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Imgrund Owen
Добавлен 19 май 2022
Short films with a midwestern flare.
Award Winning Christmas Short Film | SEASON'S GREETIN'S
On a brisk winter evening, two friends get more than they bargained for when they discover a corpse in the trunk of a car.
AWARD WINNER
Wolf Tree Film Festival 2023 | Best Comedy
FINALIST
MLC Awards 2023 | Best M-obster-Flavored Film
MLC Awards 2023 | Best Midwest-Made Short
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Beloit International Film Festival 2023
Door County Film Festival
CAST
Jeffrey Charles
Ben Schmitz
Lauren Rosemurgy
CREW
Writer/Director | Owen Imgrund
Executive Producers | Nick Houchin & Owen Imgrund
Associate Producers | Nick & Karen Imgrund, Curt & Barbara Black, Mark & Susanna Spencer, Bobbi & Jodi Graffunder, Elaine Noll, and Dick & Vicki Imgrund
Director of Photography | Nick Houchin
Editor & Sound Mixer | Ow...
AWARD WINNER
Wolf Tree Film Festival 2023 | Best Comedy
FINALIST
MLC Awards 2023 | Best M-obster-Flavored Film
MLC Awards 2023 | Best Midwest-Made Short
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Beloit International Film Festival 2023
Door County Film Festival
CAST
Jeffrey Charles
Ben Schmitz
Lauren Rosemurgy
CREW
Writer/Director | Owen Imgrund
Executive Producers | Nick Houchin & Owen Imgrund
Associate Producers | Nick & Karen Imgrund, Curt & Barbara Black, Mark & Susanna Spencer, Bobbi & Jodi Graffunder, Elaine Noll, and Dick & Vicki Imgrund
Director of Photography | Nick Houchin
Editor & Sound Mixer | Ow...
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Видео
Award Winning Christmas Short Teaser | SEASON'S GREETIN'S
Просмотров 259 месяцев назад
On a brisk winter evening, two friends get more than they bargained for when they discover a corpse in the trunk of a car. AWARD WINNER Wolf Tree Film Festival 2023 | Best Comedy FINALIST MLC Awards 2023 | Best M-obster-Flavored Film MLC Awards 2023 | Best Midwest-Made Short OFFICIAL SELECTION Beloit International Film Festival 2023 Door County Film Festival CAST Jeffrey Charles Ben Schmitz Lau...
The Statement | Award Winning Lovecraft Short Film
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After investigating an Elder cult's meeting place, a professor wakes to find himself in an interrogation room with a grotesquely scarred hand. CAST James Finn Matt Wilhelm Jeffrey Peterson CREW Writer/Director | Owen Imgrund Executive Producers | Nick Houchin & Owen Imgrund Director of Photography | Nick Houchin Original Score | John Telfer Editor | Nick Houchin Assistant Director | Raphael Img...
Excellent work! Make more!
Nice. Good use of imagination. Liked the atmosphere. Very noir feel to it.
So good!
Really nice take.
Good use of sound.
Lol its terribly obvious when an actor doesn't smoke and pretends
The sound engineer on this film deserves an individual award. The sound editing was impeccable. Kudos to all involved in this little masterpiece. ♥
Excellent ... everything flows nicely, evolutive loops are the right way to use them :)
Old guy acts real well . Tho whole movie was meh
This was great! People who can't do bitch about everyone who does!
I like my Carter shaken, not stirred.
No smoker smokes like this. Better try more next time, this one is a joke and HPL doesn’t approve.
I love how you switch the original perspective form Lovecraft original story! It’s pretty clever and interesting
Supernice ❤
💋 Promo*SM
No tentacled monsters, but l like the loop effect, which reminds me of 'lnto the Mouth of Madness'. Full length film, to my mind a Lovecraftian masterpiece. Nobody else gives a shit about it, which l think is fitting.
RE complaints of bad acting: Guys, it's LOVECRAFT, who couldn't write natural dialogue or people behaving normally. The actors are perfectly in character! As for what Nyarlathotep is after, he wants to find out who the Professor shared information with to know who else to kill to keep things secret. And since he can't read the guy's mind, he has to use trickery. It was irresponsible for the Professor to send Carter into such danger without an Elder Sign or protective mantra or even a revolver, just in case. Armitage wouldn't have made that mistake.
How many knives does this women own?????
Heyyy it's the best Christmas film ever made!
super obvious that the dude doing the questioning doesn't smoke
Or act
As a non smoker I couldn't tell.
This is how non-smokers think smokers smoke. 1: long, meaningful drag 2: tilt head at the ceiling 3: savour 4: return with steely gaze 5: puff out cheeks and blow smoke out disdainfully 6: more steely gaze 7: gesture dramatically with cigarette 8: repeat 1-7 until finished 9: flick butt away in slow motion, preferably onto an exploaives fuse of some sort. 10: stroll away uncaringly while something blows up in the background How smokers actually smoke: 1: smoke 2: cough up phlem 3: spit 4: frantically wave the smoke out the bathroom window when wifey yells "are you smoking?" 5: question life choices... 6: repeat
lol, nice
Remembering that HP himself wrote short stories, building his universe incrementally, I love how these short films pick up the threads he left for us.
Statement of Jonathan Sims, the Archivist, regarding his experiences with eldritch horror. Statement begins.
Don’t put stage actors in films. This was community theater acting.
Why do you have to promote smoking cigarettes in the 21st century?
Lol, what?
Because it fails to imitate human smoker. Who knows if it even has lungs or not
very nice. Piece of construvtive critisism, would be the sound. The dialouge sounds tinny, no matter the environment. But nice. Good to see H.P. still has a legacy that inspires. D
Loved it! just one tiny detail, wish the guy paying the investigator really knew how to smoke, it was the only detail that kept me thinking this was not real.
Silly opinion. Is it not possible that the cosmic deity just doesn’t know how to smoke? It seems more like you’re doing some sorta weird elitist ‘oh well i smoke all the time so my immersion is ruined as a regular cool smoker person’
@@bertiesaurus I actually noticed the same thing, and I haven't smoked in 20 years. And the OP said he loved it, so pump the brakes on the comment coaching. Nothing that detracted from the film, but yea, kinda obvious the actor has never smoked a day in his life, and that's not entirely a bad thing. And yes, since you asked, I would think an ancient, cosmic deity WOULD know how to mimic a man. Just take Nyarlathotep for instance.
@@beardedhussar1755I seriously do not believe that this is a reasonable thing to get caught up on, and I don’t think it’s fair to reference a different cosmic deity, which exists in different lore universe to explain this universe’s lore
@@bertiesaurus That's the funny thing. It was just an observation from the OP. And one that I noticed. The show was excellent and based on an HP Lovecraft story, hence my reference to Nyarlathotep. So I believe I am in the correct universe. You are the only one getting hung up on the observation itself. It started with your first comment.
@@beardedhussar1755 " And the OP said he loved it, so pump the brakes on the comment coaching. " The comment coaching is more valid than the inane smoking coaching, which is pure cringe.
Nan these 5 year old clowns are looking for authenticity in a short movie which is based upon a fictional story. In every great horror movie all characters make a ton of choices that are completely illogical and inauthentic but that does not deter these clowns from going ga ga over them. Next they will be whining about how this ghost should look like,or how come ghosts can walk through walls,why is it so dark, as if they spend most of their time with ghosts and are completely aware of what they look like and how they behave in certain situations but the last straw for me was this lot using theories of physics on how a cigarette should be smoked from the side of your mouth and not the middle. I am a lifetime smoker who smokes atleast 30 cancer sticks a day but never have I smoked them from the side of my mouth. For me and a dozen of my friends it's the centre of the mouth method that works. These clowns need to do some research on how suspension of disbelief has been the strongest pillar of the art that is storytelling and especially when those stories are based in fiction and mythology.
That was anything but lovecraftian
Very well presented.
"You fool! Randolph is dead!"
I’m sorry but the acting is annoyingly over the top
What an excellent vid! This is, I think, a worthy spiritual successor to some of lovecraft's short stories and his ideas vis: cosmic horror, etc; While it avoids some of his worst tendencies (towards excessive verbosity, anglophilia, repetitiveness, etc... And, you know..) The pacing, the dynamic between the two primary characters- the willingness to allow its ambiguity to be integral to its horror, and so on. Thanks for posting it!
Good little film. Its always funny to see a non smoker trying to play a smoking role and how ridiculous they look. What was he trying to do when taking a puff...eat it like an ice cream cone and then not inhale. Jeez would have been better to make him non smoker instead of him looking like a fool. The old man was a smoker though. That's the only constructive criticism I can bestow.
Excellent little concept and well executed. Really liked it
Cthulhu Phone Home!
Such a good lil film. Guy should known be careful as when staring into the abyss it stares back.
So Nietzche, much edge. Big clap.
H E K
Very interesting film.
This was excellent.
amused that others believe this is good acting. sorry, not impressed ... stilted , dry , unimaginative
Nobody of smart assases in the comments didnt thought that detective wasnt human, that means it maybe can read proffessor mind to produce a likeable image of a "cool smoking officer"? And may be proffessor didnt smoke himself?
4:54 ? why is there room echo in the voice overdub? I assume the lines were overdubbed later and the actor had too much room echo so the vid editor put a room verb on the other actor as well to make them sound similar in the walking with back to camera section. Shame because suddenly they're both in a bathroom talking instead of outdoors with no echo like before 4:54. Not nitpicking like others will say but noticing an obvious error that should not be there and is easily fixed by asking the actor to do his overdubs in a vocal booth. You can buy those things to put around a mic to block out most of the room echo. Ah the old feedback cycle plot tactic. How did he carve such great letters with only his teeth? wow. but why would he carve out HEK the first time? Maybe he didn't have time to finish it? anyway.... another unresolved short. Leaving stories unresolved is not cool, it's lazy, imo. It's all the rage with people but to me it's basically saying I can't figure out HOW to create a great ending so I'll just chop it off w/o having to commit to anything and call it a CLIFF HANGER! oh well.... There's a few ways to end but just stopping it seems a cheap way out of making that executive decision. I think resolving the conflict AND leaving something left dangling is a great way to end a story. Here, nothing is resolved except who the interrogator is (basically, the bad guy). But how does prof get out of the loop and to safety? Okay, carry on!
What did the older guys left hand say?
He knows.
@@user-tp9hk8ox8sthank you so much that was bugging me
Thank you both soooooo much for asking and answering this question. I was trying so hard to read it!
More confused, bewildered and perplexed at the end than at the beginning. Bad acting, bad sets, bad dialogue and this short probably assumes the viewer already knows something about some backstories. Should have left the cigarettes out; this was distracting and awkward.
A fantastic short!!
Great video ...just dont have anymore smoking scenes unless the actor knows how to smoke js
This… was really F’n good.
Reminds me of “The Endless”
the acting was bad
amazing
Imagine watching a horror short film with tons of high concepts involved, and then going on at length about the inaccuracy of the smoking as if that was the most important part of the narrative.
I think as others implied it's a clue that he isn't human, but it obviously went over too many people's heads lol
@@drinking_master Honestly I think it was an honest mistake that nobody should care about.
They are leading our attention from bad acting.
@@johnathanmonsen6567. Wrong. First comments Right
It breaks imersion... But whatever, its only in the beggining