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Foxes

  • 2011
  • 16m
IMDb RATING
6.2/10
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Foxes (2011)
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DramaHorrorSci-FiShortThriller

A young couple trapped in a remote neighborhood are beckoned by shrieking foxes into their twilight world.A young couple trapped in a remote neighborhood are beckoned by shrieking foxes into their twilight world.A young couple trapped in a remote neighborhood are beckoned by shrieking foxes into their twilight world.

  • Director
    • Lorcan Finnegan
  • Writer
    • Garret Shanley
  • Stars
    • Marie Ruane
    • Tom Vaughan-Lawlor
    • Karen Griffin
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.2/10
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    • Director
      • Lorcan Finnegan
    • Writer
      • Garret Shanley
    • Stars
      • Marie Ruane
      • Tom Vaughan-Lawlor
      • Karen Griffin
    • 9User reviews
    • 3Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 3 wins & 3 nominations total

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    Marie Ruane
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    • Director
      • Lorcan Finnegan
    • Writer
      • Garret Shanley
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    6HadiAriyan07

    Disturbing... in all the right ways

    The cinematography is excellent, the acting, gothic quality is solid. The film is jam-packed with very telling details, but the ending is bad for me, but the options were probably limited given the direction of the story. Certainly worth watching.
    8apass

    Unusual Indictment of Suburban Isolation

    It was thanks to the Big Sur short film festival that I had the chance to see it. A lonely couple appears to be the only inhabitant of a vast new subdivision. The silence is deafening. Humans were not meant to live this way. Psychological malnourishment is their lot, thanks in part to overzealous builders in cahoots with myopic financiers.

    There is no overt commentary on that political slant. But one can easily draw the conclusion. One drawback is a slightly too graphic depiction of amorous activity. I wonder why movies drifted away from off-camera suggestions, towards overt imagery. It seemed so much more tasteful in the classics.
    7S_dot_M_dot

    What Vivarium Should Have Been

    Director Lorcan Finngan delivers a somber tale of isolation set in an abandoned suburban community. The young couple, Maria Ruane and Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, are growing further apart as they try to stay financially afloat.

    The setting and cinematography are fabulous, pulling you into suburbia and trapping you inside. The score is the main drive of this short and plays as its best character. The dialogue is minimal, leaving the viewer to fill in the blanks. This is far from perfect, but a fun little ride.

    This connected with me a lot better than Vivarium, which was remade from this short. At a 16 minute runtime, there is no reason not to gives this little gem a watch.
    8MtnShelby

    Wow

    There is an awful lot going on in these 16 minutes. The cinematography is excellent, the acting solid, and the Gothic quality . . . well done. The film is jam-packed with very telling details . . . the husband's badge pinned to his dull workday uniform, the foxes at the garbage, the marks on the woman's body, the bits of landscape framing the row houses. The housing community is beyond monotonous--it's downright menacing in its straight-jacket sameness. There's an intensity that compels you to keep watching. The ending is a bit hokey for me, but the options were probably limited given the direction of the story. Certainly worth watching.
    6Pjtaylor-96-138044

    Foxy lady.

    'Foxes (2011)' is most successful when it comes to its atmosphere. The short drama-horror focuses on a woman who seems to be drawn to the foxes that hunt through her bins at night, to the increasing detriment of her already unsatisfying home life. It's a well-shot and well-edited affair with a professional aesthetic and, as I mentioned, a strong sense of atmosphere. Its narrative is a bit basic, though, and its payoff isn't as strong as it perhaps needed to be. Plus, its ambiguity feels less like a purposeful decision and more like the result of an uninspired scripting session. Nevertheless, this is a solidly entertaining short film. It's good, just not great. 6/10.

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    • Release date
      • November 12, 2011 (Ireland)
    • Countries of origin
      • Ireland
      • United Kingdom
    • Official site
      • Official site
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
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    • Production companies
      • Lovely Productions
      • Bord Scannán na hÉireann / The Irish Film Board
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      16 minutes
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    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.66 : 1

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