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Year: 2010Director: Richard PowellCast: Robert Nolan, Peter Higginson, Samantha Nemeth

A seemingly normal day for students and staff at a typical American High School potentially could turn into something much more malevolent as cherubic appearing teacher Richard Dodd secretly seethes with a dangerous, vehement hatred for his daily routine, his co-workers, and his students.

While news stories and films depicting serial killers as your average, everyday nice guy uncomfortably force us to consider who may be living next door to us, Worm has us consider something even more disturbing: whose hands are we leaving the well-being of our children in when we drop them off at the doors of the school building each day? It is a thought-provoking question and is not all that far-fetched, considering the plethora of news reporting in the last few several highlighting teacher indiscretions with students. However, Mr. Dodd's thoughts go beyond the typical sexual...

Directed by: Richard Powell

Produced by: Zach Green

Starring: Robert Nolan, Samantha Nemeth, Dustin Foxman,

We all know that in the career world, teachers tend to get the short end of the stick. They make very little money yet do one of the most important jobs in society--educating those little assholes. Just kidding not all kids are assholes, but lots are. So what happens when those teachers really start cracking? What happens when the person who is suppose to make a difference in our childrens lives, is slowly decaying on the inside? Richard Powell’s independent short film Worm dares to bring us into the mind of one of the most disturbing characters you will ever meet. It is a film that will make you feel truly unsettled, terrified, and secretly thankful that you are no longer in high school.

Worm is the story of an utterly unhappy teacher, Geoffrey Dodd...

Ever since I've updated this blog, I've had the occasion to see short films. Speaking about Richard Powell's Worm, be sure that it manages to beat some feature films when it comes to making an introspection of its leading character.

The short film introduces us to Geoffrey Oswald Dodd (Robert Nolan), a seemingly normal High school teacher. As we spend one day with Geoffrey, we see that something is wrong with him. In fact, while he looks sane on the surface, he has rather dark thoughts in his mind. This means that there are many people around him that Geoffrey doesn't like.

At the beginning, I thought that the short was going to be extremely boring and and that it will only show Geoffrey cultivating dark thoughts just for the sake of it. However, Worm, in the end, turned out to be a clever short film. In fact, the...