Killing Eve
2018
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Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series 2022 · Nominated
Mar 23, 2023 · The Chair: Directed by Curry Barker. With Jonnathon Cripple, Seth Goodfellow, David Alan Graf, Anthony Pavone. After Reese brings home an antique chair, a series of horrific events follow, leading him to question if it's a malevolent spirit the chair possesses or the darkness inside his own mind.
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- Short, Horror
- Curry Barker
- 2023-03-23
- What Is The Chair About?
- Is The Chair An Allegory For Old Age and Alzheimer’s?
- Is The Chair About A Murder?
- Why Is The Chair Generating Buzz?
The short really doesn’t have a linear narrative. It begins when Reese (Anthony Pavone) brings home an old chair that he found on the side of the road. Standing on the porch, barely in the frame, is Old Man Franklin (Jonnathon Cripple), an unnerving presence throughout the 24 minutes. Reese’s girlfriend of six months, Julie (Haley Schwartz), argues...
A viewer can certainly interpret the chair as an object that brings bad mojo inside the home. What’s more unsettling about the short is the way it confronts Alzheimer’s. At one point, Julie says Reese is losing his mind and doesn’t realize it. She adds that he has Alzheimer’s, so there’s a chance viewers are only seeing his scattered memories, henc...
There’s another possibility and theory to explore. Reese could have murdered one of his former co-workers named Fence. At one point, Julie mentions how her boyfriend lost his job, how he has dark thoughts, and how he constantly talked about killing his co-workers. Eventually, police arrive at the house to question him. Is that real? Again, that’s t...
Like any good horror movie, The Chair works because it grapples with more profound fears and anxieties. More specifically, it tackles the knowledge that we’re all going to get old one day. Our minds will fail us, to the point we question the time and date. This is what makes the short so effective. Like Parker Finn’s Smile, which was initially a sh...
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