The Baxters are pretty much the perfect family, father Henry's (Mark Brombacher) successful in his job, mother Alice's (Hélene Robbie) the perfect homemaker with a passion and a talent for making cookies, and daughter Peyton (Vivien Shepherd) and son Hunter (Preston Norris) are hardly troublemakers given they're in their teens. Of course, such a family just has to have a dark secret, like that Alice is the descendent of a long line of witches, and she puts all her black magic into her cookies that have made her husband a success at what he does in the first place. Problem is, a key element of these cookies is human blood, drawn from a live human, and since humans aren't very likely to give up their blood freely, Henry has to go on the occasional manhunt - and he's good at hiding his tracks ...

These days, Peyton feels her hormones acting up, and when Chad (LJ Beaupré), the coolest guy in school, asks her over, she's overly eager and puts all her efforts into seducing him. Too bad then that Chad has a girlfriend, Casey (Jessica Chin King), whose idea this date was to brutally prank Peyton - a prank that black magic can't make undone all that easily ...

Sure, the idea of the "perfect family" holding a dark secret might not exactly be new anymore, but writer/director/star Mark Brombacher knows how to bring it across with plenty of wit, a definite sense for black humour and also a feel for the horror genre. But what makes this short is that it's not just a punchline-a-minute laughfest but also has a dramatic backbone to make the darker aspects of the story work. And carried by an able cast, the story comes to life rather beautifully and makes for pretty cool genre entertainment.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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