{"id":3736,"date":"2019-10-14T06:00:02","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T10:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/?p=3736"},"modified":"2019-10-11T11:30:06","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T15:30:06","slug":"dhff-2019-this-is-no-bed-of-wild-roses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/2019\/10\/14\/dhff-2019-this-is-no-bed-of-wild-roses\/","title":{"rendered":"DHFF 2019: This Is No Bed of \u201cWild Roses\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Every day through October, the Department of Tangents brings you the Daily Horror Film Fest \u2013 one short horror film for every day of the month. It might be terrifying, it might be funny. It could be an homage classic monsters or something entirely new. Check back every morning for a new scare as we celebrate horror shorts! <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s DHFF entry is \u201cWild Roses,\u201d written, directed, and shot (or as he calls it in the credits, \u201csoderbghed\u201d) by dQniel Kaufman. If you\u2019re claustrophobic, you may want to sit this one out. All of the action takes place in a small drain pipe, in which our protagonist, Laura Brown, is stuck with a bunch of creepy dolls and her cell phone.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what we know from Laura\u2019s text communication with her father. She is a child psychologist and he is a detective. They are working together and have developed strict search parameters for whatever it is they are looking for. Laura wandered beyond the search radius on a hunch and gotten herself stuck in this pipe or drainage system following a brick tunnel in a burned-out foundation. She passed a fence with wild roses stacked against it, which apparently is a sign she\u2019s dealing with vampires. Dad assures her there is no such thing, but it\u2019s getting harder and harder to believe.   <\/p>\n<p>The exact mission of this father and daughter team is unclear. What would a detective and child psychologist be searching for? And why the anxiety over leaving the defined search area? Questions to ponder while you are waiting for Laura to find her way out or be rescued. The father\/daughter relationship is also nicely drawn in just a few text exchanges. You get a feel for their love and even their senses of humor over the course of just a few minutes. And kudos to whoever designed the set \u2013 it must not be easy to shoot a woman in a drain pipe convincingly and still get a variety of angles. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yaG9qz4M244\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every day through October, the Department of Tangents brings you the Daily Horror Film Fest \u2013 one short horror film for every day&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1422,5,386],"tags":[2357,2431,2432],"class_list":["post-3736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-horror-film-fest","category-horror","category-movies","tag-dhff-2019","tag-dqniel-kaufman","tag-wild-roses"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Wild-Roses-copy.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7lGwW-Yg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3736"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3739,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3736\/revisions\/3739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}