A 7-minute Valentine's date that unravels into something you can't unsee.
Jessica is planning for a nice evening picnic for Valentine's Day. As she waits for her boyfriend to arrive, a single red string in the nearby woods catches her attention.
Cinematography
That string glows like it's own character. You'll never trust red again.
Direction
Davis builds dread in 7 minutes that most features can't manage in 90.
Sound
The silence before the snap. Absolute mastery of negative space.
Director
Michael Davis
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Red thread folklore spans Japanese 'akai ito' destiny mythology and Chinese 'yue lao' matchmaking—here weaponized into something predatory.
Michael Davis cast himself as Jake because no actor would agree to the physical demands of the final sequence without knowing exactly what they were getting into.
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