Laboratory Conditions

Terry Rossio is simply a creative genius\mastermind!!! This was an amazing Short! It has some of the top actors\actresses that draw you in and make you want to be there. You will be left want to know more about them, what led them there, and why it has to be discovered.

I even had to watch it a few times.... still wanting more This is one of those rare shorts that makes your mind continue the story... for a time ever after the credits roll What a fantastic storyline with gripping life questions and the overall debate\connection between faith and science.

Please make this into a full length movie!!!!!!

To lend this vapid outing a degree of gravitas, the producers decided to add a British scientist Halloway (Driver) and a nerd with oversize spectacles and baggy cardigan (Costanzo), who took a break from flipping burgers. Despite Holloway's lapidary pronouncement that "Nature does not know extinction, only transformation," none of the actors, Tomei included, show much conviction, perhaps they have their mortgages in mind while digesting an avocado toast. This foray is corny beyond belief. Back in 1972 the BBC broadcast a TV thriller "The Stone Tape," in black-and-white, cardboards sets, available online (DailyMotion): watch it, and compare with this dross.

I stumbled across this on you tube and thought I'd give it a watch, boy was I not disappointed!! This was such a great movie. I was so frustrated that it ended the way it did. I want to watch more. I really hope this can become a full length film, this would truly be one of the great horrors of 2023, it really makes you think about life after death and what happens next, do we have a soul? Is there some evil force waiting to grab us before we make it to somewhere like heaven? Had me in the edge of my seat and I am glad I came across it, please give it a Watch you will not be disappointed. Superb.

Absolutely superb!

If like me the preconditioning of being a guy in 2022 makes you consider stopping after the first guy opens his mouth, I'm begging you, please don't!

This is NOT that kind of film. The characters are all believable, encompassing good/bad, with/without faith, strong/weak with those attributes assigned without an agenda, some skillfully revealed over time.

It's without question one of the best videos - short, long and all points between - I have ever watched, bar none.

I've seen a lot of comments on YT wishing it was a full length feature and I can see their point, I'd certainly watch a director's cut if it added even one scene.

Or a sequel - it could easily go in a couple of directions - but honestly, on its own it is wonderfully, thought provokingly complete.

Full marks!

Saw this at the Napa Valley Film Festival... what a gem! Performances, production design and overall production value rivals that of most feature-films. It's no surprise that the script was written by Terry Rossio (Shrek, Men In Black, Aladdin) as it achieves in 15 mins what most full-length horrors can't muster in 90+ mins: genuine tension, a payoff that doesn't feel forced and a general feeling that you don't know what's going to happen next throughout. It's a testament to the short-film format when star writers and directors make genre shorts, because it shows that the medium isn't just for experimentation - sometimes it's for great ideas that are born to be told quickly and efficiently. Also a big shoutout to the production team on this one who clearly worked their socks off to bring this to fruition, especially wrangling the schedules of two star actors in Marisa Tomei and Minnie Driver (both fantastic) and a team of super talented people behind the camera. Definitely one of the best and highest-quality short-films I've ever seen. Catch it if you can!