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# Why You Should Watch "The Confined"
- URL: https://www.moviegoingwithbill.com/whyconfined/
- Published: 2023-02-17T05:47:24.000Z
- Updated: 2025-09-27T23:25:34.000Z
- Description: A cutie of a short.
- Author: Bill Arceneaux
- Tags: Reviews, #Migrated-1759014615461, #Import 2025-09-27 18:21

## Dear Moviegoers,

The ideas behind Christopher Picone’s short film [*The Confined*](https://www.facebook.com/theconfinedfilm/) are as beautifully weird and they are vastly interesting. Spooky discoveries are all around, like when a projector appears, screening footage of a tortured character, as he struggles in pain, and in real time. It’s a haunting visual, even if rough around the edges.

*The Confined* is entirely rough around the edges which, while likely not intended as such, grants the film a quality and suggestiveness that belongs wholeheartedly to the passionate and imaginative filmmakers coming up in the world.

I’m reminded of David Lynch’s short *Scissors*, about an unseen group of friends in a movie theater. Creepy and crawly, and full of intrigue. Of course, that was made by a seasoned cinema veteran, but all the same, Lynch and Picone share that special knack for grasping at the fantastical and the ghastly.

Stars the award-winning Thomas J. O’Brien as Landry.

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## Sincerely Yours in Moviegoing,

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