The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon

The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon (2008) is a horror-comedy short you can watch online on iFILM. Director Richard Gale packs ten minutes of deadpan absurdity into the shape of a fake blockbuster trailer.

An ordinary man, played by Paul Clemens, is being hunted. The weapon? A spoon. The killer lands a tap every few days, and the murder threatens to drag on for, well, the rest of the victim's life. A booming voiceover treats the whole thing like a cosmic-stakes epic while the screen shows a guy slowly being poked to death.

The joke lives entirely in the gap between the grand narration and the silliness of the threat. Great for fans of pitch-black comedy and trailer parodies. Stream the short online on iFILM.