Short Film: Bite (2024)

What Happens

A dancer walks home from an audition and gets a call from the casting director. “We wanted someone with more ‘bite.’ Maybe next time.” She goes to her studio and practices. She’s not happy with her life, and then the mirror-version of herself starts berating her, too. How will she ever compete with the girl in the mirror?

Commentary

Vampires in movies are always graceful and skilled at everything they do; it’s probably just a matter of having time to practice, right? Maybe she’s not a vampire; it’s not completely clear. I think the vagueness about what Val is detracts a little bit. What exactly happened here? It looks good and is well-filmed, but the story itself is too brief to tell us what’s going on.