Horror Shorts Program 1 - Deviant Pictures Shorts
DEATH IN CHARGE
15 minutes/US/English / Short Narrative/Dark Comedy
Director: Devi Snively
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MIAMI PREMIERE
ABOUT THE FILM: In the tradition of E.C. Horror Comics, this cautionary tale examines life through the eyes of Death who gets derailed when an impatient single Mom carelessly mistakes the scythe-carrying cloaked one for her tardy babysitter and leaves Death to care for her precocious 9-year-old daughter.
Whitney teaches Death about life’s many marvels through violent video games, macaroni and cheese and the magic of Sea Munkees. But when Whitney reveals some dark tendencies of her own, it’s up to Death to lighten things up before returning to the grim duties that lie in wait … Source: deathincharge.com
CAST: Bart Fletcher, Brittany Carson, Marina Benedict, Gillian Shure, Kylie Chalfa, Mayah Schweibert, Caroline Timm, Tom Burke, Phil Kaufmann, Ben Sharples, and Chelsea Chalfa.
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I SPIT ON ELI ROTH
15 minutes/US/English / Short Narrative/Dark Comedy & Horror
Director: Devi Snively
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MIAMI PREMIERE / Midnight Mania
ABOUT THE FILM: Once upon a time three female filmmakers were lamenting the current state of the male-dominated horror genre over cosmopolitans at the annual Genghis Con convention when inspiration, propelled by a good vodka buzz, struck…
“Hey, why don’t we make a feminist horror film?” they mused.
The three in question were Paula Haifley (www.heyflea.com), Jane Rose (www.jane-rose.com) and Devi Snively (www.deviantpictures.com) who all had films screening at the annual Pretty-Scary Women in Horror Film Festival run by Heidi Martinuzzi (www.pretty-scary.net) and Amy Lynn Best (www.happycloudspictures.net)
Nursing a hangover on the ride home from Pittsburgh, Devi whipped up a script. A few months later, she returned to the Steel City to shoot the five-minute short with fellow horror filmmakers Jane and Amy and the special FX by Midian Crosby (http://www.monstersfrommidian.com). Source: deviantpictures.com
CAST: Amy Lynn Best, Jane Rose, Devvyl I. Signe, Aaron Arlof, and Lydia Fandry.
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MEAT IS MURDER
9 minutes/US/English / Short Narrative/Dark Comedy
Director: Devi Snively
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EAST COAST PREMIERE
ABOUT THE FILM: So like this mysterious meatloaf in the icebox is like killing people maybe…Bummer.
MEAT IS MURDER takes a post-modern satirical perspective of the deluge of unnatural, processed foods and hyper-consumerism in our society. Combining elements of Eugène Ionesco’s absurdist brand of existentialism and a contemporary approach to storytelling akin to Bertolt Brecht (replacing the traditional chorus with a TV commercial jingle), MEAT IS MURDER melds pop culture with social commentary and humorous pretension. Funded in part by the Indiana Arts Grant. Source: deivantpictures.com/76/meatismurder
CAST: Ken Dusek, Jr., Molly Emmons, Kevin McInerney, and Steven Barnett.
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ABOUT THE DIRECTOR - Devi Snively
Writer/directrix Devi Snively’s signature “romantic musical horror comedy” genre has been likened to everything from the silent classics of Buster Keaton to EC Comics to Tim Burton and beyond.
Devi (pronounced DAY-vee) is an adjunct professor at the University of Notre Dame where she teaches her always over- enrolled course “Cultures of Fear: Anthropological Perspectives of the Horror Film,” the impetus for her upcoming book.
She has worked professionaly as a ballerina, Spanish translator, hair model, book editor, video game writer, documentary filmmaker, newspaper columnist and video editor. She’s been decidedly unprofessional in several other careers.
In 2007 she was selected as one of eight participants to the prestigious American Film Institute (AFI) Directing Workshop For Women (DWW). To date she’s written multiple feature-length screenplays, directed nine short films and a feature-length documentary, and has just finished shooting her first feature-length narrative, TRIPPIN’ (also screening at Geek Film Festival). Her last three short films have been officially selected to screen at over 100 festivals worldwide and garnered numerous awards and critical acclaim. Source: deviantpictures.com / devisnively.com