With a runtime of just six minutes, Thawed is brief even for a short film. Yet, it delivers an amusing blend of British dark humor and a less-than-romantic reunion between a woman and her long-dead husband.
The story reveals that the woman spent a considerable amount of money to bring her husband back from the dead-but for selfish and ridiculous reasons, she could only afford to reanimate his head. Reviving the body was too expensive. To make things even more bizarre, she stores the talking head in a breadbox.
Unsurprisingly, the resurrected head isn't thrilled about the arrangement and immediately starts complaining-likely something he often did when he was alive. The plot humorously mirrors everyday married life, with nagging and bickering, but with the eerie twist that one half of the couple is, well... just a head.
While the absurd premise offers some good laughs, Thawed doesn't stand out much beyond that. The acting is average, the characters feel underdeveloped (likely due to the short runtime), and the humor, while enjoyable, never quite soars. Still, the sheer ridiculousness of the situation is enough to make you chuckle.
