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Don’t Pick Up

2026 · 15 min

A tight, uneasy short that coils dread around office drudgery, making paperwork feel like a haunting.

Directed by
Ben White
Overview
Tye, a young aspiring junior attorney working on behalf of a Texas oil company, is tasked with falsifying documents connected to a wrongful death lawsuit. However, Tye quickly learns the victim, a worker who drowned in crude oil, haunts the case and now him.
How it feels
Dark, tense, eerie and bleak. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
About
Guilt, corruption, death, justice
Content
Mild violence, gore and language. No sexual content.
Note
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How it feels

Written by AI. It can be wrong.

Full breakdown
Tone
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
  • bleakstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Places
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror6
Humour1
Realism6
Romance0
Tension8
Darkness8
Complexity4
Emotional weight6

Cast

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Details

Directed by
Ben White
Starring
Kento Morita, Jose Eduardo Ramos, Bernardo Tiaba
Runtime
15 min
Country
United States of America

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