I'm having an easy blog weekend due to getting quite drunk with my best friend last Friday. Age certainly makes it harder to recover from things like that! Due to that, I've decided to check out some random short horror films for review. Alex Magaña's Grimace Shake is the first one I chose at random (him being the director of many short horrors, including Serbian Dancing Lady).
Apparently this is based on a real limited time milkshake you can/could get from McDonalds. Anyway, a young woman (Hannah Lauren Scott) has brought her and her boyfriend (Yoni Keynan) one of these milkshakes as a treat. Returning home, with her boyfriend at the gym, she puts his in the fridge, and then takes a sip from hers. It isn't long before she is foaming at the mouth, with a purple fluid flowing out of her as she falls to the ground dead. Later, he boyfriend returns home, doesn't see her corpse, but does find the milkshake in the fridge...
I'm glad this didn't go down the more predictable route that short horror films often seem destined to take. There was no jumpscare ending thankfully, and it became far more far-reaching than I had anticipated. The death scene was amusing, as were the moments when the boyfriend keeps getting interrupted just as he is about to take a sip of the deadly drink. Picking apart the story you could say it is odd how the character returned home before trying her drink, you would assume she would have tried some before that point, but that's just nitpicking.
In terms of the quality this looked great, and the actors were perfectly fine. I felt the actual horror was a bit unexciting, but I did like how this three and a half minute short decided to end things. For some reason this McDonalds drink is appearing in a lot of short horrors lately so is a bit of a random overcrowded sub-genre of horror. Grimace Shake can currently be viewed for free on YouTube.
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