Sorority girls messing with the occult? Seems like a horror movie cliché, and indeed this short film leans into the genre in a way that could have seemed lazy, but in actuality works well to get viewers into the right place simply by virtue of familiarity. From here it plays with the viewer a bit before becoming its own beast and delivering some decent tension and scares. The performances match this approach well, playing up 'college girl sexy' with varieties of naïve and alpha within that. The structure allows for delivery of jumps, release, then build again, and when the special effects come, they are really well done and very effective.
It is a genre short, but it is a very good one, that rises above what it appears to be at first.
It is a genre short, but it is a very good one, that rises above what it appears to be at first.