Movie Reviews: Short Films “Night Breakers,” “Unicorn,” and “Bumblebees” (Tribeca Film Festival) – HorrorFuel.com: Reviews, Ratings and Where to Watch the Best Horror Movies & TV Shows

Evening Breakers

Right here’s a creature fraught with suspense not solely from potential monster assaults but in addition from the apprehension and paranoid emotions between characters. A bunch of individuals — chief Joel (Andrew Tarbet), Mei (Chacha Huang), Sunna (Anna Gonzalvo), Trevor (Pol Fernandez), Martin (Marc Padró), and Jacob (Sergi Subirà) — are traversing a darkish path by means of maze-like caves to achieve a metropolis. Every member is sporting strings of vivid lights powered by ever-weakening batteries. These lights fend off vicious beasts however as quickly as somebody’s lights exit, they change into monster chow. As batteries change into extra scarce, tensions rise and the people change into as harmful because the creatures pursuing them. Cowriters/codirectors Gabriel Campoy and Guillem Lafoz have crafted a terrific, tension-filled brief that cries out to be was a function, and their forged members all give top-notch performances. 

Unicorn

Bisexual man Charles (Charles Gould) has organized a first-time assembly with couple Bella (Brianna Baker) and Larry (Patrick Woodall) to probably change into their unicorn — a nonthreatening third to spice issues up within the bed room. This being a horror comedy, the couple has an ulterior motive of the occult type in thoughts for the unsuspecting Charles. Gould cowrote the humorous, creepy, but at occasions poignant screenplay with director Matt Porter. The humor hits, as does the message, because of amusing performances by the three leads in addition to a supporting position from Mike Lane.

Bumblebees

Director Sebastian Sdaigui’s thriller Bumblebees finds a contemporary lady gang dressed up in Nineteen Fifties girl-gang gear on an initiation night time. Billie (Isabella di Rienzo) is the provoke, and she or he should kill a dastardly dude named Duke (Beau Knapp) inside a time restrict or be offed herself by gang chief Cyd (Jackie Cruz) and henchwoman Athena (Millicent Simmonds). Billie is clearly the closest factor to a protagonist within the brief, however whereas lack of again story typically both helps a brief movie or not less than isn’t a hindrance, it’s laborious to root for her or anybody else right here as a result of viewers are unaware of any character motivations aside from the necessity to kill or be killed — which, once more, typically works with out additional clarification, however right here merely leaves viewers with questions. The technical points are all stable, and Sdaigui paces the suspense effectively. The performances are all effective, too, leaning towards a little bit of fifties camp homage with out overdoing it.   

Evening Breakers, Unicorn, and Bumblebees screened as a part of Tribeca Pageant, which befell June 8–19, 2022 in New York Metropolis, with At Dwelling digital content material.