Religion plays a funny role in our society today.
On one side we have the almost puritanical religious nutbags who throw a quote from The Bible to front all crimes, and the flip side is those who denounce anything to do with praising any God. I suppose it’s also worth saying that there are people who don’t give a damn either way.
In Mariah Morgenstern’s short Death And, we see an improv television series take on religion that initially looks quite harmless and campy.
After hours the cats wake up with chains around their necks on the stage, it is something that feels like the setup of a Saw trap.
Whoever is trapping them definitely means business as they start shocking the life out of anyone who tries to escape and then things get explosive…
Death And is not afraid to get gory, and its cartoonish level of violence is bound to delight gorehounds.
The biggest message of the film is understanding what improv and tapering expectations of potential disgruntled parties, as you never know who you could tick off.
Death And is such a unique take on a surprisingly unexplored story within a horror context.
Death And screens as part of Soho Horror Film Festival 2023.
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