Created by Aaron Yonda and Matt Sloan (working under the name BlameSociety Productions), the very funny short film Life and Death of a Pumpkin is useful lesson on the importance of viewpoint in narrative. The first person voiceover (read in suitably portentous tones by Matt Sloan) gives the filmmakers a way to shine a whole new light (literally as well as figuratively) on a familiar holiday (you can guess which) and an equally familiar genre (low-budget horror films) at once. A delightfully dark four minutes and change, and a reminder to all of us writers that viewpoint choice can make or break a story. Warning: This film is rated CVV (for carved-vegetable violence). And please forgive the ads at the bottom: they are not mine but YouTube's, and I have not yet been able to find the gadget, widget, elf or spell that will remove them.
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