Short Film Review: It's A Man's World

Kristina Barry | On 21, Sep 2014

Within the first minute of It’s a Man’s World, the audience is bound to be gripping their chairs as they witness such an intense, suspenseful, terror-filled tragedy unfold before their eyes.

An airborne virus has broken out prior to the film’s starting point, taking the lives of women, and only women, turning the unfortunate into flesh-craving zombies.

Explained through amazing illustrations, the audience learns about the past as well as the uniqueness of the virus; where women become man-eaters, literally.

Unfortunately, despite the dreadful situation the world finds itself in, there are always people within society that make it worse.

Flesh Panderers. Considering all the women are infected, men have long since lost their chances of sexual encounters. Flesh Panderers have managed to secure these women in a particular way so they can offer them as sex slaves.

Mark, played by David Breen, has lost his fiancé. His brother-in-law Jono, played by Chris Bartholomew, knows his wife is being held as a sex slave and intends to free her.

This fantastic short film takes the audience through an adventure full of horror, shock and suspense as the two men venture to release Jono’s wife.

Dan Van Werkhoven has created an immaculate score that successfully drives the story’s emotion through subtle cues.

Another standout element is production design. Kind reminders of hopelessness are lightly dabbed around their world, reiterating the bleakness of their predicament. With the film’s slightly saturated colour emphasising this more.

With shots and lighting changes perfectly suiting the situation at hand, It’s a Man’s World shows thoroughly amazing creative thought, helping heighten the quality of the production.

It’s a Man’s World is available for online viewing until the 25 September through Viewster.

This short film will be screening at the Screen It! Film Festival on the Gold Coast on the 27 September.

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Unique zombie film!

It’s a Man’s World shows a different take on the zombie virus, and it works! Great idea for the ‘villains’ and the filmmaking techniques were fantastic.

Short Film Review: It"s A Man"s World