2022
SPEAK NO EVIL
Manners as a trapdoor.
ObsidianTV presents
LOAD
Psychological horror · short · 2026
ALONE
Logline
Alone in a small-town laundromat at midnight,
a woman meets a stranger
who may be more dangerous
than he seems.
Section 02
Look &
feel
Orange neon over the machines, hard fluorescent everywhere else. Nowhere flattering to stand. Nowhere dark enough to hide.
ATMOSPHERE
Neon over fluorescents.
THE WOMAN
Late. Alone. Alert.
THE ROOM
One way in. One way out.
THE ENCOUNTER
Watched from across the room.
Photo credits: reference frames · location scout · dir. Christina Alexandra
The Location
Laundro
mat.
The third character
One room, one night, no way to leave that doesn't go through him.
Orange neon over the machines and hard fluorescent everywhere else, so there is nowhere flattering to stand and nowhere dark enough to hide. The space is the third character.
Interior scout · exterior scout · night exterior
Director's Vision
The scare is not
a monster.
Writer · Director
"The scare in LOAD is not a monster.
It's the twenty seconds where a woman decides whether being rude is worth the risk.
I want the camera to behave like a person walking up behind her, patient and unhurried, and the audience keeps checking the corners anyway.
Writer · Director
Comparables
In the neighborhood of.
2014
THE GUEST
A charming man nobody can bring themselves to be rude to.
2013 short
LIGHTS OUT
The proof-of-concept model. One room, one idea, executed until it lands.