There's Something in the Bag is an atmospheric short film written and directed by Dylan Volker (The Bad Taste Better), that smoothly blends the crime genre with the supernatural. Due to a complete lack of dialogue, this is literally a film anyone in the world could watch and appreciate.
It is 1971 and two blood stained men (Owen Adams and Hrithik Krishnakumar) arrive in an open-toped Cadillac to the middle of an American desert road. Silently, they pull out what appears to be a body bag and together they carry it off into the desert where someone quite unusual (Tyler Dudley) awaits them.
Eight minutes long, I have to say I do appreciate a quiet movie. There might be no dialogue, but there is plenty of ambient noise of the desert, and noise of the men carrying out their dark task. Not much really happens throughout the short, but there is a good atmosphere, and the simple story goes along fluidly. This looked like an authentic crime drama, the setting and the characters bringing to my mind Breaking Bad, albeit in the 1970s setting. The intersecting with pure horror was unexpected and mostly worked well.
Despite no dialogue, the two protagonists put a lot into their roles, purely from body language and the glances they give each other throughout.
Not much may have happened in There's Something in the Bag, but I liked the story. It was told with some great directing, and a spot-on pacing that meant not a second of this short was wasted. There's Something in the Bag is available to watch on YouTube.
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