The Boy Next Door (short film)
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Original title | The Boy Next Door |
Country of production | United States |
original language | English |
Publishing year | 2008 |
length | 14 minutes |
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Director | Gregor Schmidinger |
script | Gregor Schmidinger |
production | Gregor Schmidinger, Theresa Scott |
music | John DeBorde |
camera | Sophia Woodward |
cut | Gregor Schmidinger |
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The Boy Next Door is a short film by the Austrian director Gregor Schmidinger from 2008 .
action
Callboy Mark suffers from anxiety attacks and waits for his customer in the hotel room. The customer's son comes in and looks for his father because he had a nightmare. There is a monster in his room. At first Mark doesn't want to have anything to do with him, but then tries to distract the boy. The two start to romp, play the console and finally fall asleep in bed.
The boy's father comes back to the hotel room and sends his son out immediately. When Mark tries to get dressed, the boy overhears his father telling him that he paid to make Mark his friend - not his son's. But Mark refuses the money and leaves the hotel room. In the hallway, the boy comes to him from the next room and wants to give him his savings so that he can be his friend. Mark refuses the money and explains that he is already his friend. The boy says that Mark shouldn't go - because the monster is still there. But Mark encourages him by saying that the boy has already killed a monster tonight (in relation to himself).
background
Gregor Schmidinger started working on the film during his studies at Bowling Green State University in 2008. In 2009 the film was screened at various festivals and received a lot of attention. The publication on Youtube made it even better known and has so far been viewed over 4,000,000 times.
Web links
- The Boy Next Door in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official homepage (multilingual)