Very impressive short film. Solid performances combined with a lot of tension and suspense. Would love to see a full on film adaptation. Definitely Chris' best work.
2 Reviews
Genuinely solid
BigBoyQ612 June 2022
Turns "Stupid Character Syndrome" on its head
Armin_Nikkhah_Shirazi26 May 2024
Warning: Spoilers
WE'RE NOT SAFE HERE follows three friends on a camping trip. At a camp fire, one of them tells the story of "La Mimica" a man-eating monster that can perfectly mimic human voices and other sounds. Later at night, two friends inside the tent are not sure whether what is outside the tent is the third friend or La Mimica.
Early on, the film pokes fun at a common bane of horror stories, what I call "stupid character syndrome", where characters behave in unrealistically stupid ways in order to advance the horror plot. It then proceeds to turn the trope on its head.
The conversation to ascertain who is outside the tent proceeds in a very naturalistic way. The characters are not stupid, and the way things progress is very believable. Everything happens as it might happen in real life, up to the last shot...
By rights, WE'RE NOT SAFE HERE should start a whole subgenre, namely what I would call "Intelligent monster movies". The malevolent entity uses cleverness to take deception in horror film to a whole new level.
I have a minor quibble in that an entity that can tear apart grown men in seconds should be able to penetrate a closed tent with no problems, but it does not change the fact that the central concept makes this horror short truly stand out.
I hope other horror film makers will be inspired by this to make their own intelligent monster movies.
Early on, the film pokes fun at a common bane of horror stories, what I call "stupid character syndrome", where characters behave in unrealistically stupid ways in order to advance the horror plot. It then proceeds to turn the trope on its head.
The conversation to ascertain who is outside the tent proceeds in a very naturalistic way. The characters are not stupid, and the way things progress is very believable. Everything happens as it might happen in real life, up to the last shot...
By rights, WE'RE NOT SAFE HERE should start a whole subgenre, namely what I would call "Intelligent monster movies". The malevolent entity uses cleverness to take deception in horror film to a whole new level.
I have a minor quibble in that an entity that can tear apart grown men in seconds should be able to penetrate a closed tent with no problems, but it does not change the fact that the central concept makes this horror short truly stand out.
I hope other horror film makers will be inspired by this to make their own intelligent monster movies.
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