily is struggling to find a reason to keep going. Tom isn't ready to give up just yet. Together, they set out on a journey into the city of Manchester, England, looking for supplies - and perhaps a hope for the future.
Produced by Tungsten Media.
Writer/Director: Christian Holtappel
Producer: Simon Sturgeon
Director of Photography: Andrew Beniston
Music: Kurt Tomlinson
Cast:
Corin Silva
Iona Champain
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You need to do more than survive, you need to live. Very well done. 👏
Very nicely done. Bitter sweet but hopeful.
I like it because (1) It's different (2) Scenery is filmed stunningly (3) Expletives are not the answer.
I found it inconceivable that they did not furnish some kind of weapon, until I realized it means that there really are no people.
Timing may be a bit off, there is no way the corpses could look like that after any explicable time-scale. But maybe there are enough movies with realistic corpses out there.
That would be wonderful. Peace and quiet.
Wow. Nicely done for a change. The absence of army surplus gas masks, perfect hair cuts and savage a-holes was a delightful change. Manchester's own Martin Zero named in the credits was a treat as well.
and strobe lights and clean clothes.
perhaps the most beautiful post-apocalyptic short I've ever seen. so different from others on the same theme, so poignant and emotionally engaging. the beauty and grandeur of the setting highlights the smallness of the 2 remaining human beings. the girl's expression is so painful...., but in the end, perhaps, only love will allow them a semblance of a life worthy of being called such
I loved it. Very in depth and gripping of how you two portrayed what life would be like after a plague of possibly Biblical proportions. The emptiness, the starting over. There would still be life out there, just on a smaller scale. I loved the scenery too, such beautiful place to live. Would like to see another, perhaps a part two. Peace from California
Great job....Peace
Love it, thanks. Amusing that at 5:50 camera pans by a place I used to work at in the early 2000s! Caught my eye...
This captures the emotional and psychological impact of an apocalypse
Very unique! No one dies, no one eats other people's brain, everything is actually very casual
14:56 i would sign for being in that situation. So sick of humanity
Not very optimistic BUT !!! The only one with no killing, no gas masks, no zombie, no open wound ,breathable air,water ,plenty of greenery.....well not many beans....
The beans survive everytime!!
Very nicely done!
homegirl really gonna lug around a Rolleiflex in the end of days, lol. that's dedication.
Love the music.
Really enjoyed this. Different type of take on a pandemic. OK, I could pick up on a few things. However, hindsight is a wonderful beast and I am by know means a film director. Well done. Don't you just love peaceful Sunday mornings for filming 🤔😎
I've seen some hundred post apocalyptic films believe me guys this is the best. I hope there will be another part coz it's so beautiful. Good luck from Morocco.
Well done
Community is important. Can also be dangerous.
Excellent work.
OH MY G**! They're not wearing gloves with the fingers cut off!
That lighter would have hot as you know what when he closed it and held it in his hand!
Thrive as well as survive
lovely
What is it with the birds sound-effects in every scene? Its like as if the editor has left the sound-effect track on throughout the whole editing of this film and decided this is how loud birds are. 😄
WATCH THE GRASS GROW
Oof sorry you're slow
Thank you
Great visuals, cinematography and production design, lacks a compelling goal that can deliver essential context and make it a compelling story. They achieve their goal with little effort needed. Had there of been a compelling goal with strong opposition I'd of organically learnt a lot more about the characters, why doing what they're doing means so much on a practical and emotional level. Shame, such a lovely looking film.
Um, strange that birds are still singing, ?
Good short, but what's up with the non-decomposed bodies of that mother and daughter? Uncanny Valley much?
Nice change.
🤗😍😘
Nice shortbut 2 bed bodies no stench as soon as you hit the door, Just a little less than believable
When you are reduced to showing a dead mother and her dead child to elicit some emotion in the audience, it means you really have nothing to say.
Look lady I'm sorry your baby obviously is dead , sorry about that. That being said you're way off base and you'll probably be waaaaay off for a while.
It was also a small scene. Get over yourself crazy
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We don’t need any more post apocalyptic films. That genre has been done to death. Do something original
Yeah, we need more trite superhero movies. When civilizations run out of ideas, they simply collapse. We have run out of out of ideas.
You are correct, @@tardisflanagan5536 . The collapse is called an apocalypse though. So back to square one, this may end up to be the only genre one day.
Sound is awful
plot? conflict? character development? action? I wasted 19 precious minutes of my life...
At bare minimum I spent at least 50,000 minutes of my life working on this so I wasted more 😃
@@shortfilmsbycholtappel Excellent work. Loved it.
Igor seems to have misunderstood what the very last scenes represented. 2 different time periods.
Thank you very much.
Well, maybe life would be boring after the apocalypse.
Not even a swarm of mosquitos they need swat at.
Before i watch this im gunna go ahead and guess its going to be a "woke" short
Thanks for sharing everything you can’t grasp or understand must be “woke”.
Can you define "woke" for me? It it in the room with us, now? I'll wait. Idiotic comment is idiotic.
@DrachenMeister666 you are butt hurt i can tell.
You know dam well what i ment
Not impressive
But nether are you…………
Just like that walking and walking,were is the dark rooms???wasting time to watch
Very nice work!!