Red Balloon (2010 film)
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Alexis Wajsbrot Damien Mace |
| Produced by | Kerri Trounce Alexis Wajsbrot Damien Mace |
| Written by | Alexis Wajsbrot Damien Mace Jimmy Pinto |
| Starring | Rachel Bright |
| Music by | Martin Macrae |
| Cinematography | Nathaniel Hill |
| Edited by | Chris Hunter |
| Distributed by | Hurricane Production |
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13 minutesute |
| Country | France United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £5000 |
Red Balloon is a 13-minute thriller short film directed by Alexis Wajsbrot and Damien Mace. It is adapted from the "clown statue" urban legend.
The movie was nominated to numerous festivals (including Festival international de Clermont-Ferrand, Palm Springs International ShortFest, Festival International Du Film Fantastique de Gerardmer, Festival De Cannes Short Film Corner. It recently won the Directorial Discovery Award at Rhodes Island Horror film Festival, and was sold to the TV channels Arte TV and Egoist TV.
Red Balloon was released online on Vimeo and Dailymotion on 22 July 2011. It reached more than 100,000 views in a week. Red Balloon has now been seen more than 2 million times with over 1.5 million on this YouTube release.
The directors, Alexis Wajsbrot and Damien Mace are working in post-production visual effects and Red Balloon is their directorial debut. Red Balloon was shot with RedCam 4K, it includes challenging CG shots present in the trailer, with a team of 30 professionals including Jean Clement Soret for the grading (Danny Boyle's colorist).
A young teenage girl named Julie is babysitting a younger child named Dorothy whilst the parents are out by themselves. Dorothy interrupts Julie's phone conversation with her friend, telling her she needs more money and so is babysitting. After hearing the child yell, she comes up to her bedroom and reassures her she has just had a nightmare. In the child's room, a pile of dolls and teddy bears are clearly noticed, including a large patchwork rabbit. Throughout the night, the teenager flicks through random TV channels and paints her nails, obviously bored with her job. A news report is informing viewers of a criminal breaking out of a mental institute, but she ignores the show and nearly falls asleep. She wakes to apparently see a red balloon and too Dorothy next to the sofa, looking terrifying, but realises she has just woken up. Another scream is heard from Dorothy's room, who is now standing up in her bed, pointing at the rabbit from the pile of toys. Julie impatiently tucks her back into bed and tells her she has nothing to be scared of, it is just a doll. Once in the landing, she phones a woman, supposedly Dorothy's mother, to ask whether the girl has had any trouble sleeping before and to question her on why she is so anxious of her toy rabbit. The mother has no idea what she is talking about because Dorothy has never had a large toy rabbit of which Julie has just described. A horrified Julie gasps and struggles to speak, her eyes flickering upstairs as the rabbit in the bedroom shuffles the other smaller toys off. The eyes snap open and it is shown that the "toy" is in fact a human intruder.
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