Acting
Gutoskie's blind panic is genuinely distressing.
Direction
Karl squeezes feature-length dread into 12 minutes.
Sound
Every chirp becomes a threat.
Director
Cooper Karl
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Cooper Karl later expanded this short into the 2020 feature 'Sightless' starring Madelaine Petsch, essentially turning his own proof-of-concept into a Netflix thriller.
The parakeet has no official character name in credits, but fans have christened it 'The Only Witness'—it became the film's accidental mascot.
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