Horror Short Film “Home Education” | ALTER

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The scariest moment was when she said bacteria are mammals.

the actor who played the dad killed it

Somewhere in Glasgow England lies a little cottage in the woods, and in the Attic are 2 vacuum sealed corpses and a 95 year old woman reading them poetry waiting for them to wake up from their sleep to congratulate her on passing their test on rot.

Them: “he’ll come back” The dad: anyway I start rotting

SPOILER ALERT: (Just my interpretation) First time I watched I thought the mother was crazy, ruling her household with a narcissistic and obsessive compulsive world view that she projects onto her daughter. However, a second look reveals that the mother is just as much a victim as the daughter. A victim of the father’s constant paranoia and psychosis. Their home is filled with disturbing artwork and grotesque Frankenstein taxidermy projects. A sign on the door demanding to keep it locked, and a glance at a page in his journal reveals a paranoia under which he demands everyone in the house live. He’s taught Rachel many things, like throwing a bone in the forest to see where it leads to, picking up dead pieces of hair and flesh in the forest and holding them to her ear to listen... her father was out of his mind, and clues in the film point to Rachel possessing the same mental illness as her father. She seems to hear and see things that aren’t there, and as the film progresses and the imagery of the millions of bugs crawling gets more and more frenzied, that’s Rachel slowly succumbing to her psychosis. That moment in the woods, staring into the goats dead eye, is the moment her mind left the “in-between” and her inherited insanity rose to the surface. She then goes home and bludgeons her mother, ties her up, vacuum seals her father, and recites a poem about how she found the “in between” in the woods. Even after his death, the father is an ominous presence in the house. The women are afraid of offending him, worried he’s pretending and that he’ll overhear something he doesn’t like and won’t come back. They’re convinced he’s testing them so they must be on their best behavior, doting on him, bringing him gifts and reciting poems and making sure the house is clean to his liking because as the mother says “you know what your father is like”. She is insistent on carrying on as normal and pretending like nothing bad is happening, because that is how her husband has taught her to cope when he becomes violent or insane. And if she follows his rules, he’ll notice and come back. This film is Intuitive and clever and grim, the imagery is spot on but the symbolism is not overbearing. The actress playing the mother is so fantastic she really makes this story what it is. I’m so impressed. Serious dogtooth vibes!!

And that my friends...is how to raise a serial killer

5:01 I just love the little bit of detail where for the book titled "Grammar and Spelling", "Spelling" is spelt as "Speling", further showing how not particularly well educated the family is on top of the other insane things.

i love the casual misinformation that dust and bacteria are mammals

Scariest part: The chicken, cauliflower and those whole eggs weren’t seasoned at all

I always rot a bit to test people around me

The actress who does the crazy abusive mother does a spot on job! Perfect! The clipped words,the shrill voice, and the obsession with cleanliness. Does a very good imitation of the abusive mother.

I feel connected to this short film, it reminds me of when I was home-schooling, there is gaslighting and there is indoctrination and bullying. It takes courage to tell the truth to someone who was in denial. I applauded Rachel for accepting that her father is dead and he is no longer with her.

Mom: "Stop questioning things you know nothing about" SO WHAT'S THE POINT OF QUESTIONING THEN?

That man is going to be bones in a bed and they're still gonna be saying "he'll be back soon" 🤦🏾‍♀️😂😂

Goat: Lays there Girl: “MEEEEH” Goat: “Bich-“

The Actor playing the mother is fucking fantastic, she sold every emotion, especially the denial.

The dad died , mother in denial, teaching her daughter that he would come back if they kept away the bacteria...... Yup... totally bonkers!!

"Stop questioning things you know nothing about" The irony of that statement

i feel like whenever i watch an odd kind of cryptic start of an ALTER short film, my brain automatically thinks to open the comments as the absolute saints in the comments always explain the well thought out plots of the story perfectly. Thank you to ALTER and those amazing people in the comments who explain the amazing storylines and their well thought out and directed short films <3