Sci-Fi Short Film "Motherly Lovecraft" | DUST | Online Premiere

[@collinblack]

Hey everyone I’m the director of this film! Thank you for watching! Ask me any questions about the film and I’ll answer them below!

[@carrieandretti]

Thank you for your video! I love the short! Great job!!

[@collinblack]

@@carrieandretti thank you so much!!! I’m so glad you like it!

[@88kaa65]

What is the soundtrack artist/song at the end ?

[@paultaylor4923]

Just the right sci fi weirdness for dust. Bravo.

[@RealLifeFinance]

Great Acting by the mother and daughter - could discern so many mixed feelings like a real strained relationship and the mom played her part perfectly.

[@robert-yv2yj]

Thanks. A great horror comedy. Cast were superb. I really liked the nods to the great H.P., and not forgetting Cthulu. Laughed out loud when she gets wrong for swearing as she's about to be sacrificed.

[@mrblaque]

Thank you for showing us what a REAL story story is supposed to have: a beginning, a middle, and an ending. No need to wonder about what happened to get them to this point because the dialogue told us. Moreover, I wasn't left wanting more because all that mattered was her getting away from the monster (the real one and her mother). Thank you for giving us this great short film.

[@dragonback6075]

Absolutely right 👍 this is how it should be done. A complete story ... bravo 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏

[@RealLifeFinance]

Great Acting Especially by the mom. She sold her part perfectly.

[@moshiach1969]

"That's my acquaintance." Nice.

[@aobryon]

what a great dive into family issues with rigid characters yet showing how relief can be achieved by letting things out of your control go once you’ve had help from someone who loves you

[@mikereid1195]

You may not be able to choose your family...but you can damn well choose not to be around them at all.

[@airbender33]

Not bad at all. The mother was a strong character. Good acting. Spooky vibe, nice story 😃

[@WhisperStrikes]

This hit hard. Friends are family. Took me so long to understand that... too fucking long. Great starter after being away from DUST for months

[@kathyinwonderlandl.a.8934]

At least you now know, some never learn🌟

[@Badwolf222]

Short but sweet. Very cool

[@richardainsworth4357]

I love this, thank you so much! Makes me think of my own family. lol

[@GarrettHopkinsMedia]

The door opening at 8:43 feels like og Stranger Things, so strong! I want to say the feeling was nostalgic but that series is only 8 years old. Idk it just scratched the right part of my brain. And the boy scouts hand shake arm grab at 10:17 with the musical score and purple galaxy felt very Marvel, in a good way! And that Monk with the mustache.....!!! I mean can we get Monk Of The Year going at the Oscars! The acting, the chuckling, the way he took that elbow to the ribs, he did his own stunts too?! And the way he floated in space, I mean I don't think Sandra Bullock even floated that well.

[@RealLifeFinance]

What do you mean by scratched the right side of your brain?

[@GarrettHopkinsMedia]

@@RealLifeFinance I’m not meaning like right or left. But like it scratched the part of my brain that needed it.

[@BruceDavidKellock]

Another great one for the archives. Excellent.

[@AreahStar]

I loved that. DUST is my favorite. I could cry.

[@osmia]

Thanks for having CC enabled

[@WyomingGuy82201]

It is true that you can't choose your family, but you sure as hell can walk away and leave them.

[@gregg4600]

Great acting, so much emotional release!

[@mikpitr]

thanks !!! I really enjoyed it ! Now i have to sit down and thik about it :)

[@Failte630]

Thank you for this. Very entertaining.

[@ZolaClyde]

Loved this, great film. Nice ending!🩶

[@thejudgmentalcat]

Great cast, realistic dialog, cool effects 👏

[@Nailnuke]

Well that was different, in a good way! A little bit "Men In Black"

[@hispid1]

great acting by the Squid

[@DaleWheeler]

Very good. Enjoyable!

[@Voldemorten83]

This was awesome!

[@aFrogsWorstNightmare]

Incredible! All of the actresses/actors did an amazing job. This Collin Black guy is gonna take Hollywood by storm in probably like two days.

[@GARVIELOKENXVI]

Good horror mixed with comedy great job !!!! @CollinBlack

[@SteveMuncaster-ji9dw]

Brilliant 👍

[@orlandonievesriveratactico9108]

❤ Sci fi

[@landru27]

True love does make you feel that way, like all is right with the world, like everything is going to be a-okay ... even if there does happen to be a Great One bursting forth from another dimension just down the road.

[@djr1943]

Well done! Great videography. Thanks!

[@earldean4858]

Now that was weird! Bt good

[@DJTheMetalheadMercenary]

Haha that was great

[@taylorblack9822]

This is SICK

[@carolynibis]

Omg! I really loved this short! I felt it had a bit of Stranger Things vibes. The acting was amazing. How long did it take you to film and produce it? What inspired you to write and film this short? You are very talented and I'm am going to check out the other work that you have done.

[@collinblack]

Thank you so much! We filmed it within two weekends in March of 2023 and it was finished February of 2024, (with all the FXs and the edit mostly done by me). Me and the lead actress were the writers on it and it was inspired by my love of 80s horror and sci-fi and Lovecraft, while mixing real accounts from my life. Thank you so much for watching it, this was a crazy labor of love and appreciate these kind comments!

[@christiankelley4145]

😅Great short

[@markduncan992]

👏👏👏

[@bobberndt9744]

Great

[@loganhall5994]

The house this is filmed at is really nice. This Collin Black kid has moxie

[@derrenleepoole]

Nice Shaun of the Dead reference there 9:20

[@quangobaud]

Very good. 🤓🎃

[@heterodoxic]

That was fun!

[@Banerled]

*_Thanx so much for the awesome series._*

[@tyler_peery]

This should have been posted on Alter not Dust imo. 100% awesome!

[@HollyWood-pm3xq]

I enjoyed that. That was intense.

[@lexione14]

Love my DUST! Another good one.

[@TropicalCoder]

Free at last from her overbearing mother

[@mrheisemberg2]

Nice ✌✌✌it might be a good idea to make a movie after the multiverse monster is here

[@Badwolf222]

Religious people can be scary

[@scottmartin7717]

So can secular people. IMO I'd rather have everyone be genuinely religious, at least they have something to fear for their actions on this planet. (I'm not arguing the existence of God or anything, just saying on a macro level)

[@Gotanewcaseofcrabs]

@@scottmartin7717 Why would anyone need to fear in a god in order to, in your words, ‘fear for their actions on this planet’? Have you heard of Secular Humanism? All we care about and live by is embracing human reason, logic, and naturalism, while rejecting religious dogma, which IS ran by fear. Why do you need to be afraid of something in order to be a good person?

[@Wichitan]

@@Gotanewcaseofcrabs The only problem with secular humanism is humans.

[@Gotanewcaseofcrabs]

@@Wichitan for real

[@bigsarge2085]

What's a lil sacrifice between family?

[@ellenlandowski1659]

Nice

[@NewMessage]

Same thing happened to me, but the guy in the closet wasn't an omni-dimensional being. He was just some guy named Rodney.

[@collinblack]

Thank you for telling your story

[@FS-HOT]

Oh that made me laugh - Rodney!

[@rtpoe]

Uh.... They didn't just release the god into the world, did they?

[@newtronix]

I'm sure I recognise the Mum!

[@keshundavis]

Do Acid fantasy Sci-fi short film starring Sheila Ball please 🙏🏾

[@jj2536]

so, she just unleashed Cthulu and his demonic horde on the world and we're meant to be happy?

[@jasoncrawford2664]

Omg c,❤❤😂

[@davidventrella791]

Don't understand the significance of the clock chiming at 40 minutes.

[@bertiesaurus]

Sh no one can read analog anymore

[@zhorn1508]

OMG🤯🤯 IM IN TOTAL AWE🫢 THAT RANKS WITH MY TOP FAVORITES!! THIS WAS DOPE!!🔥🔥🔥🔥CAPTIVATED FROM BEGINNING TILL THE END!! You knew the assignment and came through with a hit💯💯!! Thank you for this!!🙌🏾It was an amazingly put together short film 🎥 I’d say my favorite part but I don’t want to ruin it for anyone!

[@josephstandish599]

If you can get through the first like 3min of kinda forced dialog, the rest is freaking gold, almost every line is a gem, science juice, aspiring ghost whisperer, etc... Can't believe I almost turned it off in the opening car ride.

[@nsjx]

hilarious

[@lightlegion_]

Isn’t it amazing how talented you are?

[@daryl2510]

A great, quirky comedy short...

[@josephstandish599]

Ha! When your mom joins a cult on Facebook...

[@giggiwidit5638]

Love is Love, and True love concurs all ... Even terrifying space Monsters

[@bilwisss]

WWHPLD ?

[@ogmrbiotech]

Love it! Require merch!

[@Badwolf222]

Ty ty Ty

[@quickmythril2398]

6:00 - who would put a cd with no case or sleeve into their pocket...?

[@neilrichardson7454]

Such a thick actress 😅😅😅

[@LoisJackson-z9o]

Constantin Pines

[@DevilTravels]

Excellent acting. Excellent production But the story needed more content. It all happened too fast.

[@CarlosFuentes-fk8md]

Lesbiana ciencia ficción.

[@OpenBiolabsGuy]

As a small scale production on a “ham sandwich” budget, this was okay. It was funny how they kept getting annoyed at her cussing. Like, what does that matter in the grand scheme of things? You’ve got a cosmic horror in your wardrobe! What? Will it melt if I do a rendition of George Carlson’s “words you can’t say on TV”?

[@TheSeriousDadAbides]

Today’s lesson: pride destroys ur world 👍

[@RuthKaren-w1t]

Hamill Motorway

[@ezes.5125]

This is beyond mediocrity, I'm unsuscribing for sure

[@kenmurphy7718]

Thinking about it myself , seen nothing decent for ages , only people going about how good this recent garbage is , 3 strikes and I'm out dust !

[@ezes.5125]

@@kenmurphy7718 a bunch of shills with low standards

[@codypal55]

I’d give it a 3/10.

[@ЕленаХабибутдинова]

Нет субтитров на русском

[@bertiesaurus]

I appreciate creating real lovecraftian horror is deceptively hard, and this is a comedy horror, but even so I don’t think this really hit the mark. The dialogue is fine, although the intro sort of pushes context a bit unnaturally, and it’s pretty cliche heavy, especially with the joke styles E.G: the hooded men also saying don’t swear. The plot conceptually is ok, I would go as far as saying great until the cosmic entity is unleashed, where it kinda then falls from cosmic horror towards a more analog monster in a closet. Regardless of anything else, such as the underlaying family vs friends message, I’d say this could be best improved by better denoting the mental effect a lovecraftian monster has on anything that sees it. She shouldn’t be able to witness something like that, only to then stand with her back to it passively for a minute to confront her mother…. There’s no dread

[@collinblack]

Boo

[@RoySATX]

As a gay person, I'm not sure if this is simple pandering, if it's a case of pandering and copy-cat production, or something worse. What I do know for sure is it contains nothing that elevates Lovecraft lore or the the broader sci-fi genre and therefore is interloping at best, at worst this could be part of the broader attempt at destroying any works made prior to modern liberal social constructs. The latter is what this seems to be attempting with its use of two typical villains; parents and religion. Adding gay characters isn't bad in-and-of itself, we are after all members of society. It becomes toxic if the only reason we are written in is to be a gay character, as if that is all we are, to shove us in the forefront simply to upset people, or to make up for some perceived past harm done to us. If we are going to be taken seriously we need to behave seriously, not go rewriting ourselves inappropriately into past stories but write ourselves into a fresh, new future as productive, serious members of society. So far we aren't doing so well at this, Star Trek Discovery and Star Wars Acolyte are two examples where our inclusion was done so badly it harmed not only those franchises but our acceptance in general. We can and should do better, for ourselves, society at-large, sci-fi, and the future.

[@alexmac66]

Lovecraftian Horror is supposed to make you go insane and usually ends up with your death or insane. Not a true Lovecraftian tale as the lovers get away from the threat....True Lovercraftian horror would have had one or both dying to try save the World and still failing. Made the God look weak. This is more pandering IMO

[@incogneshwari]

Female MC should have worn an undergarment that fit her well. This one was too loose for her.

[@АнтонОрлов-с9э]

Лавкрафт должен вызывать первобытный ужас, а не веселить проклятой повесточкой

[@sammylahiri8965]

Meh

[@abilliongazillion356]

ugh

[@Zero8654]

The acting is real bad in this one.

[@aFrogsWorstNightmare]

Okay poopy pants I’m sure you liked Joker 2

[@Zero8654]

@@aFrogsWorstNightmare Wow, scathing. Bet you've been thinking on that one for days.

[@aFrogsWorstNightmare]

@@Zero8654 I bet you haven’t changed your pooped pants in weeks

[@80fcollins]

Ugh

[@fjdarling]

I love SciFy. Even SciFy with Gay protagonists. Even Funny SciFy with Gay Protagonists. This was just silly, Halloween stuff overloaded with candy corn. Not even funny. Better luck next time. 🤮

[@botond9724]

man... these movise are terrible. I love scifi... i gave a lot of possibility to this channel, but these shorts are just trash in every aspect.

[@batghost7665]

Lesbians included😊

[@batghost7665]

Welcome to the modern world 🌍