Damngerous

Xiaotong Zhu

United Kingdom, Scotland / 2025 / Fiction / 9’31”I2600815

Damngerous
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SYNOPSIS

Deb, a timid girl, shares a two-bedroom apartment with her roommate Sansa. One night, Deb comes home to find a pair of unfamiliar men's shoes in the living room and asks Sansa about them, but no one responds. While reading a horror novel in her room, she hears arguing and banging, and goes to check in horror, but is scared off by the door handle turning violently in front of the door, and sees ‘red liquid’ flowing in the doorway, which she mistakenly thinks is a murder. She panics and puts a chair against the door, only to find that she has lost her mobile phone and is completely devastated. The truth is that Sansa and her boyfriend Jesse were watching the game with headphones in their room that night. Because of their emotional state and frequent shouting and slapping of their thighs, they drank the unpalatable tomato juice and threw it into a rubbish bag, which they mistakenly threw out of the door, scaring Deb, who was outside the door, and who ultimately opened the rubbish bag in the bathroom to find that the ‘blood’ was only tomato juice, and that it was all a ridiculous misunderstanding. It's all just a ridiculous misunderstanding. The film builds up a suspenseful atmosphere through black humour, and reverses the situation with a misplaced perspective, presenting the human nature and absurdity behind the fear.

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