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Entertainment exclusive trailer park Horror Single WATCH: Somebody’s spying on this sexy single in hookup horror short film ‘SLASHR’
SLASHR, we mean that literally…The first narrative short from queer filmmaker Amir Moini, SLASHR follows a young man named Ashkan (the gorgeous Nathan Mohebbi) as he travels o a mountain cabin, eager to get away from it all after a particularly rough break up.Even as he attempts to get a little “me time” in, Ashkan can’t help but open up the dating apps and scroll through some headless torsos to see what’s around.But after a conversation he strikes up with anonymous guy take a strange turn, Askhan gets the sneaking suspicion he’s not so alone, and his cozy weekend getaway becomes a waking nightmare. Suddenly, “100 feet away” feels like a threat.Moini says his short was made in tribute to the classic slasher films that so many of us love—from When A Stranger Calls to Scream—but with a contemporary, queer twist, examining fears and anxieties all too familiar within the LGBTQ+ community.“Horror has always been a space to process, reflect and synthesize what’s actually happening in the real world,” Moini writes on Instagram of his film, “and this is my interpretation of what our community is currently going through.
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