A Short Horror Film
COLD FEET
“I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.”
LOGLINE
A woman struggling with intimacy invites her girlfriend over for a sleepover, only to discover there's something much scarier than emotional availability lurking under her bed.
THEMATIC STATEMENT
For me, there’s nothing more anxiety-inducing than having someone in your bedroom. Of all the spaces you live in, that is your true safe space. It contains all the things you love most, the objects and memories that make up who you are. Letting someone into that space means opening yourself up to judgment.
Are you enough as you are? Or will seeing all these scattered pieces of you make the other person realize you don’t measure up?
Normally, we have to deal with that question alone, in the recesses of our minds. But, for Sara, this question manifests as a horrifying creature lurking under her bed. I think that’s the power of horror as a genre. It allows us to take the fears that normally reside only in the pits of our stomachs and make them something we can touch and fight and either overcome or be consumed by.
While Sara may ultimately be subsumed by her own fear, the goal of the film is not to make us all seem doomed. It’s to remind people that if they’re carrying the same fears as Sara, they’re not alone.
- Anna Vecellio (writer, director)
CAST
Cassidy Rose Gyetvan
as
Sara
Elena Heuzé
as
Margo
THE TEAM
Anna Vecellio
Writer, Director
Rachel Weise
Producer
Halee Bernard
Producer
Andi Obarski
Cinematographer
Marian Wood
Production Designer
Jessica Petersen
Editor