Disconnected

2014, 3 minutes

Chilling horror about the ghost of a dead girl haunting her father to suicide.

A festival short about a mid-30's father, Josh, married to Amy, whose daughter, Lila, has recently drowned. Some months after her death, Lila contacts Josh through her toy telephone. Playing on the Josh's guilt over her drowning, Lila pushes him to 'send' Amy to her i.e. kill Amy, so that Lila won't be alone in death. Josh tries to bring himself to do it, egged on by Lila who physically appears, eventually killing himself to escape his torment. The film ends with Amy, returning from Josh's funeral, hearing the toy telephone ringing from a room in her empty house...

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