

Your dead mom just slid into your DMs. What could go wrong?
A business executive meets his childhood mother in an anesthesia app, but is she there to help him?
Acting
Noscheze's voice performance—warmth that curdles into something else.
Direction
Osborne packs a feature's worth of unease into 13 minutes.
Director
Jeff Osborne
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Premiered at Fantastic Fest 2023, riding the wave of 'Black Mirror'-adjacent short horror about tech-mediated mourning.
The title's medical meaning—loss of sensation—mirrors Michael's emotional anesthesia, until the ending wrenches him awake.