Post by billyaanderson on Aug 12, 2019 2:17:03 GMT
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Dr. Kobb and the Case of the Missing Horror Short
Aug 9, 2019 at 2:09am QuotelikePost Options Post by Dr. Kobb on Aug 9, 2019 at 2:09am
Could use some serious film detective help finding an old horror short from possibly as far back as the 1980's. It was called "The Bells of Waiting" and featured only two actors, both African-American. It might have been less than five minutes long. The gist was, the female had been asked to come over by a guy she had broken up with. While there, he repeatedly begs her to stay, while she insists she needs to leave. If I recall, he takes something of hers, and locks himself in the bathroom (or at least shuts the door on her). When she does get the door open, he's there in the bathtub, dead by suicide for an obviously long time. While it might sound contrived now, it knocked me off the chair the first time I saw it. I think it played as a short on the Arts & Entertainment Channel.
Anyway, I only saw it once, and forgot about it for years, until it bubbled to the surface one day and I found a grainy VHS copy of it some glorious individual had uploaded to YouTube. I was basically satisfied seeing it again, and kind of assumed it would be there when I wished to see it again. Checked tonight, and can't find that fucker in the search pages now. I'd make sure I saved it off this time, if someone can locate that g'dang thing for me somewhere on YouTube. Maybe I'm searching wrong. I'm fairly certain that I have the title correct.
signed, Perplexed in P'cola
Dr. Kobb and the Case of the Missing Horror Short
Aug 9, 2019 at 2:09am QuotelikePost Options Post by Dr. Kobb on Aug 9, 2019 at 2:09am
Could use some serious film detective help finding an old horror short from possibly as far back as the 1980's. It was called "The Bells of Waiting" and featured only two actors, both African-American. It might have been less than five minutes long. The gist was, the female had been asked to come over by a guy she had broken up with. While there, he repeatedly begs her to stay, while she insists she needs to leave. If I recall, he takes something of hers, and locks himself in the bathroom (or at least shuts the door on her). When she does get the door open, he's there in the bathtub, dead by suicide for an obviously long time. While it might sound contrived now, it knocked me off the chair the first time I saw it. I think it played as a short on the Arts & Entertainment Channel.
Anyway, I only saw it once, and forgot about it for years, until it bubbled to the surface one day and I found a grainy VHS copy of it some glorious individual had uploaded to YouTube. I was basically satisfied seeing it again, and kind of assumed it would be there when I wished to see it again. Checked tonight, and can't find that fucker in the search pages now. I'd make sure I saved it off this time, if someone can locate that g'dang thing for me somewhere on YouTube. Maybe I'm searching wrong. I'm fairly certain that I have the title correct.
signed, Perplexed in P'cola
