The Fifth

Wonderfully inventive horror short. Saw this at Edinburgh's Dead By Dawn film festival where it won the audience award for best short of the week-end. Brilliant script, great acting, really funny.

Basically, it's about a serial killer who turn up to his weekly poker game where all of his buddies know about and just accept his 'job'. A new player at the game (the fifth player) represents the audience point of view/horror as the killer discusses the details of his dreary job as if they were everyday problems.

Got some real 'killer' lines in it. Definitely try and catch this one if you get the chance!

I loved it. Its a dark comedy. Its not for children or for the faint of heart. It doesn't get any darker. It definitely goes as far as you can go with a dark comedy. Definitely R rated. It was VERY funny. I don't want to give anything away, although anyone who looks up this short probably already saw it, but throughout most of the first half I didn't think they would take it all the way, but they did. I appreciate the risky path Ryan Levin took with this film, and personally, I would love to see more filmmakers taking imaginative risks like this one. Its violent, sadistic, dangerously edgy, & hilarious, but lets keep things in perspective, its a comedy, Enjoy it for what it is, A comical exaggeration of what a few guys would put up with to have a fifth.