A Wry Teenager Tangles With the Supernatural in This Awesome Proof-of-Concept Short

Meet Baxter — a deadpan teenager who ’s been accused of murdering his girlfriend , when really it seems she ’s been inspirit off into Cape Town ’s supernatural underworld . Can the metropolis ’s drunkest mystical bounty hunter help him get her back ? And where did that self-aggrandizing - American Samoa monster come from ?

Michael Matthews ’ Apocalypse Now Now is based on Charlie Human ’s bestseller of the same name , and it packs an exceptionally textured tale into just eight minutes . But you could really smell there ’s a lot more level to tell beyond what happens in that brief running time — the poor is really more of a sliver than a staring taradiddle . So here ’s hoping we ’ll see something more boom from this very promising trial impression - of - concept employment .

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