"Dog Food" is an 18-minute short film from last year. Amanda Seyfried plays the female lead and people who watch "Gotham" will also be familiar with the male lead Cory Michael Smith. Brian Crano, the writer director, and the actor who plays the roommate are not really known. The story is about a butcher who loves his dog. Sadly, the animal gets lost at the very same time the butcher receives threats via mail. A coincidence? One day he meets a beautiful blonde girl who invites him for dinner. Of course, it felt always obvious that he was eating his own dog that day, but I guess Crano felt that would be too easy, so he had to include a handful of final twists, so that people cannot call this predictable. Unfortunately, these twists hurt the film more than they helped it. I would have preferred a different, less subtle ending, and as I already wrote in the title: Predictability does not have to be a bad thing. It really would have been fine if it had all turned out the way we thought it would and the main character realized who these people were. Instead he got turned into a murdering psychopath. The ending hurts the movie, but it does not destroy it. All in all, recommended.
Review of Dog Food
