About the coronavirus quarantine, I stayed home and tried to do the things I had to do, like cleaning the house, writing, reading and watching some movies. Sometimes, because of my office and classroom work, I spend a lot of time away from home and can accumulate a lot of work, I can also put off a lot of fun. So in these few days that have passed, I am trying to catch up.

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One of the things I like to do most is watch short films. Short films, as their name suggests, are short films that can last from one to thirty minutes and have the particularity of being creative, innovative, using different technologies and materials, as well as dealing with less commercial issues. Not to mention, because of their length, you can make a marathon of short films in a day and still have time to do other things.

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One of the short films I've seen and loved is called The Dollmaker, which although it's about dolls, has nothing to do with the film The Dollmaker by director Daniel Petrie, starring Jane Fonda and released in 1984. This short horror film is directed by Al Lougher, lasts approximately 10 minutes and was released in 2017. Its writer is Matias Caruso and it is about a couple grieving the death of their son who visits a doll maker, who has the ability to give life to their dolls. To make a doll with the characteristics of the dead child, the manufacturer asks the couple for certain belongings of the child and a large sum of money. Although the father is suspicious of what the doll maker says, the mother is willing to do anything to get her little boy back. The problem begins with the warnings that the doll maker gives to the parents and which they ignore, making this story a nightmare, a tale of fear, but also of sadness, because we manage to perceive with this story what people are capable of doing to have their loved ones back.

Personally, I think this story has three elements that are effective in any horror story: on the one hand, it plays with the theme of the dead child, which is always so effective; then with toys or dolls, which have always been loaded with magic and mystery; and finally, it has a shocking and unexpected ending that leaves us as if we were puppets without strings. In short, I not only recommend this short film but also invite you to watch others that you will surely find in these days of leisure.