Short Film Review: Fried Barry (2017)

Fried Barry is an award-winning short experimental film written, directed, and produced by Ryan Kruger. Clocking in at just about three and a half minutes, Fried Barry is about a man in a dark abandoned building who decides to shoot up what is seemingly heroin and then has to face the demons that come along with it.
It starts off with a fried egg in a pan, which has been a representation of what you do to yourself when taking this drug for many years and is very fitting. It then cuts to him in the building. After injecting the heroin he goes through a series of odd movements and transformations, some of which are what you would expect, and some not.

There is the normal kind of freaking out that you normally see in film when someone shoots up, but there are also a lot of surrealistic changes that occur that make you feel like you are on the drug while watching it and also provides a sense of what he is experiencing using some normal and psychedelic special effects.

The production in this short is fantastic. For having a runtime of 3:30, Fried Barry really packs a lot into a short amount of time. The cinematography is great. There are a lot of really nice camera shots here. The sound design really ties everything together nicely as well and is crucial to the feel of this film. The sound really compliments the visuals perfectly to create what is a gloomy and psychotic atmosphere. It ranges everywhere from subtle ambiance to shrieking, to the ocean and birds, and back again.

We absolutely loved this short, and if this is any indication of what he is capable of, we hope to see some feature-length horror from Ryan Kruger in the future.

You can find Ryan Kruger here:

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and on his official website: http://ryankruger.co.za/