Twelve minutes. One car wash. One bolt from the blue. You'll never hear thunder the same way again.
A young man washes and rinses off his car on his driveway on a cloudy day with thunder being heard. and the man gets struck by lightning
Direction
Cochran stretches dread from nothing. Pure student film audacity.
Sound
That thunder isn't ambiance—it's Chekhov's gun with a twelve-minute fuse.
Director
Stacy Cochran
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
1990 underground cinema was obsessed with suburban banality as horror. This is the genre's mic drop.
Stacy Cochran later directed 'Boys' with Winona Ryder. She never made another short this brutal.
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