A precocious little girl with a peculiar taste in very old horror movies and a bad habit of eating too many cookies from the cutesy porcelain bear cookie jar and then lying about it, makes the mistake of sneaking one out of the new horrifying clown-faced cookie jar that her mother got to try and scare her out of eating too much junk food as well as being a little liar, and soon after little Bree finds herself haunted by the terrifying spirit of the jar, as personified by a monstrous grinning clown that intends to keep her company for a long time! So what I loved the best about this short was the quirky performance of young Ava Jamieson as Bree, she was really cool and funny and unlike most child actors where they are kind of annoying and just there, she comes off like a real character who just happens to be a kid, and for me she really made the whole short work and gave it a bit of a dark comedic tone - a babysitter gets creeped out and a child may be going a little crazy under a malign ghost clown's influence, but it's not at all a grim and nasty type of horror short, in fact I found it bizarrely upbeat! No one dies and there is no gore, and I don't reckon anything bad was going to happen to Bree...as long as she stayed good! They did a damn good job on the design of the jar though, it was seriously creepy-looking, I wouldn't have been able to stand that devilish clown face glaring daggers at me all day, that'd be liable to put anyone off of their cookies for good!! This is a good solid horror comedy short that is very slickly presented, it had a good child actress in it, it wasn't a total downer, and what it lacks in the kind of gory punchline that you will usually get at the end of these kinds of horror shorts, it makes up for with a great sense of spooky fun! So worth checking out and just very well done! π πͺ π
