Cynosure - Final Year Student Short Film (2018)
Channel: Toad Echo Productions
Date: 2018-04-18

Final year student film project for Film & Visual Culture at the University of Aberdeen.

Inspired by works such as David Cronenberg's 1983 cerebral horror classic Videodrome, Cynosure is a short film written and directed by Haston Poad. 

Max is a hermit. His best friends are his mobile phone and game console. When Max loses his phone after an unplanned wild night partying his mundane yet comforting routines are dramatically disturbed. After a short period without his phone, Max begins to suffer from withdrawal and is haunted by horrific hallucinations which expose his innermost fears and neuroticism.