set in a strange alternate reality where remote southern swamps are entirely populated by Brooklyn hipsters with trilby hats and bicep tattoos, this short’s-worth-of-plot-stretched-to-feature-length shows a hipster couple living in a big old house in a remote southern swamp, when she suddenly disappears and he begins being visited nightly by an unexplained monster. After she returns, the monster disappears, causing him to be mocked by all their friends until the unexplained monster unexplainedly appears inside the house and attacks him in front of all of them at a dinner party, and he finally kills it, after which he proposes to her, all of which I guess is supposed to mean something, maybe. To stretch this to feature length, we’re treated by very lengthy passages of what hipsters find most entertaining: long conversations working their hipster relationship, and bantering at their hipster dinner party. I do give them credit for not overextending their reach, they stuck to what they knew they could pull off, so it sorta works, in that it’s not an unbearable watch like some hipster indie films, like that one with Sunil Mani. Ooops, did I say that last part out loud?
