{"id":3781,"date":"2019-10-21T06:00:53","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T10:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/?p=3781"},"modified":"2019-10-20T19:27:26","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T23:27:26","slug":"dhff-2019-7-rules-to-be-broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/2019\/10\/21\/dhff-2019-7-rules-to-be-broken\/","title":{"rendered":"DHFF 2019: \u201c7 Rules\u201d To Be Broken"},"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 short, written and directed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikecastro.net\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Castro<\/a>, is \u201c7 Rules.\u201d So you know from the start at least one thing that\u2019s going to happen. Someone is going to break a rule. Or two. And since this short is appearing in the Daily Horror Film Fest, you know that\u2019s not going to go well for them. <\/p>\n<p>\u201c7 Rules\u201d updates the gothic trope of someone coming to a foreboding mansion under mysterious circumstances and getting into trouble. Only instead of a mansion, it\u2019s a pretty nice apartment. And the mysterious circumstances include a woman housesitting after answering a blind ad. When she gets to the apartment, no one is there, and there is a set of rules to follow to earn a $200 payment. Don\u2019t lay down on the couch. No visitors. And don\u2019t go into the room at the end of the hall. Simple, right? <\/p>\n<p>I loved the sense of humor in this one. Sarah Heveron-Smith plays easily-tempted house-sitter Michaela. Her character lives mostly in her reactions to the letter and the strange happenings in the apartment, and she gives a fine and playful performance. Samantha Livingston is perfect as the voice of Ms. Maneo, clipped and professional. I also really want to know what the cat looks like, but you have to save something for the sequel. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/My4qfhBkcyo\" 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":3782,"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":[2450,2357,2451,2453,2452],"class_list":["post-3781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-horror-film-fest","category-horror","category-movies","tag-7-rules","tag-dhff-2019","tag-mike-castro","tag-samantha-livingston","tag-sarah-heveron-smith"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/7-Rules-copy.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7lGwW-YZ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3781","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=3781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3783,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3781\/revisions\/3783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}