curve [2016]

mi brother in rhyme jonathan hayes emailed me this short australian horror film written & shot by tim egan.  i've watched it four times.  the first time i was a little less impressed by the arch of the story.  particularly the ending.  but on my second, third & even fourth viewing i have come to admire the mastery of its minimalist storytelling.  the setting is rather simple.  the tension it produces is profound.  a young woman wakes up from some sort of trauma.  her forehead is bruised & bloody.  her left leg is tucked up under her body like it had broken.  she is perched on the concrete ledge of an unidentified abyss.  she is stuck.  trapped.  each movement of her body slides her a bit more to the edge of that black abyss.  egan raises the pitch up into a waking nightmare.  for who has not suffered from such a terrible dream.  trapped.  with no escape.  it is brilliantly told & harnesses the flat tones of grey that form a depressive state.  the sound design is wonderfully chilling.  this short is about 10 minutes long.  at the risk of using something that sounds like an old horror movie tagline, dare to watch curve.  just don't forget to breathe.