And so we go back to the parts of the Halloween Horror Nights short film contest that we actually haven’t covered yet to bring us Do No Harm.

And once again, I’m baffled by the plotline of a Halloween Horror Nights short.  As far as I can tell, a nurse, or possibly a patient, is having some serious post-op hallucination problems.

Look, I know there’s only so much you can do with three, four minutes of video, but surely “make a coherent plotline” isn’t irretrievably far down the list.  I mean, I had no idea what was going on here.  Why did I have no idea what was going on here?  That’s just not right.  I should KNOW what’s going on in a short film.  If a short fails on even that basic level of storytelling, then what’s the point?

The Screenhead Ten Scale, therefore, hands Do No Harm a big old basket of harm in the form of a two out of ten for being a creepy but confused mess.

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