Horror Short Film “Sushi Noh” | ALTER | Online Premiere

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Consigned to the care of her lonely uncle, nine-year-old Ellie encounters a bizarre sushi-vomiting kitchen appliance, triggering an avalanche of vibrant nightmares that seep into reality.

“Sushi Noh” by Jayden Rathsam Hua

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More About “Sushi Noh”:
SUSHI NOH is a colourful and grotesque horror/comedy about nine-year-old Ellie, who is left to spend the weekend with her strange and lonely Uncle Donnie. Desperate to impress his dinner guest, Caroline, Donnie employs the ‘Sushi Noh’ kitchen appliance to prepare dinner for them. The evening takes a sickening turn when Ellie’s nightmares about the appliance, lurking in her subconscious, bleed into reality, twisting the world around her and her Uncle Donnie into something monstrous.

“Sushi Noh” Credits:
Written/Directed by Jayden Rathsam Hua
Produced by Philippa Silva and Jayden Rathsam Hua
Cinematography by Sam Steinle
Production Design by Calum Wilson Austin
Costume Design by Melinda Cluer
Sound by Sam Grimshaw and Sean Doyle
Music by Scott Majidi
Edited by by Gus O’Brien Cavanough

Cast:
Geneva Phan as “Ellie”
Felino Dolloso as “Donnie”
Jodine Muir as “Caroline”
Natasha Cheng as “Infomercial Demonstrator”

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  12. Hmmmm this guy looks exactly like me when I have a migraine and I'm vomiting….I'm all over the place sweating making scary nosies vomiting here and there, wanting to bang my head on the floor…yep definitely me with a migraine

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  17. Wow. I’m left speechless..the director of this is truly a master mind, i don’t even know how but I feel like this film resonated with my childhood in some time of way. The understanding of the behavior in every character and part is absolutely astonishing and truly praise worthy. Thank you for this film.

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  18. This is the weirdest combinations of themes XD I was expecting little girl to get super powers or for the creepy sushi thing to be a weird antihero against the uncle. this thing gives intense nostaglia for the crazy appliances of the 80s and i wasnt even alive then.

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  28. This short film made me feel a lot of feelings. It made me feel nostalgia with that happy opening, and dread when the uncle's abuse became apparent not very long into the film. I felt humor watching the uncle prepare for his date, and more humor to learn about why his date had accepted his dinner invitation. The ability of Ellie to manifest the powers Caroline was encouraging took things in a more psychaedelic and absurd direction, but things got heavy and intense when Caroline was successful in cursing her uncle. I felt terribly sad when the memorized phone number provided no help. The scariest part for me wasn't when Uncle Donnie was menacing Ellie physically, but when he was smashing his masked face into the floor. The emotional subtext of his misbehavior was terrifying, in its own way. Finally, I was rooting for Ellie to make her escape, but waited in anticipation when she answered his calls of apology. I wasn't sure if, perhaps, I was about to see a genuine effort at reconciliation. Sadly, common sense prevailed. Ellie should have used that door while she had the chance.

    In looking at this plot's progresion, it seems like there are no morally pure characters, although Ellie is the least deserving of what she gets.

    Ellie's parents are so focused on their work that they leave Ellie with her uncle, who seems lonely, impoverished, and mentally unwell. This is negligent of Ellie's safety, but also taking advantage of Donnie. It's very telling that, when Ellie calls in the middle of the night, their phone line is unplugged. It's possible that they unplugged it to sleep, but the sense I got was that they never intended to be reachable by Ellie or Donnie. The two of them really were stuck on their own.

    Ellie's uncle is struggling mightily to soothe his loneliness by meeting a woman, but he has no passions except fishing and making sushi. He tries desperately to invite women into his home to eat fish with him, but the only woman who will come over just wants to convert him into what sounds like a cult. He only seems to resent Ellie because he's not able to take care of her. She wants to play with her doll and listen to music, but this distracts him from desperately chopping fish. Later, when Ellie curses him, he starts vomiting up whole fish, as though he is regurgitating his own nature, until he starts worshipping his sushi machine like some sort of strange god. He eventually attaches its mask to his face, then bashes his face in on the floor. I got a curiously self-flagellating vibe from this act of self harm, although Donnie knows how he comes off to others and is desperate to be different than he is. His abuse comes from a place of desperation and self-resentment. It's sad that he couldn't find some of the human connection he needed in safeguarding his niece.

    This woman, Caroline, may be targeting vulnerable people for recruitment to her cult, and she may not appreciate the hard work that must have gone into the enormous tray of homemade sushi Donnie made, but things definitely get weird for her when Donnie responded to her presentation by vomiting up whole rolls of sushi. Every adult in this film, including those not shown onscreen, is in it for themselves, but Caroline deserved nothing worse than a stern reprimand for her insincerity. She thought she was pitching a mental wellness exercise, but she neglected Ellie's significance, and didn't care what she was going to try to manifest. This was problematic, since Ellie succeeded in manifesting something.

    Ellie, finally, never deserved what she got. She was making noise in her uncle's apartment, but for self-entertaining she was behaving pretty well. She wished something terrible on her uncle, but this was after he had destroyed her beloved toy right in front of her. She didn't intend to curse him so seriously, but she followed Caroline's instructions with disastrous results.

    I was hoping for a happy ending, but none of the momentum of this strange story suggested one was coming. Ellie had nobody she could depend on, and her situation was desperate from the start, and only seemed to keep getting worse. I feel like even if she had made it out of those doors, there would have been some new sushi-driven madness causing her more problems outside of that door. Still, the ending suggests that she fell victim to her uncle's abuse and deteriorating state.

    I applaud everyone who had any part in making this film. The end product is heartfelt, wild, imaginative, and bold. It's pretty scary, in the context of what type of fear is really brought to bear here. I felt sad at the end, not because it wasn't a great film but because I felt so much for Ellie's tragic journey. Well done.

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  42. This….i think this is one of the dumbest things I’ve seen. Lol like…I don’t really even have words for how ridiculous and just time wasting this was 🤦🏻‍♀️

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