The Chebo
Los Angeles, California | Film Short
Comedy, Horror
Moving in with a significant other comes with many challenges. In Bill's case, living with Lisa means sharing the space with her gleeful helper-creature, Doofles. Spoofing friendly-monster creature features from the '80s/'90s, "The Chebo" explores our bizarre relationship with pets in today's world.
The Chebo
Los Angeles, California | Film Short
Comedy, Horror
2 Campaigns | California, United States
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Moving in with a significant other comes with many challenges. In Bill's case, living with Lisa means sharing the space with her gleeful helper-creature, Doofles. Spoofing friendly-monster creature features from the '80s/'90s, "The Chebo" explores our bizarre relationship with pets in today's world.
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Synopsis: After learning his girlfriend has a helper-pet that's been doing the chores, Bill suspects this "chebo" is up to something more devious than just a little housekeeping.
The Chebo is a darkly irreverent, sendup/sort-of-spoof of family creature features of yore (the 1980's and 90’s). There's Gremlins, starring our famous furry buddy, Gizmo; but the ones I’m more referring to are ones that are more family-friendly:
As a kid of the generation who was the target audience for these movies, part of that experience was accepting them at face value. But what would the not-accepting-at-face-value version of these stories look like?
The Chebo has its leg in the same pool as these films, but stands alone as a modern-day re-contextualization of these styles.
Taking that a little farther, while there's a genuine, idealistic and light-hearted innocence in these family films, The Chebo gets a little twisted. I think it's fun, funny, and revealing to heighten and expose the more innocent elements by juxtaposing them with dark humor.
Though those now-dated, well-meaning family films can be enjoyed today as they were originally intended, I want to look at them from a 2016 vantage point. Rather than dropping a creature called a chebo into the backyard of a family in the suburbs (the setting deemed "normal" then by Hollywood, however appropriate for a lot of us growing up), I wanted to see what would happen if you dropped a similar creature into our new (however subjective) "normal" -- in this case into the home of a "standard" young couple existing in a comically-heightened version of the Youtubing, Wikipedia-ing world of 2016.
So what's a "chebo?"
Exactly.
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Festival Costs
Costs $540
For submitting to festivals and a small consulting fee with Film Festival Secrets.
Location Rental Fee
Costs $200
To be able to offer the residents of our location something for their troubles.
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Synopsis: After learning his girlfriend has a helper-pet that's been doing the chores, Bill suspects this "chebo" is up to something more devious than just a little housekeeping.
The Chebo is a darkly irreverent, sendup/sort-of-spoof of family creature features of yore (the 1980's and 90’s). There's Gremlins, starring our famous furry buddy, Gizmo; but the ones I’m more referring to are ones that are more family-friendly:
As a kid of the generation who was the target audience for these movies, part of that experience was accepting them at face value. But what would the not-accepting-at-face-value version of these stories look like?
The Chebo has its leg in the same pool as these films, but stands alone as a modern-day re-contextualization of these styles.
Taking that a little farther, while there's a genuine, idealistic and light-hearted innocence in these family films, The Chebo gets a little twisted. I think it's fun, funny, and revealing to heighten and expose the more innocent elements by juxtaposing them with dark humor.
Though those now-dated, well-meaning family films can be enjoyed today as they were originally intended, I want to look at them from a 2016 vantage point. Rather than dropping a creature called a chebo into the backyard of a family in the suburbs (the setting deemed "normal" then by Hollywood, however appropriate for a lot of us growing up), I wanted to see what would happen if you dropped a similar creature into our new (however subjective) "normal" -- in this case into the home of a "standard" young couple existing in a comically-heightened version of the Youtubing, Wikipedia-ing world of 2016.
So what's a "chebo?"
Exactly.
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
Festival Costs
Costs $540
For submitting to festivals and a small consulting fee with Film Festival Secrets.
Location Rental Fee
Costs $200
To be able to offer the residents of our location something for their troubles.
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