So you’d think a guy who’s done short horror films before might be able to edit wind noise out of his microphones when he’s doing a short film.  But that’s not the case in Behind Closed Doors–the question that remains is, how badly does this affect the enjoyability of the film?  Let’s check it out and see.

When a young lad by the name of Jim finds himself lost beyond all sense and reckoning (how he got lost in the first place is anyone’s guess), he’s left wandering the countryside looking for clues to where he is.  What he finds will be much, much worse than he bargained for.

Worse indeed! It’s only too bad that we have not ONE CLUE just what that something was.  In fact, it seems like Behind Closed Doors will refuse to tell us a LOT of things.  How’d Jim get this abjectly butt-lost in the first place?  What was it that was rattling the closet door?  It’s impossible to spoiler this short in any way because, despite the fact that I’ve just seen it, I have not one clue what actually happened.  All I saw was a string of events that suddenly stopped about five and a half minutes in.

The best part is, you won’t actually care about things like the wind noise because you’re entirely too busy trying to understand what you just watched.

Thus, the Screenhead Ten Scale gives this thoroughly amateurish time waster a two out of ten.  Clearly, they tried, and it actually LOOKED pretty good, but they’ve got to do something about their narrative sense.