Length: 02:44
Written by Jason Coutinho & Kenan Akbulut. Directed by Kenan Akbulut
Genre: Comedy
Date: 2011
Rating: ★★★★☆
Logline: An office worker falls foul of the mischievous Monday Gremlin who endeavours to throw a spanner in the works at every turn.
This is probably one of the better Reed Competition entries I've watched in a while. There's good comedy to be had on this inventive take on the Monday Blues. A lot is crammed into this so it feels longer than its near three minutes. That isn't a bad thing though, as it provides enough momentum and interest to keep an audience hooked. Some sequences are invariably based on better ideas than others but they are mixed together well so as not to put you off. Without knowing if this was a winner, runner-up or other in the competition, I'm guessing that the end scene possibly put off judges. The indication that the protagonist, played by Danny J Wilson, is going to get murdered by the gremlin, Colin Emerson, does kind of take the tone down a more sinister avenue.
It starts off really well and looks like a professional effort but slightly slides downscale after one minute in (or when the location shifts to someones office basically) and onwards. Sound recording and lighting fail a little as well as a bit of the old shaky camera work as soon as the crew try to work around the small location. With good use of copyright free music, the swap between innocent and devil worshiping classical music adds to the comedy.
The overall idea pulls this film along and is definitely worth a remake by the filmmakers. More attention to location scouting and finessing the gremlin would be starting points if they went ahead.
Best Bit: Pen scribbling gremlin. That bastard.
Worst Bit: Production quality not consistent.
Final thought: [Insert racist joke here]
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