Trunk (2016) 

*** 1/2 (out of 4) 

Sasha (Elizabeth Hower) is in her car when her husband comes on the speaker phone asking what she has done with his mistress. After catching the husband and mistress in bed the wife has thrown her in the trunk and the husband fears she's going to do something drastic.

TRUNK is an extremely well-made, highly entertaining and eventually hilarious short from director Alex J. Mann. Mann co-wrote the screenplay with K. Adam Bloom and there's no question that it's a must see film for those who enjoy shorts. At just three minutes the film certainly doesn't overstay its welcome and the director perfectly builds up the suspense as to what's going to happen to the mistress who finds herself in the trunk. The dialogue really helps build up the "what's going to happen" factor and the payoff was rather hilarious in an oh-so-dark way.

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