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A cheerleader (Danielle Lozeau) gets liquored up while driving home from school and runs over a pedestrian. After dragging the poor schmuck’s body out into the woods and driving home, he starts calling her.

Roadkill is a short film from Timberwolf Entertainment that at 16 minutes long is a drag. The vengeful vehicular manslaughter victim (ala Creepshow 2 and I Know what You Did Last Summer) meets When a Stranger Calls-ish storyline is executed with an unlikable lead in situations lacking any kind of suspense. This is all book-ended by inane conversations between the cheerleader and her boyfriend (writer/director Joe Patnaud). All the while an annoyingly overused organ/choral score thunders over the whole thing.

Technically the film is hit or miss. The camera work by Tim Whitfield is pretty good, offering decent lighting and angles, but overuses red gels when the dead guy shows up. The editing manages a couple of nice visual flourishes but you get the feeling there wasn’t enough coverage for some scenes.

At the end of the day this short offers nothing new or even entertaining to the horror genre but is at least done with a level of competence that some efforts lack. The film can be viewed in its entirety on YouTube at the link below.

Writer/Director: Joe Patnaud
Staring: Danielle Lozeau, Kevin Cirone
Watch Now: http://youtube.com/watch?v=6Llo–9oMCA
Score: * + 1/2 stars.

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