Under Pressure is part of Toronto After Dark’s Canadian Short Film Showcase. It played before The Dark Hour.
Under Pressure starts out as a short film about a family sitting down to watch a movie together but it seems that someone has taped over their family movie with a movie about a boy who accidentally shrinks his mother to microscopic size on Christmas day by fiddling with one of his father’s inventions. Creating a significant divide between father and son, the boy – now grown into a young man – returns to help his father find her once and for all before his father dies of mouth cancer.
This short is pretty inventive but also pretty gross. Well done and fun I would check it out if you can, but not if you have a weak stomach.
