The Gunfighter

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Shorts for Midnight
Old Town Playhouse Thu, Jul 31, 2014 11:59 PM
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Fresh from the warped minds of global short film art masters, these hilarious and seriously strange shorts are worth staying up late for. Eric Kissack (“Missed Connections,” TCFF ‘12) returns to the festival with “The Gunfighter,” in which a bloodthirsty narrator voiced by Nick Offerman (“Parks and Recreation”) tries to set off a shootout in the Wild West; the blackly comic “Happy B-Day” shows how a well-intentioned birthday surprise can go horribly, horribly wrong; “Cruising Electric (1980)” imagines a retro ad for a kids’ toy tie-in to the classic Al Pacino serial-killer movie “Cruising;” and two teddy bears go hunting endangered (and delicious!) creatures in the spectacularly twisted “Unicorn Blood.”
Film Info
Section:Shorts
Release Year:2014
Runtime:9 min.
Production Country:USA
Original Language:English
Cast/Crew Info
Cast:Nick Offerman
Shawn Parsons
Scott Beehner
Eileen O'Connell
Jordan Black
Timothy Brennen
Director:Eric Kissack
Produced by:Sarah Platt
Screenwriter:Kevin Tenglin
Cinematography:Jon Aguirresarobe
Editing By:Eric Kissack
Music By:Paul Thomson

Description

In a small town in the old west, a lone and weary gunfighter enters a saloon. As he walks through the room surrounded by the people of the town, a voice begins narrating the scene, telling us exactly who this gunfighter is. But unlike every classic western to use the narrator trope, the characters in this film can hear the voice. This omniscient narrator quickly begins divulging the deepest, darkest secrets of the people in the saloon. He exposes infidelity, homosexuality, prejudice and even a bit of bestiality. As the story unfolds it becomes evident that the voice is a bloodthirsty bastard that wants nothing more than to see the people of the town kill each other in a needless gunfight.

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