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| Credits | |
| Title: | "Shredding" |
| Directed by: | Maggie Levin |
| Written by: | Maggie Levin |
| Produced by: | Samuel Zimmerman; Emily Gotto; Nicholas Lazo; Andrew Williams; Matt Bettinelli-Olpin; Tyler Gillett; David Bruckner; Josh Goldbloom; Chad Villella; Brad Miska |
| Music by: | Keeley Bumford Dresage |
| Cinematography: | Alex Choonoo |
| Edited by: | Andy Holton |
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| Released: | September 14th, 2022 |
| Country: | USA |
| Language: | English |
| Navigation | |
| Previous: | "Terror" |
| Next: | "Suicide Bid" |
"Shredding" is a film short featured in the V/H/S film series. It is the first of five vignettes featured in the 2022 film V/H/S/99. It was written and directed by Maggie Levin.
Plot[]
Four young members of an amateur heavy metal band known as R.A.C.K., enjoy the day playing music, riding skateboards and pranking one another; especially drummer Ankur, who does not have a sense of humor, and is often the target of their jokes. The other members of the group, Rachel, Chris, and Kaleb each make fun of Ankur and call him a "pussy".
The group talks about a local tragedy that occurred three years ago to the day on March 5th, 1996. At a local music club called the Colony Underground, an all-female punk band named Bitch Cat were performing when a freak electrical fire broke out, causing all of the attending guests to panic. All four members of Bitch Cat were trampled to death in a stampeded of panicking guests.
The R.A.C.K. members want to break into the closed down Colony Underground to play their own set as some sort of macabre tribute to Bitch Cat. Ankur is very superstitious and does not think that it is a good idea. He is fearful of "Bhuts", a type of ghost in Hindu culture that rise from the dead to attack the living. Rachel, Kaleb, and Chris continue to mock Ankur.
They go to the club and skulk about, finding various oddities that had never been removed. Ankur freaks out when he sees his drum set on the stage. This was yet another prank perpetuated by the other R.A.C.K. members and Ankur is furious. The other three then pretend that they are being possessed just to continue tormenting their bandmate. They find some blow-up sex dolls and pretend that they are the Bitch Cat members, trampling them in a mock re-enactment of the stampede that claimed their lives. As he predicted, the ghosts of the Bitch Cat members materialize as rotting ghouls and attack the other band members. Kaleb is pulled into the air and a fountain of blood rain downs in his place. Ankur uses some spices he nabbed from home as a means of protection and manages to disintegrate one of the attacking bhuts. Rachel and Chris are torn to pieces. The Bitch Cat monsters then reassemble them. Using the dead R.A.C.K. members as human puppets, Bitch Cat goes onstage and has them perform one of their old songs.
Cast[]
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Jesse LaTourette | Rachel |
| Keanush Tafreshi | Ankur |
| Dashiell Derrickson | Chris Carbona |
| Jackson Kelly | Kaleb |
| Tybee Diskin | RC |
| Verona Blue | Deirdre |
| Aminah Nieves | Charissa |
| Kelley Missal | Jessie |
| Melissa Macedo | Jessie Deux |
| Rae Olivier | Rachel's mom |
Notes & Trivia[]
- "Shredding" redirects to this page.
- The title of this short is taken from a guitar playing technique that includes rapid finger movements during solos including harmonic scales, sweep-picked arpeggios, and finger-tapping. It is often associated with the heavy metal genre.
- Director and writer Maggie Levin comes from a rock and roll background. She is also the filmmaker behind the 2017 short Vain: This Party Sucks and the "My Valentine" episode of Into the Dark.
- The band name R.A.C.K. is an acronym for the first names of the band members: Rachel, Ankur, Chris, Kaleb.
- The names of the members of Bitch Cat are RC, Deirdre, Charissa, and Jessie.
See also[]
References[]
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