What's Halloween without a little grimly hilarious, emotionally devastating ghost story? Indie filmmakers Luke Barnett and Tanner Thomason delivered this eerily specific quota in full with their beautiful, now viral short film "The Crossing Over Express". The short begs the question, "if you had the opportunity to have one last conversation with a loved one, what would you say?" It does so in fashion that is equally grounded and absurd, and makes for one hell of a short with an emotional gut punch. The idea stemmed from a real-life event from Barnett after an old friend sent him a VHS tape of his late mother. Per variety, Barnett said:“The video really shook me up,” says Barnett. “It took me back to my last conversation with my mom. She was in the hospital, in a coma, and they let me go in one last time.” He was just 17 at the time, and says it ended up being more like a confession. “From talking to people years later, I learned that this is a very common thing,” he says. Barnett began to mull over the idea – what would you do if you could have one last conversation with a loved one? “I felt like if I could incorporate it into a story, it might be a feeling a lot of people can relate to.”Barnett, along with co-writer and co-director (as well as his longtime friend and collaborator) Thomason, were kind enough to go into further detail with us about the...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Yesterday