"Slaughtered Pigtails"; DV; color; 2:32 (2001)

director, camera, editor: Usama Alshaibi
(w/ Kristie Alshaibi)

"Usama Alshaibi and Kristie Drew(Alshaibi) continue in the slasher vein with their own Slaughtered Pigtails, a hack 'n' slash Friday the 13th style chase scene fragmented down to its sound-bite essentials (Run-Fall-Run-Fall-Turn-Scream-Die-The End). Tactile and frenetic, it achieves startling poetic lyricism when the hyperspeed action is slowed down once the victim is pinned to the ground. It creates a self-conscious empathy for the victim, sadly absent from most splatter films (admittedly enjoyable on their own level)."
- Jeremiah Kipp, filmcritic.com

"Slaughtered Pigtails, besides being the perfect name for some future hard-rock band, is an extremely visceral two-and-a-half minutes of slasher-movie extract."
-Steve Palopoli, metroactive.com

"Slaughtered Pigtails is a cinematically beautiful film with lush lighting. I think the title speaks for itself. It explores violence towards women in a literal way. The acting is great (wow- that girl can really scream!) which makes it all the more uncomfortable."
-Anhoni Patel, sfstation.com

"This flick is very little more than jerk-off material for those guys out there who get their jollies by watching fake snuff vids on the internet. A screaming girl is chased, pinned down and then killed. One little cool thing at the end though, is that this killer seems to have somewhat of a kind streak. Believe it, or not."
-Eric Campos, Film Threat

screenings
:HighSchool Space (Chicago 2004)
Channel 83 festival of media (Florence, Italy 2004)
Exploding Cinema (London 2003)
R&R AV Night at WORM (Rotterdam, Holland 2003)
Microcinema International (HALLOWEIRD program: Paris, Mexico City, New York City, San Francisco, 2002)
Light Plays Tricks Short Film Festival (Kingston, Ontario 2001)

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