The economy, folks, has done very unpleasant things to lots of people for some time now.   So it’s not much of a surprise to see film starting to ape that effect.  Jigsaw’s kidnapping corrupt mortgage brokers and health insurance sleazebags in Saw VI, and now, we’ve got Head Shot Lay Off, a short film that explores one crucial theme:

You don’t have to pay unemployment benefits to the dead.

The difference between this short and real life is that, in real life, first they’d take a huge life insurance policy out on you with quintuple indemnity in the event of murder by head shot.

In this one, though, it’s a slow afternoon at VHS Rewinders Inc, and it’s come time to do some very unpleasant things.  No, not team building exercises–layoffs.    And the chosen method for layoff is a bullet to the head.

It’s a pretty clever little short–granted, it probably would’ve been a bit more exciting if it had been a mass layoff rather than just one guy getting canned, but still, this was pretty funny and fairly well done.  In fact, they’ll even tell you how to do some of the special effects.

The Screenhead Ten Scale hands this fairly well done short a six out of ten for being entertaining but somewhat disappointing.