Ted Henley lives with his father in their run down motel on a desolate stretch of road. He earns his tiny allowance by collecting the roadkill that litters the highway. But when the motel cash register starts to run dry, Ted turns his attention to collecting bigger game.
Acting
Hale Lytle's dead-eyed politeness chills to bone.
Direction
Macneill makes 11 minutes feel like slow suffocation.
Director
Craig William Macneill
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Macneill expanded this short into the 2015 feature 'The Boy,' with the same motel and deeper Ted lore.
The roadkill-to-murder pipeline mirrors how capitalism trains us to monetize whatever's available—including absence of conscience.
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