HollyShorts 2020 review – Fake movie trailers are fertile (no pun intended) ground for parody. In the new short F*CKING GHOSTS Natalie Lynch and Colin Ferguson play a couple who think they have found the perfect home when in fact it is overun but sexually fixated poltergeists. We get the highlights that any trailer would throw at us allowing for a litany of gags (pun intended) that mostly work.

It all starts so calmly, so idyllic for the young couple and their baby. Soon the white bedsheets are missing and the couple discovers a pair of comically carnal creepers doin’ it in the living room. The jokes are broad ranging from absurd visuals to puns, to the burning question, “Honey, were you eating yogurt on the couch again?” Father  McManus (Ben Morrison) is called in to SEXercise the unwanted beings and again more sex jokes.

I really can’t fault a short that knows exactly what it’s doing and makes a dive, headlong, into silliness. Written, directed, and edited by Jason Cook the movie has that unmistakable movie trailer feel. You know the ones that tell you the entire story while increasing the music and the rapid cuts? The look is down. It is helped Joe Picard’s classic blockbusteresque lensing and over-the-top performances from all in the cast. Yes, even the baby hams it up.

As I said, this is broad, juvenile humor and it tries to be nothing else. A goofball short that goes hard for the laughs without leaving a funny taste in your mouth.

6/10 stars