Smash Cuts! Super Sci-Fi Shorts Fest

Mar 31, 2001

1h 32m

★ 6.0

Grab your friends and cancel your plans for the Trekkie Convention 'cause you're gonna love this!

Overview

Host Scott Forrest presents a curated compilation of eight independent short films in this rapid-fire science-fiction feature. Genres collide, narratives twist, aesthetics clash, and even humor, both campy and dystopian, showcase the vast creative possibilities of each story's individual world, offering the viewer a brief glimpse into the lives of every character's attempt to survive the otherworldly chaos around them. Released in 2001, the selected shorts span original creation dates of 1997 to 2001; most of the featured filmmakers also appear as themselves in short video interviews to talk about their inspirations, creative process and motivations while working on their individual shorts.

Genres

Science Fiction

Horror

Comedy

Thriller

Production Companies

Winston Davis and Associates

Pyros Pictures, Inc.

Apollo Cinema Distribution Corp.

Big Film Shorts

Hollywood Shorts

Industrial Street Productions

The Asylum

Umbrella Productions

Forerunner Films

THE ConsortiuM

First Rites

tribe

Dublin Productions

Strato Films

DCS Entertainment

Creeping Things

Smash Cuts! Super Sci-Fi Shorts Fest Trailers

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Cast

Host / Self

Scott Forrest

Jane Pogue (segment "Amplifier")

Brigette Morrison

Miranda Pogue (segment "Amplifier")

Jenn Winter

Collector (segment "Amplifier")

George Morris

Doctor (segment "Amplifier")

Richard Baccari

Young Jane (segment "Amplifier")

Brittany Smith

Nurse 1 (segment "Amplifier")

Miriam Erlichman

Nurse 2 (segment "Amplifier")

Irene Spadafora

Nurse 3 (segment "Amplifier")

Rhoda Kopstein

Incomm Agent (segment "Amplifier")

Alec Saidak

Intern (segment "Amplifier")

Chris Allen

Collector's Assoc. 1 (segment "Amplifier")

Gabe Bettio

A failed everyman begins working through pages and pages of questions. As time starts to elongate, he finds himself tormented and isolated. He battles the unknown ultimately transcending into a heightened reality, discovering a new life existing between multiple worlds, both familiar and otherworldly.

5.0

Battle Drone

Mar 1, 2018

6 mercenaries are hired by CIA to abduct an heir to a republic and take out an arms dealer in Moscow. They get a followup mission in Chernobyl. Treason awaits them.

0.0

Burn

May 27, 2017

In the midst of national hysteria and incomprehensible personal tragedy, a child is born bearing the scars of other people's sins.

0.0

Split Me

Jan 9, 2017

When seventeen-year-old aspiring bowler Joey discovers she can't join the over-40s women's team, will oddball and lactose-intolerant Scooter’s friendship be enough to brave this backwater town?

10.0

Rabbit

Dec 25, 2014

No overview available.

0.0

Shy Guys

Oct 17, 2016

Two strangers bravely confront and resolve one of the most terrifying and perplexing scourges to ever afflict mankind… all while standing at neighboring urinals.

0.0

Loaded Deck

Invalid Date

An undercover cop falls in love with his target. When their heist goes wrong and suspicion turns on him, he must prove someone else in the crew is the snitch, or she's going to kill him.

1.0

Painkiller

Dec 31, 2011

Street-smart Dominic's armed robbery of a convenience store goes wrong when he crosses paths with hard-working Jay, a taxi driver with nothing left to lose. Mutual contempt soon turns into a kind of understanding, but not without some pain along the way.

5.7

Skeletons

Jul 16, 2010

In writer-director Nick Whitfield's black indie comedy, a pair of "exorcists" (Ed Gaughan and Andrew Buckley) with the power to rid people of their secrets agree to help a woman (Paprika Steen) whose daughter (Tuppence Middleton) is mute -- and whose husband is missing. Jason Isaacs co-stars as the mysterious Colonel, who seems to be calling the shots from the sidelines of the duo's shadowy enterprise.

6.7

The Cat with Hands

Jun 1, 2001

The story of a cat who, legend has it, longs to become human.

6.6

Gerald McBoing-Boing

Nov 2, 1950

The story of a little boy who would only talk in sound effects. With story by Dr. Seuss (and Bill Scott of Rocky and Bullwinkle fame) this cartoon won the Oscar for best short subject (animated) for 1950.

0.0

Metropolis

Jul 13, 2015

Sixteen-year-old Cyril is a fan of Tecktonik. With the help of his best friend, Justine, he intends to make a video proving that he is the best electro dancer.

7.0

Christmas Comes But Once a Year

Dec 4, 1936

At an orphanage, the children are sad because they received used defective toys as gifts. Professor Grampy sees the children while passing by in his sled and has an idea on how to give them a merry Christmas.

7.3

No Time for Nuts

Oct 23, 2006

Scrat comes across a time machine and is transported to various times all in pursuit of his beloved acorn.

5.0

Sweet Water

Sep 26, 2016

When Earths water is rendered undrinkable by an interstellar gas cloud, a mission is sent to begin extracting liquid water from the moon Enceladus. An ex astronaut must conquer his aqua phobia and let go the darkness within him. The fate of humanity rests on his shoulders.

6.0

Asian Girls

Mar 9, 2018

Chan is a Chinese factory worker who lives alone. Every night, she suffers from horrific nightmares involving the woman in the apartment next door, a Japanese office lady.

6.8

Baby Butch

Aug 14, 1954

An alley cat is foraging for food when he sees Tom's house and decides it's a rich haul. He dresses as a foundling baby and lands on the doorstep. Tom takes him in and Butch proceeds to raid the fridge between Tom's babying him. What he doesn't know is that Jerry's going to grab the ham Butch swiped every chance he gets.

6.8

Casanova Cat

Jan 16, 1951

Tom heads for a big city penthouse to become acquainted with a rich pretty female cat that lives there. He brings her Jerry as a gift and does some humiliating things to Jerry. Jerry, in turn, attracts the attention of another cat who also becomes interested in the female cat. It eventually turns into a fight between Tom and the other cat for the lady's hand but Jerry is the one who gets her in the end.

6.8

The Two Mouseketeers

Mar 15, 1952

Tom, a castle soldier in 16th century France, is assigned to guard the food laid out on a banquet table. Jerry and a smaller mouse companion, two wandering "mouseketeers", make the situation miserable for Tom as they abscond with (and occasionally eat) all the food they can.

6.0

Smitten Kitten

Apr 12, 1952

Tom's in love again, and Jerry's devil conscience reminds him of times this has happened in the past (which, of course, we see, in the form of clips from earlier shorts), and how that's been nothing but trouble for Jerry.