BLACK SUGAR
The preview image for this short film was confusing, and still is even after I've watched it. It's very blurry with a dark colour scheme. However, there is a patch of pink glow, drawing in the watcher as it looks very mysterious. The synopsis is what pulled me in.
"A group of bored suburban teens experiment with a mysterious new drug."
As the category is clearly stated to be "Fantasy about other worlds" I knew that something literally unbelievable was going to happen. It was going to be something as the result of taking a new drug, so I knew anything could happen.
The most intriguing part of the film is the sequence where the teenagers who have taken the drug start to hallucinate and appear to have been transported to another horror-filled world. They are taken by some sort of monster, which appears to be perhaps stop-motion, or maybe just someone in a costume, but I am very unsure. It reminded of the skeleton fighting scene in Jason and the Argonauts (which I will link below.)
I liked how it had the two worlds switching easily on the screen. The real world contrasted with the horror world with the fact that that the pace of the horror world was much faster, and the camera was mostly freehand and jolting to create a panicked atmosphere. The colour scheme was also darker, using dark blues and blacks.
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