Acting
Hale Lytle's cringe-perfect desperation as Dusty.
Direction
Kazman balances gross-out and genuine pathos.
Writing
Dialogue that sounds like actual teens, not movie teens.
Director
Matt Kazman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kazman has called this his 'reverse Carrie' — instead of menstruation as telekinetic trigger, male ejaculation becomes literal death. The film weaponizes the very shame that keeps teen boys silent.
Premiered at Sundance 2016 alongside other 'puberty horror' shorts, part of a wave examining adolescent male sexuality through genre lens rather than raunchy comedy.
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