Curve | Disturbing Horror Short Film
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- čas přidán 9. 06. 2021
- Clinging to a curved surface high above a sentient abyss, a girl has to cover the few feet back to safety before she loses grip.
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CURVE
Written and Directed by Tim Egan
"Winner of ‘Best Short’ awards at both Fantastic Fest and Sitges in 2016, Tim Egan’s 10-min Horror Curve is a dark, minimalist, and truly unsettling film. Simple in premise, but immeasurable in impact, prepare yourself for what is set to be one of the most tense and unforgettable shorts you’ll witness in 2017.
Reminiscent of one of my favourite long-shorts (if an almost 50-minute film can really be classified as a short?), Shinya Tsukamoto Haze, Curve is at its most powerful when putting you inside the headspace of its doomed protagonist. An uncompromising, physical watch, Egan’s film sends shivers down your spine as you imagine your own fingernails desperately clawing to that unforgiving concrete, in hope of getting any kind of traction. It’s really hard not to watch Curve without setting your mind racing about what you’d attempt in that situation - however horrifying and hopeless it might be!
Taking just 8 hours to write, from first concept to shooting script, Curve was inspired by two key moments in the director’s life - the first being hit by a car and the second a conversation with a depressed friend.
“I still remember the feeling of wet tarmac under my fingers” Egan recalls when describing his lucky escape after being knocked into the centre lane of busy traffic, where he gripped the asphalt preparing to be struck by a second car in a matter of seconds. Whilst this first experience was an undeniable physical one for the writer/director, the second influencing experience was a much more mental one.
Describing a conversation he had with a friend struggling with grief, where she explained that “the only good moments of her day being the seconds after she woke up”, Egan obviously had some more symbolic intentions coursing under the surface of his thoughts when writing Curve. “Her mind was clear and at peace for a few seconds before she remembered her pain”, he recalls. “Then grief rushed in, a feeling not unlike vertigo. She said the earth opened up beneath her and the rest of her day was simply about holding on by sheer force of tension”.
Despite knowing this particular influence on Egan’s script, Curve feels like a film better left unscrutinised. Yes we could talk about all the metaphors (or is it allegory?) in the scenario of a bloody woman clinging to the precipice of life. But Egan’s is a short best enjoyed without all this bullshit. A film best enjoyed in the moment, a film best enjoyed for its raw, uncompromising approach - however uncomfortable that may be." - S/W Curator Rob Munday
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CREDITS
DIRECTOR Tim Egan
SCREENWRITER Tim Egan
PRODUCER Ahren Morris
EDITOR Tim Egan
CINEMATOGRAPHER Tim Egan
CAST Laura Jane Turner
Reproduced on this channel with the permission of the filmmakers. - Krátké a kreslené filmy
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Damn
Wow this is something else 😯
Pathetic ad
What happen to the girl
How did she get there in the first place?! Janice
these converse commercials are getting crazy
Lol
bro this would suck as a converse commercial 😭 if she actually got a grip with them it’d be good 😂
This is a Vans commercial lmao showing how shitty Converse are 😭 (I love Converse)
@@daniellegiusti1780 idk why but this the funniest sht I’ve seen in a MINUTE 😭😭😭
Converse are good but they slip hella 💀
You can just tell this was born out of a very lucid nightmare someone had
True
I naturally experience lucid dream. It can be hella terrifying
@@AnUpo17tell?
@@Sloths4life25 tell what?
The lucid dream it's ok if no
@@AnUpo17
Afraid of heights, afraid of darkness, afraid of being alone, not knowing where you are, this is a nightmare. I loved the film.
Add fear of being not alone... to this list
Super!
Many have mentioned how well this film works as a metaphor for depression or addiction, but I think it also works as a metaphor for trying to escape poverty with no safety net. Where it's a struggle just to maintain your place, climbing out feels impossible, and one wrong move can send you sliding down toward the terrifying abyss of homelessness.
True
Currently been in this situation, underpaid 9 to 5 job sucks 😞😔
Have yall ever thought that there's no message to it that he just wanted to make something scary?
@@codygrimes6157This is one of those pieces where there can be metaphors or none at all; ever heard of media literacy?
@@BeInsNowshut up
The most terrifying thing about this, is not that you might fall/slide down, but the fact that you know, you can't get out!!!
Good shoes and you can go around.
Yeah true
Right
The most terrifying thing about this is not that you might fall/ slide down, but the fact that you know you can’t out
@@bsobocan yeah, we talking about shoe, I hope some anti slip shoe brand take this opportunity to make advertising like this 😂 the good shoe is the key to survive LMAO
Makes you feel grateful that you're safely laying on your bed at home
Iam sitting on my couch I wish I was there I would let my self fall maybe something good happens downstairs
@@alexpowers5117 don't do it bro. Call suicide prevention hotline 🥹
@@ArhunBeyik let go of your earthly tether, enter the void. Empty, and become wind. Empty, and become wind.
@@Shazoo1997 bro what
@@Shazoo1997 you do realize thats jail time right? Trying to convince someone to kill themselves?
This gets more and more disturbing the more you watch it. You really have ZERO idea what is going on. What did she do to end up in this predicament? Where IS she? Is this earth? Is she even human? Great film!
Yes
Elmo agrees
I think it’s a dog
Sort of like being alive in general
it’s a penguin
There is so much "unknown" in this short film, and that's what makes it terrifying. Not knowing where she is, why she's there, how she got there, if she's even awake to begin with, and most importantly whats at the bottom of that abyss if there even is a bottom.
There's something about smooth surfaces that is unsettling. No grip. No escape.
@Blank Space you're a legend 👑
@Blank Space king kings or queens 👑
It’s also a form of torture
I’ve had nightmares of being in her situation gripping for my life holding on to anything I could only to lose and fall into a void the void is truly my biggest fear and is my reason I am scared of the dark
@@khamjaninja. if you only know
The atmosphere, the character noise louder than everything else, no jumpscares, realistic instinct, and silence. All perfect horror
The scariest part was at 7:06 when you could hear someone in the distance slipping, and shortly after you hear them yell and then a bang noise... I'm assuming you know what that came from
Name of movie???
@@smqueen8788 "Curve"
@@smqueen8788 it's literally the title
Yep, raw and realsh*t
This is a perfect representation of how it's like to struggle as the working class.
The fear of sliding off keeps you from relaxing, but getting to the top is an impossibility so you're stuck in this in-between state of uncomfortableness and safety.
My palms were sweating till I read this lol
@@Blake4625kHz weak knees arms are heavy, theres vomit on his sweater already moms spaghetti
@@DethklokMinion
Is that a song you wrote, I hope not
@@Blake4625kHz Eminem
@@DethklokMinionbro you do not listen to that foo ✍️
I couldn’t imagine how hopeless you must feel when you see the first raindrop on your hand and the distant thunder crack. Masterfully made, full of suspense and overall great short film. The final, empty shot left me haunted.
That was masterfully realised huh, ftb and return empty, far better and more chilling than actually watching her meet the inevitable.....
Her left leg, folded so uncomfortably, must have experienced an intense moment of relief as she fell
I was terrifyed by the film but now after I read your comment life is good
Her leg definitely fell asleep and ik that was painful
We don't know if she fell.
@@mishi144 Es obvio, nos mostraron que otros ya se cayeron, ese era su destino.
@@mishi144Then she HOVERED her way to safety?
Take your shoes off, you need more grip. Wet your jacket with your blood and put it over your hands and use the grip to turn around. Then it’s easy as standing straight up and doing a backflip straight down into the void.
I mean...if you know you're gonna die, at least die in style amirite?
Read this word by word, didn't go the way I expected. Bravo :D
They had us in the first half, not gonna lie
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣😂
You gotta point 💀💀💀
I think the fact that so many people relate to this for so many different reasons, and can draw paralells to many real life stuggles makes this piece timeless. Everyone can see something different here, and no one is wrong.
This is what holding on to something that isn't there feels like. Perhaps Letting go would release & end the pain once & for all. So many different interpretations. Such an amazing story.
I think that that is a thing with suicide, where if you just let go and 'end the pain once and for all' it would all feel better, when in reality it's just passing on the pain.
Can we all just appreciate her acting for a minute? My god she has some fucking talent, she did it perfectly!
What if she’s not acting
Nani
YES!
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This acting is seriously perfect
Every time she slips, you just feel the jump in your bones. What a great way to throw in "jumpscares" without actually having something jump in front of you.
yes!! 😍
Slip scare
Then it’s not a jump scare then is it….
@@JPL1KETHESAUCE it's a... scare
yesss!!
I think this short film shows how people struggle to hold on in life. It might also be talking about how people with addictions are close to falling into a hole where if you fall too deep, there’s no escape.
There's always an escape. It's NEVER too late.
I took this as just a metaphor for our mortality. You’re gonna fall into oblivion eventually, no matter how much you claw and struggle to delay it awhile longer, and you sure as hell can’t climb back up the curve.
Great film. I’ve always thought the best horror is the bleak kind!
The Curve does exactly what horror movies/shorts are supposed to do. It doesn’t just throw cheap jump scares at you and scare you momentarily, instead it creates a terrifying atmosphere and makes you feel the horror and fear inside you with the characters. Truly a great short.
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i saw this comment on jack's video lmao
@@gaywifey3367 yeah haha I was like wait-
This short was terrible. People need to stop excusing short films flaws because they have a limited budget and can't afford anything.
i swear i've seen this exact sentence many times
this feels like one of those nightmares where you just struggle to actually wake up from and be done with it but it still feels real. absolutely terrifying cause you know she just didn't even have a chance of surviving.
She did, but she had to act fast before it started raining
Exactly!
@@darkjakultimate6605 what else could she have done though?
@@darkjakultimate6605 The wall behind her was straight and flat, even if she could avoid slipping to her death, she would have no way of climbing it to safety.
@@epapa217taking the shoes off would help climb back up.
Disturbing is putting it lightly. This is one of the most brilliant films ever made, long or short
Me battling heroin addiction. I got out five years ago. How you might ask my at the time one year old was waiting for me. One wrong move is all it takes to lose your grip and fall one last time. My friends never made it out and i think about them everyday.❤
Who asked
@@aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa4399 I did.
I’m so proud of you!!
@@aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa4399 no one, but we needed it. stop being an asshole and be proud, or not, continue being an asshole for all we care.
You'll eventually grow up@@aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa4399
As a person who is scared of heights, this is absolutely terrifying.
Who wouldn't find this terrifying, scared of heights or not?
But also claustrophobic 😩😩😩
I’m not afraid of heights but absolutely hate the feeling of falling. This would be a nightmare, literally, I have so many nightmares about falling
Me too
For real like my anxiety going crazy
No gore, no serial killer, no jump scares and still one of the best horror short fills I've ever seen.
You can't be serious lol
@@dongiano Fr, what's horror without some jump scares?
No actual ending...?
@@1vada1 I mean, I don't feel like jump scares make a horror movie scary, but still. This film is so random and pointless, even good jump scares couldn't have saved it. I think a lot of these short film creators use a sort of *you create the horror in your mind* method, as an excuse for a total lack of creativity.
@@1vada1 horror ain’t about jumpscare. It’s about making the audience feel uncomfortable and disturbed
When i see this kind of videos (I struggle with depression and anxiety) i always think about if I'm gonna dream about this this night 💀
Same frrr
Hey! Hope you’re still doing well, and know that your fate isn’t inevitable like in this video. Take care of yourself as much as you can and every time you do that you heal just a bit. I don’t know if this helps but I hope it does
I feel this is the perfect reflection for people suffering with poor mental health when it feels like no matter what you do, you can't crawl out of the dark hole you're being pulled into.
Also you can't see others who are also suffering
I think that another part of this metaphor is the fact that she could theoretically get out, if someone from outside could help her with a rope or something similar, like how someone suffering from depression or addiction needs outside intervention.
Right. Like when it feels hopeless. Like nothing will ever save you except a hand from God. Sadly for most help comes too late if at all.
Also how the harder she tries to climb out she falls father and farther. You can see her slowly losing hope throughout the video
I've dealt with people that suffers from depression, you can't help them. They need to help themselves.
@@Kkarl224 I have depression and I strongly disagree. Do I have to put in work myself? Of course. But without the help of my family, friends, GP and mental health professionals I would be dead.
@@stephenmarriott369 maybe you weren't depressed.
I have been here. I fell while rock climbing 2 years ago. I was out there alone and it took me 12 hours to crawl off a cliff after I fell and shattered my right knee and left ankle. This short captures what I felt. The most terrifying part of my ordeal was when I was clinging to a rock face and I knew I was going to fall. There was absolutely nothing I could do and I knew it was going to be bad. What followed was the hardest 12 hours of my life. I video taped my trip off the cliff for my young daughter in case I didn't make it home. So she would know I didn't lay down and die. I fought for my life. I still can't watch the video messages I made and thinking about what happened brings me to tears.
I can't believe you guys captured what I lived, ripping the scab off my memory of that day on that mountain in the Dolores river valley, Colorado. I bet you guys never realized somebody has actually lived what you have shown and let me tell you something. Fear is not a strong enough word for what it feels like to be up there waiting to fall.
As a matter of fact I think I will share this short with my friends so they will have a feel for what I went through. You have shown what I could never put into words.
Peace.
Wow, that is a very inspiring story man
Cost u post it on here?
Can you post it?
Glad your OK dude
If you can share your experiences ?
I love this! My interpretation of this is that she was either depressed or fighting addiction. Once the rain washed her hand clean. She had another chance to save herself. So she took the noose from around her neck and used it as traction to pull herself out of her situation.
It’s life. Impossible to go back, inevitable to go forward.
It's up there along the scariest shorts i've watched. We really don't need monsters to be scared shitless.
Absofuckinglutely!
@@sarsarl5792 BRILLIANT,,,THIS WORD HAS TO GO INTO THE OXFORD DICTIONARY,,,,NOW!!!!!!!! So cool @@@
ABSOFUKINLUTELY,,,CLASSIC!!!!!!
What ones do you recommend?
@@pejapl13 u may search for SHI, THE SCARED ONE, VISCIOUS, THE INTRUDER, IN EXTREMIS, MAMA, FATHER, WILD, FEWDIO.. if you're really into scary short films you'll enjoy all of these.
This is legitimately what nightmares are made of. The acting. The spine-chilling premise. Not knowing how she got there. Knowing she'd never escape. Everything was spot on. What a brilliant horror masterpiece
Cmon dude, there's nothing masterful about it. Somebody had less than 20 minutes to write a film with no discernable location, literally no storyline, and no way to end on a better note. It did not take brilliance.
@@dongiano umm act it DOSE and it ISH a master film bc wat chu dunt get or relize ish tat the film in of itself potrays the emtion of depwesstion and the knowing of chu know chu CANT escape chur fate nu matter how hard chu twy 2 😥
@@shadowdragonx07 oK I gawt chu
Yeah I can understand why you think that, but *I* think it's nonsense and crazy uncreative.
@@dongiano lmao I’m seeing you in almost every one of these top comment threads being a hater
@@q19q19q19q19 he's trying to seem "different" and trying to say he's intellectually superior than everyone here by critiquing what the majority finds amusing
Wow, what a masterpiece! This is how you make a chair clenching, palm sweating experience. Wow. So clean, so minimal, so perfect. I wish I could find more stuff like this. Well done.
The best part about short films is that I didn’t waste an hour and a half of my life for a feature length version where nothing happens and it predictably rains and she falls without any epilogue.
This feels like it could be a metaphor for a person struggling with addiction each and every moment they’re on the edge of relapsing potentially watching their peers relapse as well. I feel this struggle is depicted very well here.
I actually thought of those other bloody prints as the same person's, to represent their own mental state and stage of addiction.
She's tried to claw her way out before, and each time she's fallen back in (relapsed). The curved wall represents the fragile state of someone in recovery, as they have to work even harder to get through it.
True. Like being a bug that landed on the inside of a pitcher plant.
I thought it was a representation of a life and our inevitable deaths.
Pretty sure I'm depressed.
That is exactly how I feel as I struggle through early recovery.
@@apriladelewhyte Nah it just shows how bafflingly scary smooth surface can be. Even the name CURVE, I am pretty sure nobody ever thought how curves can be scary. Most of us automatically think about women curves 😂😂😂😂 That's what the message here is and why it's captivating. Nobody ever thought of this. Sure we see briefly scenes of struggling to grab onto something but normally there's always something to grab. Not here though.......
I read the analysis and yes this is exactly how depression is. U want to get out but u can't. U want to give up and die ( fall down the abyss) but at the same time u don't want to give up. The suffering , pain , fear and slowly u just go into depression more and more. The curves arent that steep showing that people don't take depression very seriously. U cannot come out until someone helps u. Beautiful movie
this is amazing
That’s a very good pov
instead, depression is something you can overcome. This short film is about trying to get out of something impossible. Theres absolutely no way you will get out of this curve, but there is a way to get out of depression. you keep fighting. some people slip and fall, but its possible to get back on flat land
@@spazzooun_release_d2327 and usually u need someone's help. Like in this case. But yes people can get out themselves too
@@lmao_ok2539 not exactly.
This is death. Everyday struggling through unknowns. Thinking we have a grip on life when in reality, we are all one slip away from death. I think her scream when the rain starts echos her knowing shes going to "die", and after all that pain and struggle and fight to the end. She wants the world to know, if anyones listening, she was here. Its sad cause many ppl fear death. I dont. But i did ask once what that felt like. And I felt immensely sad for those who go through life like that. What a horrible horrible feeling.
It'd need a big curve psycho-analysis about how "this movie is about addiction/depression" comments got tens of thousands of like, and how this correct insight (this is about all our lives because we know we're going to die) got 3 likes only. Since the beginning of humankind people don't want to think about death. They just don't....
I think this film represents the struggle of a person through loneliness. The grey walls are so relatable. There ar times when you feel confined in a box of grey walls, getting ever smaller and you're falling ever lower and there seems to be no end of this torment. Everytime you try to get out, you slide deeper in and every hope seems false. But you can't give up hope and you keep trying. The bloody marks show all the times you tried your best to change the situation but you never got out of the well. It is a representation of loneliness, anxiety and depression. It's brilliant.
for me the most brilliant - or perhaps terrifying - part of this is that, just when she’s getting some hope, just when she’s got her bearings, she notices the blood across from her. someone else has been in her exact situation, and they fell. absolutely harrowing.
Her seeing the other bloody handprints was telling. I noticed that when she moved, more and more prints appeared. I thought maybe there were people falling in that she couldn't see possibly? We could hear their screams and when they hit the bottom. hmmm?
I think it was supposed to be her realizing that no matter how she tried to move, she would inevitably die. Either by falling or of thirst/hunger from being trapped on that ledge. The handprints showed up the more she tried to move and eventually showed that she was going to die.
I looked as if the more prints she made on her side, it mirrored to the other side. I originally thought someone else was in her position at some time before but as they kept showing the other side it got more bloody.
No, i think u didn't understand, for me, the curve in front of her is something like a mirror, more she move, more there was blood prints
It changes though so probably a abstract thing
If I was on that curve, i wouldn’t last 2 seconds lemme tell you, i would flinch upon realizing and fall down the pit immediately
Hella yeassssss me tooo
I would try to stand up to get out and fall.
@𝙱𝚊𝚛𝚔𝚎𝚢 𝙽𝚊𝚊 and that’s why I would fall
Lmao dying , yup same here 🤣😂🤣🤣
Yeah that's right, don't give the demons the satisfaction and die quick. They will get bored if everyone does that and maybe stop killing people lol
Bravo on turning a simple premise into an anxiety-inducing existential nightmare and a universal message on struggle that most to some degree or another will feel. Definitely the most tense nine and a half minutes I've experienced watching something in a long while.
The person wjo acted this was spot on!
I literally got sweaty palms watching this. I could feel everything about this in my bones. The dry stone, the sudden slipping of the feet, her desperate willingness to live, and finally fate and the realization that your very best simply won't be enough. Masterpiece.
yes me too
i dont get the ending though
@@the-w-omen9179 she fell
@@jaseybailey8321 just an assumption
@@oz9034 yes
This is amazing because the entire time you watch this, it makes you feel as if that's you on that curve. You couldn't imagine the amount of times I had to break myself into reality and find that I was safe, at home and in my bed
*hugs*
Im experiencing the same while watching this at 4:14am.
I am on that curve….the movie is symbolic of anxiety and depression….
The Power of the MIND.... RIGHT?
@@philiptucker7590 and fear
Fight or flight
Honestly, if I was in her position, I probably just accept my fate and fall
Me too I would be able to hold on for more than 2 minutes
This is a clear visual representation of addiction/depression.
Whoever wrote or directed this must have had a recent experience with a painful situation. The continuous heavy breathing, the waves of pain coming and going, the intense focus needed to simply exist, the exhaustion...pretty well done.
I’m coming back to this film after a year so I’m not sure my exact words but this film is a representation of depression. It took the directors friend and he’s left us this masterpiece.
Or they've been in pain at least one time in their life.
Or some people are just good at writing horror stories and actually like them.
depression
Yes, the author/director stated this was based on two things 1. He was hit by a car and while lying on the asphalt he remembered his hands feeling the concrete or pavement underneath him, and how he gripped it to brace himself waiting for another car to roll over him (luckily he survived) and 2. He was visiting a depressed friend (maybe in a hospital) who was suffering from severe depression and grieving a loss who explained how he felt like he was on an edge feeling like he would fall (presumably into blackness). So it really is a great analogy to depression (I feel just like the character) and cold hard colorless cement adds to the bleakness of the situation. Definitely great short since it conveys so much in its short time. Great acting. This kind of reminds me of the movie The Platform (2019) if you liked this short try that movie. Only that movie is longer with more characters and movement.
The perfect short horror film. No hope of escape or being saved just pain and blind desperation in the most minimally horrific setting imaginable. This is pure art.
You summed up my thoughts
@@velvetiny7307 كيف وقعت في هذا
If I found myself in such a situation, I would get my mind ready for maybe a minute, then jump down myself.
the fact that you can hear other people falling to their death makes this way more terrifying
Actually it is her own voice. She is hallucinating. You can see where she starts to hallucinate bloody prints in front of her,the other side of the wall. The prints are getting longer and closer to to the very edge and the furthest is a confirmation that she fell because the position of the print is on a straight side of the wall which is straight to bottom. She knew that her death is inevitable and start to hallucinate but her survival instinct as a human pushes her to try and survive. The goddamn rain made it worse. I know it is a movie but it doesnt feel like it. It hits you deeply.
The entire film is horrifying. It is a masterpiece for sure. The fact they made it even more scarier that we dont know how she end up there in the first place and if she fallen or survived. I guess she fell down but how she end up there,i have no idea. Great short film. One of the best if not the best for sure.
@@ashokkumar-zw8vi Well, to me it was like the flowing: It's obviously not her voice because you can hear other's people's death screams until roundabout the middle of the movie. They became less and less. They fully went quiet when the cut was after it started to rain. Everything was quite, no one screaming despite of her. The other people lost it when the rain hit, but she was still "alive", but hallucinating. She was one of the last people that died, because she was a survivor.
@@urlocalthrombosis9601 maybe. I agree with you. It makes sense. I guess it depends on an individual to interpret. It hits the goal. I mean the movie. It is meant to be like that. Scary,vague,questions everywhere,assumption,trauma.. the director obviously wanted us to be questioning things and like it might be this,it might be that, something like that. I dont know how to put it. And hey he got what he wanted. He delivered his message.
But one thing for sure,he will never tell the full story because that ruins the fun in it. It is interesting and memorable if it is a question mark. But if he tells us the story we might forget it and it wont impact us as much as now. Well,sometimes some things will be or should be a mystery forever i guess.
Omg
@@ashokkumar-zw8vi wow
The worst part is that you can imagine it quite well- the smooth, cold concrete, the way you have to lay still without moving, the arch in your back. Every time you move your foot up is a risk of slipping, even though you know it won't gain a hold on the slope. You can't move far back enough to stand or even sit up, and in the end you're fighting a fate that you know will happen.
10/10 great anxiety producer lol
You forgot the ache on that leg itself. I can almost literally feel it and it makes me wanna throw up
@@bernardsoul5186same
Its scary to you cos you are a reckless and carefree person and you dont care about the consequence of your actions cos you are too stupid to imagine that. What I mean is dont engage in harmful activities which might lead you to a similar situation like her. A fast painless death is a good thing but if you get stuck in a life and death situation like her that would be really panful and the scariest moment of your life.
The left leg is in an extremely uncomfortable position, I could literally feel the panic
@@mnlight8308 just think of how the pain sensors would be screaming as the brain recognizes the lack of circulation is about make you loose the leg...*shivers*
I literally screamed every time she got closer to the end..
Junji Ito kind-of situation meets brutalist nightmare.
That was something.
First impressions are that this film is not only about depression but also about the feeling of being stuck. She's there, we don't know how or why. This feeling is omnipresent when you feel stuck in a situation. And she knows she will eventually have to bite it and succumb to her inevitable fate, but keeps clawing at any hope to avoid it. Brilliant film.
Don't know where you got that interpretation from
Great analogy. I never thought of it like a psychological struggle....
gawd. Terrifying.
🤓
I don't know about it being about depression..
@@novustalks7525art is open to whatever meaning makes sense to the viewer numbnuts
I think what really made me think was the fact that the only thing really keeping her from falling completely was her leg that was bent backwards. Also the idea of not having enough grip to actually do anything but enough grip to stay on the ledge is terrifying. Because it brings up those internal questions like “do I just give in and fall” or “do I try to get out” which brings the audience into which I think made me really enjoy this film as a whole. Amazing work 👏
It makes me think of someone dealing with suicidal thoughts, not wanting to become like the percentage, trying harder and harder to survive but it seems like there’s no way out, and living and trying is excruciating
Yeah, this also reminds me of that slanted jail cell with no bars that Tyrion was in at The Aerie in Game of Thrones.
1. Get over to a corner
2. Create friction for hands/feet with clothing or somehow carve notches in the wall as you climb for feet placement.
Small room for error and questionable if even possible but only way to escape
You missed the point impressively.
This was EXTREMELY uncomfortable. Amazingly well done!
I love the depiction of the passing of time. On the other side of her the bloody hand prints build up to show you others who have tried and failed. She was fighting for a lot longer than 10 minutes
She wasn't seeing the blood of others, it was her blood, she was "seeing" her fate
It's up to your interpretation. I interpreted the blood on the other hills as her seeing other people going through the same thing and failing.
@@MaddSpazz2000 you may be right, but I like my interpretation better. It adds more depth to the story. If it's not the blood of others, then we have to assume she fell in on accident, or was dropped in by someone. However if it is the blood of others, then we get to assume someone or something is abducting people/taking prisoners and torturing them this way. Which means you get this story told tens if not hundreds of times. Maybe more. She doesn't really need to see her fate to know what's happening to her. It's painfully obvious just how hopeless escape is. And watching other people struggle right in front of her while attempting the same thing she is, only to fail each time, just strengthens the fact that she isn't getting out alive.
@@MaddSpazz2000exacto... Interpreté lo mismo
@@jexotic1470al principio esas huellas no estaban, ha medida que pasa el tiempo se ve más sangre, quiere decir que es su mente viendo su destino, es lo que la atormenta
The scariest thing about this is not only the fact you can slide down at anytime or not getting out, but it's the mystery on what happens if you slide down accidentally
omg it reached 4.7k
And what's down there is absolutely Darkness and the bottom is what we don't want to see😬🤯😧😰
Turbines, it’s a hydro damn.
Uh...you die?
I think I'll take my chances and fall
@@josellebolden578 if there is a bottom
This was more terrifying than a lot of monster slasher films it had me on edge no pun intended the whole time. Brilliant.
I really love this. Every time something happened, I turned my volume down in fear 😧
this is really intense and i had nightmares like this, if i was in this situation i would just go back to sleep and whatever happen happens lol
Wear Hoodies from H& M and wear 501 Levis Strauss jeans, then no nightmare anymore, buddy
I've had nightnares similar to this as well. Thankfully I'm cognizant of it and I either wake up or develop an ability to get out
@@breathless_siren as i said to wear Hoodies from H& M while sleeping and Levi's Strauss jeans while wake up...no hurt feelings. Comments are comments
No cap I would too
Good luck falling asleep in that comfy looking situation
Loved every detail of this. The slope wasn't steep enough to lose hope, but enough to make you doubt it. The character's ability to figure out the best way to get out, but not quite achieving it. The fact that the top was just reachable - giving another piece of hope. All this just keeps you right on the edge the whole time, even without dialogue or much storyline.
Huh. That’s interesting because I thought the top was very much not reachable. Maybe reachable if you had tools (rope, something to add friction so you could stand on the slope and reach up). But it seemed like even if she was able to stand up, it would be out of reach or only reachable with her fingers.
@@laurenm9203 I thought so too, but if you look at the opening scene where she wakes up, if she could stand she'd be able to jump to the edge and climb out.
so wack of you to copy a comment from a month before. actual weirdo behavior
It's not even about it being steep, it's about it being slippery and absolutely nothing to grab around you. In all movies there is always something to grab in last second, not here yooo not here.
This is an incredibly beautiful representation of the battle of addiction and or depression. It is terrible and everything you do seems to make the situation worse. Beautiful film
This short film is absolutely brilliant. I'm reading a lot of comments relating this film to depression. I'm not entirely certain that I agree with that. I am a man that suffers from depression and high functioning axiety. From personal experience depression is more oppressive, the protagnosis' situation is more hopeless. A lot of sufferers of depression are not looking for salvation or a savior. We of course are looking for solutions but, not a hero. Most people think they're helping but, they're not. People close to sufferers of depression kinda just want you to feel better, feel better because your depression makes them feel uncomfortable. They help because they want you to be normal, the normal, by definition of the normal that makes them less uncomfortable. I've heard many times, "I miss the old you, I'll be glad when you're back to the old you, hurry up and feel better." It's normal for them to feel and react that way, but it doesn't help. Empathy as a concept is different from sympathy. I've never felt hopeless or in need of sympathy, maybe a little understanding and support. whether or not that translate on film as someone throwing me a rope as much as it would to someone enpowering me to climb out of the abyss and lowering a hand if I kept sliding back. Depression is different for everyone I'm assuming, for me, it is a dark hole that I'm sitting indian style in holding onto every ounce of sadness that desperately wants to consume me. I've never felt hopelessness but, I have felt tired. Tired in the sense that I wanted to give up and even though I never felt as if I couldn't climb out of that hole, I was tired of the loop I was in. Falling into that hole and climbing out again. I never felt helpless as I knew I would eventually climb out on my own but, I knew that eventually I could slip and fall back in again and would have to claw my way back out. If I were her, I would have been filled with fear, then resolve, I would have fought to live but, in her situation, there was absolutely no way out. I guess that is what depression feels like for some but, I have never felt fear, sorrow yes, disconnected, definetely and self harm was my plan B for a long time. I like to think that she survived as I have but, man it doesn't look good. Of course, this is just my opinion and it's all relative anyway. What's by definition to me may be different all together for you. Thank you for reading this far. Everyone be safe and however you define it, please be happy. If you are not happy, it's ok to talk to someone. Just know that you are special and wonderful and you have value. You are loved and you do matter and you are important. Take care.
The description refers to a "sentient abyss" that is the dark void below the curves. That means it's alive, aware and able to think. It's like a giant, concrete version of a Pitcher Plant, and the girl is like a hapless insect, trapped inside.
I thought of that, too. Like some kind of terrible sapient architecture, the curves like the Pitcher plant's mouth.
And that ear-splitting metallic screeching- could be a building settling? Or it could be the call of the monstrous abyss below. Hungry.
....
'there is no [Sky] here.... you are Alone.... you shall Drift.
*you shall [Drown] in the [Deep's].'* - a *[Worm],* a *servant* to that *Eldritch [Enemy].*
Tell me you’re an English teacher/English major without telling me that you’re and English teacher/ English major
Cool interpretation
@@CaptainPilipinas that's freaking beautiful 😍 and it is equal to being
Trapped in any way
Even in like a relationship
Acting frightened is not easy. She does such a wonderful job portraying this emotion throughout this entire short. Well done!
Do you know the name of the thing she is on? I forgot.
@@theorignalmartian1261 Spillways.
The fact that every times she puts her hand on the concrete you can hear her hand sizzle a bit
Actually I'm impressed how well the protagonist handles the situation. Staying that focused and kinda calm is not how people are usually displayed in horror movies. Perhaps it shows that even a tough person can't escape eventually. That makes it more horrific tbh.
Agreed, it's rare to see, also love your pfp/username haha
Ok, I didn't know that one sees the name behind the @. I thought just the account name is visible, not my actual name 😂 To be fair I don't know what the ocean waves in the video have to do with the content. Yeah there are the more obvious questions like "how the hell did the protagonist get there?", but seriously, what about the water??
I am not sure how I missed such masterpiece but thanks Sean for bringing me here
same lol
same with me
yeah
same
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Lemme just point out some of the cleverness this film has.
The first part where you see water shots and a person sleeping, makes you had a false sense that this will be another cliche "stranded" beginning. But behold, that 2 second of immediate curve shot really just kicks in the atmosphere.
The sound designs in this are stunning. The way you can feel each and every single of her movements made this feels to tense. And adding a more claustrophobic feeling while being in an open area. It also serves it purpose to make you feel lonely and helpless.
The setting of this film is a megalophobic, and disturbing place to be in. While also being mysterious yet ominous feeling of what's going on. It's so tense, while keeping you thinking but you don't have the time to.
And the ending, of the complete silence after the first droplet of rain, just makes you realized. How f****d up you are.
Just another masterpiece I witnessed, from a short film like these.
I really have to agree with you there! Amazing intense. But I thought it was almost acrophobic like, like you look down into a deep dark abyss, and thats what scares the F outta me. Anyways, amazing film!
@@funtimemai1119 oh yeah, I forgot to mention acrophobic and the fear of heights too(forgot what's its name).
@@dheatlycruvig7520 pretty sure acrophobia IS the fear of heights ;-;
@@zaamin2003 oh really? I must be stupid then.
@@dheatlycruvig7520 Yeah, hehe, your welcome ^^
Not a single line of dialogue, but it had me on edge (no pun intended). She was great.
I mistakenly bought the movie "Curve" believing it was this short film and I was eager to have all my questions answered; how she got there, did she make it out, did help arrive, did she fall and survive? Well done but I would have been satisfied knowing how she got there and what finally happened to her.
Lol
I think this is just the description of a dream. I didn't care for it myself.
The most fucked part about this is that the curve makes you work against yourself. The higher you get, the safer you feel... but the truth is you're only creating distance and potential momentum to slip even harder/further. The curve gets steeper as you go up too, increasing the probability of that slip actually happening. I feel like her seeing more and more blood stains as she climbed reflected that perfectly
Thank You!! Someone smart in these comments man
He need more friction to get up
Stand on the inflection point.
Exactly and there is actually a simply solve for this. All she had to do was scooch over to the wall them shed have a more stable position. Of course even with that theres still the slow agonizing death from starvation or thirst looming ahead.
As someone who is terrified of heights, this sends chills up my spine. Hell to the no. I'd have a heart attack if that was me
You'd die on the spot after waking up with a heart attack😂
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I feel you but for me it's the falling. I don't mind going up, going down is the problem.
Oh god no...
Definitely don't watch Fall then. Felt like my palms could fill a pool the way they were sweating watching that.
This is so terrifying. My palms and feet continued sweating all throughout.
This was an incredible short film. I think the scenario was extremely creative and I like how as the audience can immediately start speculating as to how and why she got here but never get any answers, just her trying to survive.. for some reason 😂❤
What a terrifying story, presented with a minimalist aesthetic and a suffocating and disturbing atmosphere. One of the most impressive shorts I've seen in the horror genre.
There is no story what are you talking about?
Bro doesn’t even know what story means
@@arkham5940right? Some people are still expecting their kindergarten teachers to start with “once upon a time” in order for something to be a “story”
@@devilhorn1and some of you are extremely pretentious. A lot of minimalist art is just bad art because it’s lazy. It gives way too much room for viewers own interpretations and ideas to the point where viewers write their own stories- that’s not good art. One day one of these minimalist artists will finally admit that they were messing with you and that the black dot on the blank canvas was just that. And that then 10 minute long video of nothing truly was just nothing.
@@Maddy-fd2uf that was an awful lot of words just to say “I don’t understand most art so I just assume no one else does, either.”
I always come back to this when I’m really struggling. The director said he spoke with a lot of people who have a mental illness, and it resonates with me so much.
There’s a really sad aspect about it; feeling like there’s no way out (depression), seeing/hearing other people who are in the same position as you not making it (suicide) and life just not giving you a break (the rainstorm).
And I remember being so upset that this ended on a cliffhanger, but I’m realizing it doesn’t matter now if she made it out or not. She kept trying, despite all of the odds seemingly against her…when I feel like giving up, I come back to this film.
I love your interpretation of this film
It didn't end up on a cliffhanger. She fell. Look at the credits.
Its not a cliffhanger. She clearly slippee
There's no way out. The end is always a fall into the abyss. Just like death in life.
@@Ukaran where ?
The last shot, with the rain coming down into the chute, would actually make a great video for going to sleep to...
My favorite kind of art is the one that can be interpreted in many different ways. I can relate this to my experiences, and someone else might relate it to theirs in a completely different but equally valid way
This is the best representation of addiction and/or depression I’ve ever seen.
Progress is grueling. You constantly slip trying to help yourself and do the right thing. Rain comes and it feels like external influences push you down. And even if you get to top of the curve, it feels like an insurmountable wall is right above: real life, living sober.
Very Apt
I also felt that way actually it's easy for her to climb up there the second time when the curve is showed that was her point of view and the curve Is so difficult for her to climb
I’ve been addicted to a few things but never have I felt like I might actually fall into a legitimate pit of death, I don’t feel panicked to the core just because I relapsed on alcohol or some other crap. Totally different feeling for me.
To clarify:
Addiction and it’s components may not be worse than death, but it absolutely feels that way. The pit does not represent death - it represents the horrors that addiction lead us into; the wall the hopelessness of escaping those things. As I’ve heard of addicts(including myself): first we rob others, then we rob ourselves - of emotion, vitality, money, everything.
The pit is not death, because death would be a welcome reprieve for so many of us. The pit is the throes of addiction.
I don’t diminish your understanding of addiction or interpretation.
@@andrewwhitney6787 no I did come off kinda ignorant, I’m sorry. It’s just me personally I’ve never had that certain connection to think on it at that level. My bad for my rude vibes.
This is some of the best horror I've ever seen, just because main character does everything right. She breathes deep, calms herself down, and thinks to her own blood to give traction. She is intelligent and determined and none of it matters because the odds are so stacked against her.
What tf are you talking about. She can literally see that somebody was bleeding and slid down. I'm not even sure how that's supposed to make sense anyway. What, because blood is thicker?
The odds are so stacked against her because an inevitable death takes less creativity than a fight-for-life scenario.
@@dongiano Why are you so angry over people liking this? Have you tried not being a no life incel? lmao
@@dongiano she was hallucinating that
@@dongiano why do you hate this video so much lol
Right?! It's so refreshing when a character doesn't make stupid decisions for the sake of making scary things happen.
What's ironic is that in this scenario it would've made sense to see her panic and slip to her death. Not like when in other movies people split or follow the trail of blood or walk into the woods at night after hearing a scream or seeing red eyes in the darkness.
Bro got 8 million views without saying a letter!
What a masterpiece
The bloody hand/skid marks across the way being the first sign thather predicament is no accident is such a good touch!
At 6:35 you can hear someone fall to their death (I was wearing headphones)…so she’s obviously not alone on this. This must be some type of “saw” torture game she was put into.
BRO SAME your comment needs to be seen more bro this is actually so cool
U should read the description, the scream was surely to show that she wasn't alone in this depiction of depression, that other people suffer too but we can't see them
7:50…
I had to go back and listen, and seems like you hear the body hit the ground 😮
@@krystaln7455 holy crap it does feel like that i re watched this cuz i just watched the movie fall. So its crazy cuz even if u think its water below. Its not
There’s a huge step underneath this curve and it has stairs that lead to the engineering room. She fell at the end but only by just few feet. She landed safely on the step below and now she’s in the main engineers office room having a cup of tea. No need to worry. (For all the poor souls who won’t be able to flush the horror and disturbance out of our system easily like others. No need to worry. Find your comfort in this comment)
someone pin this
i fr love you for this
Weak shit
Nah she definitely dead
Didn't actually need this but i wanted to say thank you for all the people that did
I'm 39 now...I lost my best friend of 35 years last October. We had an incredible bond..I miss him dearly. This film captures the complicated grief of suicide. Very well done.
The best thing i see from it was the build up, the way her hopes are rising everytime she saw the blood from the other curve, and her scream when it started raining. Absolute Perfection! 😫❤️🔥
After watching this, I think the rain is a blessing in disguise. She appears to be stuck in the dam's spillway. If it rains enough, the spillway will open. She would then fall, but the water could potentially cushion her fall. People have survived falling into spillways before, so there is a chance she might survive.
This is absolutely 100% a metaphor, nothing about it should be taken at face value.
In that case the water at the bottom is outside help or simply a change of thought, another metaphor
@ - Ah, well thank you for telling me it was a metaphor. I will ensure that I will discontinue my free thought regarding this to abide by your critical analysis.
There is machinery or something inside the structure, sonce there are strange sounds coming from inside. :0 So I think it's not a spillway.
@@realizedemoneyesbro what
Her acting is insane. Like seriously. Had me want to start crying for her.
one of the scariest parts for me is when she falls,as it leaves us on a cliffhanger thinking,’ whats at the bottom?’ , ‘what happens to her?’
My feet's tingling after watching this 😅
This is one of the most nightmarishly, hopeless scenarios I have ever seen. Pure genius!
It was all over when it started raining .
@@KS-lb1tu lol
Everything that could go wrong. Being severly injured. Not knowing where you are. Wondering what's in the darkness. Realizing that many have an will succum to this. Outside elements working against you. This is terror at its finest. Amazing job.
Just saw this again. Still love it. The utter horror of the unknown and "why is this happening?" Is so good.
Us trying to contact our unconscious self again while simultaneously dealing with the ego and negativity of the world around us.