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Sugar Baby

2022 · 16 min

A disorienting, claustrophobic plunge into fractured memory and dread, where trust curdles into terror and every moment feels like a fight to stay lucid.

Directed by: Brooke Robertson
Genres: Thriller
Starring: Hayley Festeryga, Francis Dufour, Anika Flynn

Tagline: You're silly, little bunny.
Overview: After years of being routinely drugged, Sugar Baby finds herself sex trafficked and must try to piece her memory back together in a desperate bid to stay alive and escape the only person she trusts and loves.

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Directed by: Brooke Robertson
Genres: Thriller
Starring: Hayley Festeryga, Francis Dufour, Anika Flynn

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Tone: darkstrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 3 of 3
bleakstrength 2 of 3
eeriestrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: trauma
betrayal
survival
isolation
memory
Places: single country house
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
unreliable narrator
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence strong
Sex strong

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Action	2
Horror	5
Humour	0
Realism	7
Romance	1
Tension	8
Darkness	9
Complexity	7
Emotional weight	9

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Genres: thriller
Directed by: Brooke Robertson
Written by: Brooke Robertson
Starring: Hayley Festeryga, Francis Dufour, Anika Flynn, Patricia C. Wright-Domingue
Runtime: 16 min
Country: Canada
Languages: English

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