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In the interest of being completely transparent, I must mention that the producers of ‘Choad Holiday’ are relatives of mine. My sister Amanda and her husband Josh financed this short film themselves, working on it over the last 3 years in their spare time. I actually hadn’t even heard of the piece until I saw it on IFC a few weeks back.

If you’re looking for a film with lots of laughing and screaming, then ‘Choad Holiday’ buttfucks the shit out of both genres. The film opens in the basement of Lee, (played by ‘Extreme Home Makeover’ star Crazy Ham). Through careful use of opening credits, we learn that Lee is accompanied by Beth (newcomer Fuckin Jolie), a spunky bookish type whose library looks turn out to be clever foreshadowing (but more on that later). After some initial banter about the basement, the talk quickly turns sexual, and then just as quickly turns into cackling laughter - lots of it. I was laughing so hard at this point that I literally suffered a severe hernia when Lee suddenly pulled a knife on Beth.

After 4 weeks of physical therapy I was finally able to return to watching ‘Choad Holiday’, and I was not disappointed. As Lee begins to approach Beth with the knife, a dramatic chase scene errupts. The pair, who began their struggle in the basement, suddenly find themselves running up the stairs, into an upper room, an upstairs of sorts. Lee, who has lost his knife, begins choking Beth, actually killing her in the process. Fortunately, unknown to the audience, Beth is an X-Men and in possession of a magical oracle that enables her to regain life by dying. This particular plot twist is never shown to the audience, or even mentioned, but is truly brilliant and not made up.

As Lee begins to realize what is happening you can totally empathize with his character. Crazy Ham has publicly criticized the method school of acting, and in this scene you can see why. With Ham there is no method, only madness. We are snapped back into the room by the welcome return of screaming, and Lee is chased outside only to welcomed by a gang of thugs and monster people who have formed an allegiance with Beth. Lee is dispatched with a single shotgun blast in a scene so grizzly I had to leave the room. This entire scene is played out without music, and the effect is bonechilling.

Complete bias aside, I loved this film from start to finish.
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Title: Choad Holiday
Director: Pubic Bonerballs
Running Time: 2 minutes 26 seconds

Rating: 5 out of 7 Dale Earnhardt heads
Pros: Laughing? Check. Screaming? Double Check.
Cons: The film gave me a debilitating hernia that will require an additional operation to fix.

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