tek's rating: ½

Shiny New World (8:00)
IMDb; official website; YouTube

This 2021 short film was presented by Alter in 2024.

The film is in Dutch, with English subtitles. Well, I saw this on Alter, which is for horror films, but while the short has a horror element to it, it's more of a comedy. However, I ultimately chose to list it under "mockumentaries". It's not exactly done in that style, though; rather it's in the style of a training video for new employees of a cleaning company called Shiny New World. But i figured that's close enough to being a mockumentary. There's a narrator, as well as a veteran employee of the company, named Barry. He has a partner who isn't given a name in the film, and I don't want to spoil anything about the partner... except to say that he doesn't speak, and he's, um, very unusual. Anyway, what they clean is a bungalow in the woods that had been rented by a group of teenagers, who were killed by a demon the night before the day on which the film takes place.

That's the premise, and I found it interesting and amusing. I thought the film was well made. And I don't know what else to say.


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