A couple of newly weds find a girl lying by the side of the road who
dies on them - and out of fear they will be held responsible for her
death, they bury her right on the spot - but not before the girl spits
some green slime into the wife's mouth. The wife soon starts feeling bad,
as if something was inside her, so the husband rings on the next doorbell
in order to get help - and is welcomed by a massage therapist who claims
she has healing hands, but actually, she's a follower of the green slime,
which will eventually transform into a green monster/God, but for the time
being has to be incubated in a series of female hosts, who all die
horrible deaths before long ... as does the wife. The husband, realizing
he's in the lion's den, manages to make an escape - but he escapes anythin
but unscathed. Green State was made as a contribution to the 48
Hour Film Project - meaning the film team was given a genre, a prop, a
story element, a line of dialogue ... and then they had 48 hours to write,
shoot and edit the whole film - and for that the film is pretty good,
inasmuch as it tells an original story with plenty of action and even
simple special effects - but it also shows the limitations of making a
short from start to finish in 48 hours: Everything looks a bit rushed
(which it probably was), and the movie definitely could have done with a
couple more shooting days to grant for smoother cinematography and edit -
but for what it is, namely an entry for the 48 Hour Film Project,
it is pretty good, really.
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