

14 minutes, one gun, no easy answers — this short will wreck your whole day.
When a high school misfit is taken hostage by a classmate with a gun, he must find common ground with the shooter in order to survive the perilous standoff.
Acting
Snyder and Ford make every second feel terrifyingly real.
Direction
Sokoloff wrings maximum dread from a single location.
Editing
Tight runtime leaves zero room to exhale.
Director
Max Sokoloff
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released in 2016, this predates mainstream streaming's glut of school-shooting content, making its restraint feel almost radical now.
Sokoloff reportedly wrote it after a lockdown drill — the 'TMDB 0.0' rating ironically reflects how few have seen this buried gem.