

15 minutes. One toxic romance. Zero mercy.
A whirlwind tale of romance, abuse, and revenge.
Acting
Cubello's transformation from prey to predator in compressed time.
Direction
Martin's suffocating intimacy, no room to breathe or look away.
Editing
Ruthless compression — every frame earns its place.
Director
Philip Martin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Philip Martin specializes in economically brutal shorts that pack feature-length emotional devastation into festival-friendly runtimes.
Part of a 2022 wave of British short films confronting domestic abuse with unsparing realism, reflecting post-#MeToo demands for authentic survivor perspectives in genre cinema.