Curve | Disturbing Horror Short Film
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 มิ.ย. 2021
- Clinging to a curved surface high above a sentient abyss, a girl has to cover the few feet back to safety before she loses grip.
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CURVE
Written and Directed by Tim Egan
"Winner of ‘Best Short’ awards at both Fantastic Fest and Sitges in 2016, Tim Egan’s 10-min Horror Curve is a dark, minimalist, and truly unsettling film. Simple in premise, but immeasurable in impact, prepare yourself for what is set to be one of the most tense and unforgettable shorts you’ll witness in 2017.
Reminiscent of one of my favourite long-shorts (if an almost 50-minute film can really be classified as a short?), Shinya Tsukamoto Haze, Curve is at its most powerful when putting you inside the headspace of its doomed protagonist. An uncompromising, physical watch, Egan’s film sends shivers down your spine as you imagine your own fingernails desperately clawing to that unforgiving concrete, in hope of getting any kind of traction. It’s really hard not to watch Curve without setting your mind racing about what you’d attempt in that situation - however horrifying and hopeless it might be!
Taking just 8 hours to write, from first concept to shooting script, Curve was inspired by two key moments in the director’s life - the first being hit by a car and the second a conversation with a depressed friend.
“I still remember the feeling of wet tarmac under my fingers” Egan recalls when describing his lucky escape after being knocked into the centre lane of busy traffic, where he gripped the asphalt preparing to be struck by a second car in a matter of seconds. Whilst this first experience was an undeniable physical one for the writer/director, the second influencing experience was a much more mental one.
Describing a conversation he had with a friend struggling with grief, where she explained that “the only good moments of her day being the seconds after she woke up”, Egan obviously had some more symbolic intentions coursing under the surface of his thoughts when writing Curve. “Her mind was clear and at peace for a few seconds before she remembered her pain”, he recalls. “Then grief rushed in, a feeling not unlike vertigo. She said the earth opened up beneath her and the rest of her day was simply about holding on by sheer force of tension”.
Despite knowing this particular influence on Egan’s script, Curve feels like a film better left unscrutinised. Yes we could talk about all the metaphors (or is it allegory?) in the scenario of a bloody woman clinging to the precipice of life. But Egan’s is a short best enjoyed without all this bullshit. A film best enjoyed in the moment, a film best enjoyed for its raw, uncompromising approach - however uncomfortable that may be." - S/W Curator Rob Munday
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CREDITS
DIRECTOR Tim Egan
SCREENWRITER Tim Egan
PRODUCER Ahren Morris
EDITOR Tim Egan
CINEMATOGRAPHER Tim Egan
CAST Laura Jane Turner
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Damn
Wow this is something else 😯
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What happen to the girl
How did she get there in the first place?! Janice
You can just tell this was born out of a very lucid nightmare someone had
True
I naturally experience lucid dream. It can be hella terrifying
@@AnUpo17tell?
@@Sloths4life25 tell what?
The lucid dream it's ok if no
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Makes you feel grateful that you're safely laying on your bed at home
Iam sitting on my couch I wish I was there I would let my self fall maybe something good happens downstairs
@@alexpowers5117 don't do it bro. Call suicide prevention hotline 🥹
@@ArhunBeyik let go of your earthly tether, enter the void. Empty, and become wind. Empty, and become wind.
@@Shazoo1997 bro what
@@Shazoo1997 you do realize thats jail time right? Trying to convince someone to kill themselves?
Actually I'm impressed how well the protagonist handles the situation. Staying that focused and kinda calm is not how people are usually displayed in horror movies. Perhaps it shows that even a tough person can't escape eventually. That makes it more horrific tbh.
Agreed, it's rare to see, also love your pfp/username haha
Ok, I didn't know that one sees the name behind the @. I thought just the account name is visible, not my actual name 😂 To be fair I don't know what the ocean waves in the video have to do with the content. Yeah there are the more obvious questions like "how the hell did the protagonist get there?", but seriously, what about the water??
Yeah, most horror films have stupid main characters and it makes us feel like we could do so much better if we were in the movie. But with this one she maintained composure and as the audience we knew she was smart but she still failed
she was not calm
Same, and she actually tried to use her brain to find a way to escape
Hearing other people fall and hit the bottom adds so much to the feeling of helplessness.
Yep
I didn’t hear it
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@@TRAZ-24 There are multiple times you hear someone scream in the background and then **THUMP** when they hit.
@@Simph0nyomg this changes everything I don’t hear it the first time I watched it. They keep screaming one after another.
these converse commercials are getting crazy
Lol
bro this would suck as a converse commercial 😭 if she actually got a grip with them it’d be good 😂
This is a Vans commercial lmao showing how shitty Converse are 😭 (I love Converse)
@@daniellegiusti1780 idk why but this the funniest sht I’ve seen in a MINUTE 😭😭😭
Converse are good but they slip hella 💀
Afraid of heights, afraid of darkness, afraid of being alone, not knowing where you are, this is a nightmare. I loved the film.
Add fear of being not alone... to this list
Super!
shi was trash gang
What you fear is what kills you. Don't focus on em, fight em
The fear of a situation where escape may be difficult.
I think the fact that so many people relate to this for so many different reasons, and can draw paralells to many real life stuggles makes this piece timeless. Everyone can see something different here, and no one is wrong.
So what is the context of the film
I think people are thinking too hard.
@@valdie91285 or maybe you can't understand metaphors and art. Or maybe you've lived a privileged enough life to have never felt this deep impending fear that the world is about to swallow you whole.
@@zaidankreshnandi255the fear of the unknown. Or maybe just fear in general. It can easily be seen in many different lights considering ppl struggle with all sorts of different things.
@@Chris-ew7pb haha, yeah I'm sure that's it....
This feels like such a perfect metaphor for when you're stuck on a slippery surface and unable to climb out without risking falling off the edge. It really embodies how gravity could kill us and how scary heights are.
🌳📌🔨
Lol
The only correct interpretation!
so funny
so true bestie
There's something about smooth surfaces that is unsettling. No grip. No escape.
@Blank Space you're a legend 👑
@Blank Space king kings or queens 👑
It’s also a form of torture
I’ve had nightmares of being in her situation gripping for my life holding on to anything I could only to lose and fall into a void the void is truly my biggest fear and is my reason I am scared of the dark
@@khamjaninja. if you only know
Her left leg, folded so uncomfortably, must have experienced an intense moment of relief as she fell
I was terrifyed by the film but now after I read your comment life is good
Her leg definitely fell asleep and ik that was painful
We don't know if she fell.
@@mishi144 Es obvio, nos mostraron que otros ya se cayeron, ese era su destino.
@@mishi144Then she HOVERED her way to safety?
Never pissing off a wizard again dawg
O' great swamp wizard put her there.
Lol
Me laughing with my bros about the wizards goofy beard as until I hear him chant "Swerve curve dam of death spell" ☹
“This woman is already dead, she just doesn’t know it yet🎅🎅🎅🐡🐡🐡”
**Insert Barracks Settlement theme here**
I actually did come here from sterling lol
Brought me here as well
@@LoafOfTurtleme to
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The most terrifying thing about this, is not that you might fall/slide down, but the fact that you know, you can't get out!!!
Good shoes and you can go around.
Yeah true
Right
The most terrifying thing about this is not that you might fall/ slide down, but the fact that you know you can’t out
@@bsobocan yeah, we talking about shoe, I hope some anti slip shoe brand take this opportunity to make advertising like this 😂 the good shoe is the key to survive LMAO
The atmosphere, the character noise louder than everything else, no jumpscares, realistic instinct, and silence. All perfect horror
The scariest part was at 7:06 when you could hear someone in the distance slipping, and shortly after you hear them yell and then a bang noise... I'm assuming you know what that came from
Name of movie???
@@smqueen8788 "Curve"
@@smqueen8788 it's literally the title
Yep, raw and realsh*t
I took this as just a metaphor for our mortality. You’re gonna fall into oblivion eventually, no matter how much you claw and struggle to delay it awhile longer, and you sure as hell can’t climb back up the curve.
Great film. I’ve always thought the best horror is the bleak kind!
Immortality through jesus
No but what if im spiderman and i just climb out
I agree.
Inevitability, knowing nothing one can do to change the outcome, is extremely bleak. Always a sincerely solid base for great horror.
Exactly I got it same way
Most horror videos/movies involve a character as the horror, but this describes a true horror we could never imagine, a non living surface of curved stone. And one wrong nudge and your dead, truly interesting and terrifying.
The Curve does exactly what horror movies/shorts are supposed to do. It doesn’t just throw cheap jump scares at you and scare you momentarily, instead it creates a terrifying atmosphere and makes you feel the horror and fear inside you with the characters. Truly a great short.
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i saw this comment on jack's video lmao
@@gaywifey3367 yeah haha I was like wait-
This short was terrible. People need to stop excusing short films flaws because they have a limited budget and can't afford anything.
i swear i've seen this exact sentence many times
Every time she slips, you just feel the jump in your bones. What a great way to throw in "jumpscares" without actually having something jump in front of you.
yes!! 😍
Slip scare
Then it’s not a jump scare then is it….
@@JPL1KETHESAUCE it's a... scare
yesss!!
Whos here from yo boy Sterling???
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I love this! My interpretation of this is that she was either depressed or fighting addiction. Once the rain washed her hand clean. She had another chance to save herself. So she took the noose from around her neck and used it as traction to pull herself out of her situation.
Obviously I'd be depressed too if I was stuck on a ledge about to die. Who wouldn't be?
Sadly I don’t think that is what happened.during the credits you can hear a faint boom, which I believe is her hitting the bottom of the hole or whatever it is. The ground.
@@HaydenBoazzo I relistened and all I could hear was thunder. But I agree, I don’t believe she got out
I just realised she was "hanging on by a thread", or more literally by a leg
I 🤔 thought she fell
this feels like one of those nightmares where you just struggle to actually wake up from and be done with it but it still feels real. absolutely terrifying cause you know she just didn't even have a chance of surviving.
She did, but she had to act fast before it started raining
Exactly!
@@darkjakultimate6605 what else could she have done though?
@@darkjakultimate6605 The wall behind her was straight and flat, even if she could avoid slipping to her death, she would have no way of climbing it to safety.
@@epapa217taking the shoes off would help climb back up.
I think that another part of this metaphor is the fact that she could theoretically get out, if someone from outside could help her with a rope or something similar, like how someone suffering from depression or addiction needs outside intervention.
Right. Like when it feels hopeless. Like nothing will ever save you except a hand from God. Sadly for most help comes too late if at all.
Also how the harder she tries to climb out she falls father and farther. You can see her slowly losing hope throughout the video
I've dealt with people that suffers from depression, you can't help them. They need to help themselves.
@@Kkarl224 I have depression and I strongly disagree. Do I have to put in work myself? Of course. But without the help of my family, friends, GP and mental health professionals I would be dead.
@@stephenmarriott369 maybe you weren't depressed.
IDKsterling brought me here, it’s pretty disturbing, would recommend it to be scared
Same
Same
Yeah same
Same
Thank you, IdkSterling, for sending me to this and fueling my nightmares
Literally was looking for this comment
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Take your shoes off, you need more grip. Wet your jacket with your blood and put it over your hands and use the grip to turn around. Then it’s easy as standing straight up and doing a backflip straight down into the void.
I mean...if you know you're gonna die, at least die in style amirite?
Read this word by word, didn't go the way I expected. Bravo :D
They had us in the first half, not gonna lie
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣😂
You gotta point 💀💀💀
As a person who is scared of heights, this is absolutely terrifying.
Who wouldn't find this terrifying, scared of heights or not?
But also claustrophobic 😩😩😩
I’m not afraid of heights but absolutely hate the feeling of falling. This would be a nightmare, literally, I have so many nightmares about falling
Me too
For real like my anxiety going crazy
the part where she sees the blood prints of other people sent a chill down my spine
I have been here. I fell while rock climbing 2 years ago. I was out there alone and it took me 12 hours to crawl off a cliff after I fell and shattered my right knee and left ankle. This short captures what I felt. The most terrifying part of my ordeal was when I was clinging to a rock face and I knew I was going to fall. There was absolutely nothing I could do and I knew it was going to be bad. What followed was the hardest 12 hours of my life. I video taped my trip off the cliff for my young daughter in case I didn't make it home. So she would know I didn't lay down and die. I fought for my life. I still can't watch the video messages I made and thinking about what happened brings me to tears.
I can't believe you guys captured what I lived, ripping the scab off my memory of that day on that mountain in the Dolores river valley, Colorado. I bet you guys never realized somebody has actually lived what you have shown and let me tell you something. Fear is not a strong enough word for what it feels like to be up there waiting to fall.
As a matter of fact I think I will share this short with my friends so they will have a feel for what I went through. You have shown what I could never put into words.
Peace.
Wow, that is a very inspiring story man
Cost u post it on here?
Can you post it?
Glad your OK dude
If you can share your experiences ?
Many have mentioned how well this film works as a metaphor for depression or addiction, but I think it also works as a metaphor for trying to escape poverty with no safety net. Where it's a struggle just to maintain your place, climbing out feels impossible, and one wrong move can send you sliding down toward the terrifying abyss of homelessness.
True
Currently been in this situation, underpaid 9 to 5 job sucks 😞😔
Have yall ever thought that there's no message to it that he just wanted to make something scary?
@@codygrimes6157This is one of those pieces where there can be metaphors or none at all; ever heard of media literacy?
@@BeInsNowshut up
This feels like a form of mythological Roman/greek torture you’d find in Tartarus
Whos here from idksterling?
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Can we all just appreciate her acting for a minute? My god she has some fucking talent, she did it perfectly!
What if she’s not acting
Nani
YES!
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This acting is seriously perfect
This feels like it could be a metaphor for a person struggling with addiction each and every moment they’re on the edge of relapsing potentially watching their peers relapse as well. I feel this struggle is depicted very well here.
I actually thought of those other bloody prints as the same person's, to represent their own mental state and stage of addiction.
She's tried to claw her way out before, and each time she's fallen back in (relapsed). The curved wall represents the fragile state of someone in recovery, as they have to work even harder to get through it.
True. Like being a bug that landed on the inside of a pitcher plant.
I thought it was a representation of a life and our inevitable deaths.
Pretty sure I'm depressed.
That is exactly how I feel as I struggle through early recovery.
@@apriladelewhyte Nah it just shows how bafflingly scary smooth surface can be. Even the name CURVE, I am pretty sure nobody ever thought how curves can be scary. Most of us automatically think about women curves 😂😂😂😂 That's what the message here is and why it's captivating. Nobody ever thought of this. Sure we see briefly scenes of struggling to grab onto something but normally there's always something to grab. Not here though.......
that situation is terrifying in itself but knowing that the rain will inevitably wash away the blood/only sign that you even existed there is insane
It will always bother me that she never even tried yelling for help.
She’ll waste slight energy
There is so much "unknown" in this short film, and that's what makes it terrifying. Not knowing where she is, why she's there, how she got there, if she's even awake to begin with, and most importantly whats at the bottom of that abyss if there even is a bottom.
We know there’s a bottom, we hear a body hit it.
honestly it would make me feel better that the hole is so dark, because if i fall i’d most likely die on impact instead of just being mangled
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@@343Paladin i dont.
This is legitimately what nightmares are made of. The acting. The spine-chilling premise. Not knowing how she got there. Knowing she'd never escape. Everything was spot on. What a brilliant horror masterpiece
Cmon dude, there's nothing masterful about it. Somebody had less than 20 minutes to write a film with no discernable location, literally no storyline, and no way to end on a better note. It did not take brilliance.
@@dongiano umm act it DOSE and it ISH a master film bc wat chu dunt get or relize ish tat the film in of itself potrays the emtion of depwesstion and the knowing of chu know chu CANT escape chur fate nu matter how hard chu twy 2 😥
@@shadowdragonx07 oK I gawt chu
Yeah I can understand why you think that, but *I* think it's nonsense and crazy uncreative.
@@dongiano lmao I’m seeing you in almost every one of these top comment threads being a hater
@@q19q19q19q19 he's trying to seem "different" and trying to say he's intellectually superior than everyone here by critiquing what the majority finds amusing
The best part about short films is that I didn’t waste an hour and a half of my life for a feature length version where nothing happens and it predictably rains and she falls without any epilogue.
At 7:10 it proves that she’s not the only one there you can hear a really loud scream and thud so that means there are other people put in that situation and you don’t know how many are actually trapped in there might even be over 1000 because another scream and this is heard at 7:50
for me the most brilliant - or perhaps terrifying - part of this is that, just when she’s getting some hope, just when she’s got her bearings, she notices the blood across from her. someone else has been in her exact situation, and they fell. absolutely harrowing.
Her seeing the other bloody handprints was telling. I noticed that when she moved, more and more prints appeared. I thought maybe there were people falling in that she couldn't see possibly? We could hear their screams and when they hit the bottom. hmmm?
I think it was supposed to be her realizing that no matter how she tried to move, she would inevitably die. Either by falling or of thirst/hunger from being trapped on that ledge. The handprints showed up the more she tried to move and eventually showed that she was going to die.
I looked as if the more prints she made on her side, it mirrored to the other side. I originally thought someone else was in her position at some time before but as they kept showing the other side it got more bloody.
No, i think u didn't understand, for me, the curve in front of her is something like a mirror, more she move, more there was blood prints
It changes though so probably a abstract thing
I literally got sweaty palms watching this. I could feel everything about this in my bones. The dry stone, the sudden slipping of the feet, her desperate willingness to live, and finally fate and the realization that your very best simply won't be enough. Masterpiece.
yes me too
i dont get the ending though
@@the-w-omen9179 she fell
@@jaseybailey8321 just an assumption
@@oz9034 yes
I think this film represents the struggle of a person through loneliness. The grey walls are so relatable. There ar times when you feel confined in a box of grey walls, getting ever smaller and you're falling ever lower and there seems to be no end of this torment. Everytime you try to get out, you slide deeper in and every hope seems false. But you can't give up hope and you keep trying. The bloody marks show all the times you tried your best to change the situation but you never got out of the well. It is a representation of loneliness, anxiety and depression. It's brilliant.
This film represents a concrete slope.
This movie is a metaphor about gravity and how heights are dangerous. There was no point in the entire movie where loneliness is even remotely mentioned.
I would just evolve into a spider tbh
Saaaaame
So true. This is such a skill issue
I’ve rescued a lot of spiders from my bathtub because they couldn’t scale the smooth porcelain.
It's up there along the scariest shorts i've watched. We really don't need monsters to be scared shitless.
Absofuckinglutely!
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What ones do you recommend?
@@pejapl13 u may search for SHI, THE SCARED ONE, VISCIOUS, THE INTRUDER, IN EXTREMIS, MAMA, FATHER, WILD, FEWDIO.. if you're really into scary short films you'll enjoy all of these.
No gore, no serial killer, no jump scares and still one of the best horror short fills I've ever seen.
You can't be serious lol
@@dongiano Fr, what's horror without some jump scares?
No actual ending...?
@@1vada1 I mean, I don't feel like jump scares make a horror movie scary, but still. This film is so random and pointless, even good jump scares couldn't have saved it. I think a lot of these short film creators use a sort of *you create the horror in your mind* method, as an excuse for a total lack of creativity.
@@1vada1 horror ain’t about jumpscare. It’s about making the audience feel uncomfortable and disturbed
i can’t tell if the leg that’s tucked under her is broken or not because why wasn’t her first thought to pull it out
Exact same thing happened to me in a dream and its terrifying as heck, Only difference was that people were passing by me not bothering to help, A nightmare i still remember after 7 years, Not even the word terrifying can describe how scary it was.
I couldn’t imagine how hopeless you must feel when you see the first raindrop on your hand and the distant thunder crack. Masterfully made, full of suspense and overall great short film. The final, empty shot left me haunted.
That was masterfully realised huh, ftb and return empty, far better and more chilling than actually watching her meet the inevitable.....
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well you don’t know what’s in the curve,maybe there’s water so you can hydrate yourself for days until you get found
The worst part is that you can imagine it quite well- the smooth, cold concrete, the way you have to lay still without moving, the arch in your back. Every time you move your foot up is a risk of slipping, even though you know it won't gain a hold on the slope. You can't move far back enough to stand or even sit up, and in the end you're fighting a fate that you know will happen.
10/10 great anxiety producer lol
You forgot the ache on that leg itself. I can almost literally feel it and it makes me wanna throw up
@@bernardsoul5186same
Its scary to you cos you are a reckless and carefree person and you dont care about the consequence of your actions cos you are too stupid to imagine that. What I mean is dont engage in harmful activities which might lead you to a similar situation like her. A fast painless death is a good thing but if you get stuck in a life and death situation like her that would be really panful and the scariest moment of your life.
The left leg is in an extremely uncomfortable position, I could literally feel the panic
@@mnlight8308 just think of how the pain sensors would be screaming as the brain recognizes the lack of circulation is about make you loose the leg...*shivers*
Bro got 8 million views without saying a letter!
What a masterpiece
This place looks like a place that a psychopath would torture people
This is amazing because the entire time you watch this, it makes you feel as if that's you on that curve. You couldn't imagine the amount of times I had to break myself into reality and find that I was safe, at home and in my bed
*hugs*
Im experiencing the same while watching this at 4:14am.
I am on that curve….the movie is symbolic of anxiety and depression….
The Power of the MIND.... RIGHT?
@@philiptucker7590 and fear
Fight or flight
The perfect short horror film. No hope of escape or being saved just pain and blind desperation in the most minimally horrific setting imaginable. This is pure art.
You summed up my thoughts
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This film has haunted me for two years. Every few months I have to drag myself back here to watch it. There is something so perfectly horrific about it.
The fact something so simple in concept can create such a atmosphere of fear and uneasiness along with the pain of the protagonist absolutely amazes me. I always said how sound is a important factor in such projects, but here is nothing but the deep quick breaths of the character and the subtle high notes of music, and this fits perfectly for this grey empty landscape and a never-ending void
I read the analysis and yes this is exactly how depression is. U want to get out but u can't. U want to give up and die ( fall down the abyss) but at the same time u don't want to give up. The suffering , pain , fear and slowly u just go into depression more and more. The curves arent that steep showing that people don't take depression very seriously. U cannot come out until someone helps u. Beautiful movie
this is amazing
That’s a very good pov
instead, depression is something you can overcome. This short film is about trying to get out of something impossible. Theres absolutely no way you will get out of this curve, but there is a way to get out of depression. you keep fighting. some people slip and fall, but its possible to get back on flat land
@@spazzooun_release_d2327 and usually u need someone's help. Like in this case. But yes people can get out themselves too
@@lmao_ok2539 not exactly.
If I was on that curve, i wouldn’t last 2 seconds lemme tell you, i would flinch upon realizing and fall down the pit immediately
Hella yeassssss me tooo
I would try to stand up to get out and fall.
@𝙱𝚊𝚛𝚔𝚎𝚢 𝙽𝚊𝚊 and that’s why I would fall
Lmao dying , yup same here 🤣😂🤣🤣
Yeah that's right, don't give the demons the satisfaction and die quick. They will get bored if everyone does that and maybe stop killing people lol
I love how open they left the ending. It can be interpreted that she made it out through sheer perseverance and innovation, or that despite her best efforts, it was all for naught and she fell anyway.
This is more terrifying than most other horror movies I’ve seen. It’s not supernatural or anything, it’s based off fears of being stuck in a place and not able to escape, which is one of my fears, and also that it represents depression makes it even more disturbing
First impressions are that this film is not only about depression but also about the feeling of being stuck. She's there, we don't know how or why. This feeling is omnipresent when you feel stuck in a situation. And she knows she will eventually have to bite it and succumb to her inevitable fate, but keeps clawing at any hope to avoid it. Brilliant film.
Don't know where you got that interpretation from
Great analogy. I never thought of it like a psychological struggle....
gawd. Terrifying.
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I don't know about it being about depression..
@@novustalks7525art is open to whatever meaning makes sense to the viewer numbnuts
I think what really made me think was the fact that the only thing really keeping her from falling completely was her leg that was bent backwards. Also the idea of not having enough grip to actually do anything but enough grip to stay on the ledge is terrifying. Because it brings up those internal questions like “do I just give in and fall” or “do I try to get out” which brings the audience into which I think made me really enjoy this film as a whole. Amazing work 👏
It makes me think of someone dealing with suicidal thoughts, not wanting to become like the percentage, trying harder and harder to survive but it seems like there’s no way out, and living and trying is excruciating
Yeah, this also reminds me of that slanted jail cell with no bars that Tyrion was in at The Aerie in Game of Thrones.
Does anyone know the significance of her blowing on her hand and wiping it? I assume she’s trying to get a better grip on the wall but I don’t see how that would affect it
Personally, I would take off my shoes to stick better, than I would attempt to scooch my body over to the corner area, then I would spider man jump crawl up the corner, then try to get a hold of the ledge at the top and pull myself up.
I love the depiction of the passing of time. On the other side of her the bloody hand prints build up to show you others who have tried and failed. She was fighting for a lot longer than 10 minutes
She wasn't seeing the blood of others, it was her blood, she was "seeing" her fate
It's up to your interpretation. I interpreted the blood on the other hills as her seeing other people going through the same thing and failing.
@@MaddSpazz2000 you may be right, but I like my interpretation better. It adds more depth to the story. If it's not the blood of others, then we have to assume she fell in on accident, or was dropped in by someone. However if it is the blood of others, then we get to assume someone or something is abducting people/taking prisoners and torturing them this way. Which means you get this story told tens if not hundreds of times. Maybe more. She doesn't really need to see her fate to know what's happening to her. It's painfully obvious just how hopeless escape is. And watching other people struggle right in front of her while attempting the same thing she is, only to fail each time, just strengthens the fact that she isn't getting out alive.
@@MaddSpazz2000exacto... Interpreté lo mismo
@@jexotic1470al principio esas huellas no estaban, ha medida que pasa el tiempo se ve más sangre, quiere decir que es su mente viendo su destino, es lo que la atormenta
I absolutely love the detail of hearing other people yell and fall down in the background. It gives you a sense that even though she's not alone, that doesn't matter because no one can help her
the fact that you can hear other people falling to their death makes this way more terrifying
Actually it is her own voice. She is hallucinating. You can see where she starts to hallucinate bloody prints in front of her,the other side of the wall. The prints are getting longer and closer to to the very edge and the furthest is a confirmation that she fell because the position of the print is on a straight side of the wall which is straight to bottom. She knew that her death is inevitable and start to hallucinate but her survival instinct as a human pushes her to try and survive. The goddamn rain made it worse. I know it is a movie but it doesnt feel like it. It hits you deeply.
The entire film is horrifying. It is a masterpiece for sure. The fact they made it even more scarier that we dont know how she end up there in the first place and if she fallen or survived. I guess she fell down but how she end up there,i have no idea. Great short film. One of the best if not the best for sure.
@@ashokkumar-zw8vi Well, to me it was like the flowing: It's obviously not her voice because you can hear other's people's death screams until roundabout the middle of the movie. They became less and less. They fully went quiet when the cut was after it started to rain. Everything was quite, no one screaming despite of her. The other people lost it when the rain hit, but she was still "alive", but hallucinating. She was one of the last people that died, because she was a survivor.
@@urlocalthrombosis9601 maybe. I agree with you. It makes sense. I guess it depends on an individual to interpret. It hits the goal. I mean the movie. It is meant to be like that. Scary,vague,questions everywhere,assumption,trauma.. the director obviously wanted us to be questioning things and like it might be this,it might be that, something like that. I dont know how to put it. And hey he got what he wanted. He delivered his message.
But one thing for sure,he will never tell the full story because that ruins the fun in it. It is interesting and memorable if it is a question mark. But if he tells us the story we might forget it and it wont impact us as much as now. Well,sometimes some things will be or should be a mystery forever i guess.
Omg
@@ashokkumar-zw8vi wow
Giant industrial structures like this one freak me out
Whoever wrote or directed this must have had a recent experience with a painful situation. The continuous heavy breathing, the waves of pain coming and going, the intense focus needed to simply exist, the exhaustion...pretty well done.
I’m coming back to this film after a year so I’m not sure my exact words but this film is a representation of depression. It took the directors friend and he’s left us this masterpiece.
Or they've been in pain at least one time in their life.
Or some people are just good at writing horror stories and actually like them.
depression
Yes, the author/director stated this was based on two things 1. He was hit by a car and while lying on the asphalt he remembered his hands feeling the concrete or pavement underneath him, and how he gripped it to brace himself waiting for another car to roll over him (luckily he survived) and 2. He was visiting a depressed friend (maybe in a hospital) who was suffering from severe depression and grieving a loss who explained how he felt like he was on an edge feeling like he would fall (presumably into blackness). So it really is a great analogy to depression (I feel just like the character) and cold hard colorless cement adds to the bleakness of the situation. Definitely great short since it conveys so much in its short time. Great acting. This kind of reminds me of the movie The Platform (2019) if you liked this short try that movie. Only that movie is longer with more characters and movement.
Loved every detail of this. The slope wasn't steep enough to lose hope, but enough to make you doubt it. The character's ability to figure out the best way to get out, but not quite achieving it. The fact that the top was just reachable - giving another piece of hope. All this just keeps you right on the edge the whole time, even without dialogue or much storyline.
Huh. That’s interesting because I thought the top was very much not reachable. Maybe reachable if you had tools (rope, something to add friction so you could stand on the slope and reach up). But it seemed like even if she was able to stand up, it would be out of reach or only reachable with her fingers.
@@laurenm9203 I thought so too, but if you look at the opening scene where she wakes up, if she could stand she'd be able to jump to the edge and climb out.
so wack of you to copy a comment from a month before. actual weirdo behavior
It's not even about it being steep, it's about it being slippery and absolutely nothing to grab around you. In all movies there is always something to grab in last second, not here yooo not here.
this short film gave me the nastiest case of sweaty hands. everything from the claustrophobic shots to the freakishly lifelike sound design effectively induces you with peak anxiety. and the actress fully sells the dread of a peculiar situation such as this. praying for a feature film with the same concept NOT to get made, because there’s no topping this. it’s as smooth and perfect as the concrete walls it depicts
I literally screamed every time she got closer to the end..
Acting frightened is not easy. She does such a wonderful job portraying this emotion throughout this entire short. Well done!
Do you know the name of the thing she is on? I forgot.
@@theorignalmartian1261 Spillways.
I am not sure how I missed such masterpiece but thanks Sean for bringing me here
same lol
same with me
yeah
same
Yupp
Sterling is such a homie for popularizing this masterpiece
The thought about a seemingly endless void absolutely scares me to my core.
This is the best representation of addiction and/or depression I’ve ever seen.
Progress is grueling. You constantly slip trying to help yourself and do the right thing. Rain comes and it feels like external influences push you down. And even if you get to top of the curve, it feels like an insurmountable wall is right above: real life, living sober.
Very Apt
I also felt that way actually it's easy for her to climb up there the second time when the curve is showed that was her point of view and the curve Is so difficult for her to climb
I’ve been addicted to a few things but never have I felt like I might actually fall into a legitimate pit of death, I don’t feel panicked to the core just because I relapsed on alcohol or some other crap. Totally different feeling for me.
To clarify:
Addiction and it’s components may not be worse than death, but it absolutely feels that way. The pit does not represent death - it represents the horrors that addiction lead us into; the wall the hopelessness of escaping those things. As I’ve heard of addicts(including myself): first we rob others, then we rob ourselves - of emotion, vitality, money, everything.
The pit is not death, because death would be a welcome reprieve for so many of us. The pit is the throes of addiction.
I don’t diminish your understanding of addiction or interpretation.
@@andrewwhitney6787 no I did come off kinda ignorant, I’m sorry. It’s just me personally I’ve never had that certain connection to think on it at that level. My bad for my rude vibes.
this is really intense and i had nightmares like this, if i was in this situation i would just go back to sleep and whatever happen happens lol
Wear Hoodies from H& M and wear 501 Levis Strauss jeans, then no nightmare anymore, buddy
I've had nightnares similar to this as well. Thankfully I'm cognizant of it and I either wake up or develop an ability to get out
@@breathless_siren as i said to wear Hoodies from H& M while sleeping and Levi's Strauss jeans while wake up...no hurt feelings. Comments are comments
No cap I would too
Good luck falling asleep in that comfy looking situation
Me having hyperhydrosis: *instantly falls*
the scariest thing about this is knowing it’s impossible to get out of it. this gives me chills allll the time.
The description refers to a "sentient abyss" that is the dark void below the curves. That means it's alive, aware and able to think. It's like a giant, concrete version of a Pitcher Plant, and the girl is like a hapless insect, trapped inside.
I thought of that, too. Like some kind of terrible sapient architecture, the curves like the Pitcher plant's mouth.
And that ear-splitting metallic screeching- could be a building settling? Or it could be the call of the monstrous abyss below. Hungry.
....
'there is no [Sky] here.... you are Alone.... you shall Drift.
*you shall [Drown] in the [Deep's].'* - a *[Worm],* a *servant* to that *Eldritch [Enemy].*
Tell me you’re an English teacher/English major without telling me that you’re and English teacher/ English major
Cool interpretation
@@CaptainPilipinas that's freaking beautiful 😍 and it is equal to being
Trapped in any way
Even in like a relationship
This gets more and more disturbing the more you watch it. You really have ZERO idea what is going on. What did she do to end up in this predicament? Where IS she? Is this earth? Is she even human? Great film!
Yes
Elmo agrees
I think it’s a dog
Sort of like being alive in general
it’s a penguin
The best thing i see from it was the build up, the way her hopes are rising everytime she saw the blood from the other curve, and her scream when it started raining. Absolute Perfection! 😫❤️🔥
Genius. He knows precisely how to trigger your anxiety.
The most fucked part about this is that the curve makes you work against yourself. The higher you get, the safer you feel... but the truth is you're only creating distance and potential momentum to slip even harder/further. The curve gets steeper as you go up too, increasing the probability of that slip actually happening. I feel like her seeing more and more blood stains as she climbed reflected that perfectly
Thank You!! Someone smart in these comments man
He need more friction to get up
Stand on the inflection point.
Exactly and there is actually a simply solve for this. All she had to do was scooch over to the wall them shed have a more stable position. Of course even with that theres still the slow agonizing death from starvation or thirst looming ahead.
I always come back to this when I’m really struggling. The director said he spoke with a lot of people who have a mental illness, and it resonates with me so much.
There’s a really sad aspect about it; feeling like there’s no way out (depression), seeing/hearing other people who are in the same position as you not making it (suicide) and life just not giving you a break (the rainstorm).
And I remember being so upset that this ended on a cliffhanger, but I’m realizing it doesn’t matter now if she made it out or not. She kept trying, despite all of the odds seemingly against her…when I feel like giving up, I come back to this film.
I love your interpretation of this film
It didn't end up on a cliffhanger. She fell. Look at the credits.
Its not a cliffhanger. She clearly slippee
There's no way out. The end is always a fall into the abyss. Just like death in life.
@@Ukaran where ?
When I Saw Her Hand Bleeding, My Own Hands Felt Numb And Dropped My Phone On My Face 😭😭
Oops
one of the worst things about this is that if you don't die on impact there are either hundreds of bodies or something that can eat them. both terrifying
What a terrifying story, presented with a minimalist aesthetic and a suffocating and disturbing atmosphere. One of the most impressive shorts I've seen in the horror genre.
There is no story what are you talking about?
Bro doesn’t even know what story means
@@arkham5940right? Some people are still expecting their kindergarten teachers to start with “once upon a time” in order for something to be a “story”
@@devilhorn1and some of you are extremely pretentious. A lot of minimalist art is just bad art because it’s lazy. It gives way too much room for viewers own interpretations and ideas to the point where viewers write their own stories- that’s not good art. One day one of these minimalist artists will finally admit that they were messing with you and that the black dot on the blank canvas was just that. And that then 10 minute long video of nothing truly was just nothing.
@@Maddy-fd2uf that was an awful lot of words just to say “I don’t understand most art so I just assume no one else does, either.”
The scariest thing about this is not only the fact you can slide down at anytime or not getting out, but it's the mystery on what happens if you slide down accidentally
omg it reached 4.7k
WHAT THEH ELL I DONT EVEN REMEMBER THIS IVDEO
And what's down there is absolutely Darkness and the bottom is what we don't want to see😬🤯😧😰
Turbines, it’s a hydro damn.
Uh...you die?
I think I'll take my chances and fall
@@josellebolden578 if there is a bottom
The very definition of being on a slippery slope. What a fantastic film. I was on the edge of my seat and before i knew it the film was over. It felt more like 2 mins instead of 9 mins.
The last shot, with the rain coming down into the chute, would actually make a great video for going to sleep to...
Lemme just point out some of the cleverness this film has.
The first part where you see water shots and a person sleeping, makes you had a false sense that this will be another cliche "stranded" beginning. But behold, that 2 second of immediate curve shot really just kicks in the atmosphere.
The sound designs in this are stunning. The way you can feel each and every single of her movements made this feels to tense. And adding a more claustrophobic feeling while being in an open area. It also serves it purpose to make you feel lonely and helpless.
The setting of this film is a megalophobic, and disturbing place to be in. While also being mysterious yet ominous feeling of what's going on. It's so tense, while keeping you thinking but you don't have the time to.
And the ending, of the complete silence after the first droplet of rain, just makes you realized. How f****d up you are.
Just another masterpiece I witnessed, from a short film like these.
I really have to agree with you there! Amazing intense. But I thought it was almost acrophobic like, like you look down into a deep dark abyss, and thats what scares the F outta me. Anyways, amazing film!
@@funtimemai1119 oh yeah, I forgot to mention acrophobic and the fear of heights too(forgot what's its name).
@@dheatlycruvig7520 pretty sure acrophobia IS the fear of heights ;-;
@@zaamin2003 oh really? I must be stupid then.
@@dheatlycruvig7520 Yeah, hehe, your welcome ^^
As someone who is terrified of heights, this sends chills up my spine. Hell to the no. I'd have a heart attack if that was me
You'd die on the spot after waking up with a heart attack😂
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I feel you but for me it's the falling. I don't mind going up, going down is the problem.
Oh god no...
Definitely don't watch Fall then. Felt like my palms could fill a pool the way they were sweating watching that.
this is what depression feels like for me this is literally my life explained in a short film. Every time the woman manages to get up a little and move she also almost falls in to her death,this is really realistic for me.
The thing for me that makes this so good, is that it's based entirely on very real scenarios. There is no paranormal monster, no supernatural entity trying to kill you, just pure utter inevitability. It's that human instinct to survive, no matter how futile the situation. Why wouldn't you of course, as it's entirely possible that your screams could be heard, or that some worker for whatever the hell this structure is my find you by chance, or a passing helicopter, or whatever.
More than anything though, it's that sheer horror that, although you hold out all hope because it's all that's left, NOBODY is coming to save you. Just a matter of time.
This is some of the best horror I've ever seen, just because main character does everything right. She breathes deep, calms herself down, and thinks to her own blood to give traction. She is intelligent and determined and none of it matters because the odds are so stacked against her.
What tf are you talking about. She can literally see that somebody was bleeding and slid down. I'm not even sure how that's supposed to make sense anyway. What, because blood is thicker?
The odds are so stacked against her because an inevitable death takes less creativity than a fight-for-life scenario.
@@dongiano Why are you so angry over people liking this? Have you tried not being a no life incel? lmao
@@dongiano she was hallucinating that
@@dongiano why do you hate this video so much lol
Right?! It's so refreshing when a character doesn't make stupid decisions for the sake of making scary things happen.
What's ironic is that in this scenario it would've made sense to see her panic and slip to her death. Not like when in other movies people split or follow the trail of blood or walk into the woods at night after hearing a scream or seeing red eyes in the darkness.
Imagine this as a VR experience 😳
I'd rather not, thank you very much :)
lol ikr
Um.....im good
I'll take a hard pass
Wouldn't be as scary if you know it's a game and you won't die lol
Just saw this again. Still love it. The utter horror of the unknown and "why is this happening?" Is so good.
The thing that spoke to me the most and felt the most like my experience with mental struggles was the evidence that other people had struggled through the same thing, but the woman is still alone