When Adam brings home an antique jack-in-the-box for his wife, pop goes the evil.When Adam brings home an antique jack-in-the-box for his wife, pop goes the evil.When Adam brings home an antique jack-in-the-box for his wife, pop goes the evil.
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- TriviaThis short was shot entirely in one night for a mere $2000 budget. Post production was completed in one week.
- ConnectionsEdited into The Penny Dreadful Picture Show (2013)
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High budget clichés
As far as clichés go, Slash-in-the-Box has them all: possessed toys, ball bouncing down stairs, hot female lead, wise-ass male lead, clowns, overly- curious characters, and wondering a dark house at night (though they actually turned a light on which is unheard of).
There were a couple clever scenes but aside from that there's not much to be gained from watching this. A couple jumpscares might get you here and there but personally I loath jumpscares and think they're very short- lasting and uncreative ways to scare your audience. The gore wasn't too overdone, as I would've expected it to be in such a cliché of a short.
Overall it wasn't bad though, the cinematography, acting and special effects were actually really good, the story and idea itself were just very dull and the methods to convey said story and idea were way too cliché for my liking.
There were a couple clever scenes but aside from that there's not much to be gained from watching this. A couple jumpscares might get you here and there but personally I loath jumpscares and think they're very short- lasting and uncreative ways to scare your audience. The gore wasn't too overdone, as I would've expected it to be in such a cliché of a short.
Overall it wasn't bad though, the cinematography, acting and special effects were actually really good, the story and idea itself were just very dull and the methods to convey said story and idea were way too cliché for my liking.
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- AstenCulloski
- Nov 27, 2015
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- Коробка с сюрпризом
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- $2,000 (estimated)
- Runtime5 minutes
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- 2.35 : 1
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