Director: Andreas Thelander
Writer: Andreas Thelander
Stars: Alma Cederquist, Daisy Davis, Bo Lyckman
Run Time: 13:13
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTYQT6fSzaE&t=615s
Synopsis
Stockholm. An old homeless man narrates that he’s been chosen, but he doesn’t know why. Every night he keeps people off Priest Street where he is visited by Gerton, a ghost from the 16th century. There’s also a little girl ghost who helps him.
Jonathan, a young man, has gotten locked out of his door as the old man approaches. The old man warns him to get off the street as another man approaches from behind and beats Jonathan to death with his can as the old man looks on.
The old man dranks heavily and looks at a picture of his estranged daughter. He gets a call, and he has to go back outside. He’s obviously in some kind of pain beyond just being old. He collapses and dies before going out.
He stops to look at his reflection in the mirror and seems shocked. The little girl ghost explains that ghosts can’t touch the living, but Gerton was holding the hook when he died. He killed the little girl with the hook. If Gerton drops the hook, he can’t pick it up again. The girl explains that the old man must stop Gerton, or the killings will go on forever.
He returns to Jonathan’s apartment just as Gerton approaches Jonathan’s girlfriend. He runs him off, and Gerton goes away. The girl wants Gerton to kill her, so she can go to the other side and be with Jonathan. Gerton appears and hits the woman, but the old man and little girl confront him. The old man wrestles away Gerton’s hook and he vanishes. The woman is dead and becomes a ghost as well.
All three ghosts vanish.
Commentary
The old man does a good job with it. There’s not a lot of backstory, but we learn all we need to know. The story has a beginning, middle, and ending. The location shots in Stockholm look great, and definitely the kind of place you’d expect to find a sixteenth-century ghost. The first half of the film is subtitled Swedish, but once everyone is dead, they switch to English.
It’s a pretty cool little short, and I definitely recommend it.