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Maggie

2023 · 16 min

A quiet, uneasy short that builds dread slowly in an ordinary house until the loneliness turns threatening.

Overview
A young health worker tries to place a lonely old man into private care. However, when strange things start happening around the house, she discovers that maybe the lonely old man isn’t completely alone after all and her life may be in grave danger. Starring Shaun Scott (Marvel’s Moonknight).

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How it feels

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Tone
    Pacing
    slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • isolation
    • fate
    • death
    Places
    • single country house
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    None
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence mild
    • Sex none
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action1
    Horror6
    Humour1
    Realism6
    Romance0
    Tension6
    Darkness6
    Complexity4
    Emotional weight5

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    Details

    Genres
    horror
    Directed by
    James Kennedy
    Written by
    Simon Sylvester
    Starring
    Shaun Scott, Lukwesa Mwamba, Geliq Berg
    Runtime
    16 min

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