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NEW ENGLAND PREMIERE
2009, Canada, 86 min.
Director/Screenwriter: Park Bench
Cast: Alex Appel, Conrad Coates, Kristen Holden-Ried, Barbara Radecki, Park Bench
Alice Blue is the new creative intern at Raven Advertising. If you’ve ever had the glorious “opportunity” to work at an internship, you probably have a pretty good idea of what Alice’s job is like. She’s belittled by her coworkers, she’s barely given a chance to contribute, and she’s forced to carry out tedious, menial tasks that a subhumanoid could do.
Sounds like a pretty average day at the office, right? Except there’s something very rotten at Raven Advertising. Alice’s co-workers seem zombified, her boss is strangely menacing, and a pervasive fog of doom and dread hangs over the cubicles.
A group of misfits think something’s up with the management and they want Alice to help them. But Alice is torn between the glamour of the advertising world and her future career and the nagging thought that these kooks just might be right: Alice’s managers just might be vampires. Come to think of it, Alice has been feeling a little different herself.
The vampire genre is pretty hot right now, but the quirky bloodsuckers in Park Bench’s directorial debut are a far cry from the trendy tweens of Twilight. And while we’re talking about contrasts, his advertising agency is a pretty far cry from the glamour of Mad Men too. No, this is much closer to the real world of advertising. Everyone is a douchebag who wants to suck your blood. It’s not a subtle metaphor, but the world of advertising doesn’t speak the language of subtlety.
— Bryan McKay
PLAYING WITH
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Till Martinsen
8 min.
Three employees find themselves in the men’s room during a bank robbery and no one knows quite what to make of the situation.
