Hoku Uchiyama's Short WHITCH, a Horror Comedy that will Shock You and Make You Laugh: Film Discussion

My guest today is award winning filmmaker Hoku Uchiyama who is a lover of fantasy films, horror and animation. His directing work has garnered tens of millions of online views and has been screened in festivals around the world.

The work has also been featured at the LA County Museum of Art and in a series produced by the Modern Art museum Centre Pompidou of Paris. Hoku broke ground with his award winning music video for Jason Webley and Amanda Palmer's "Have You Seen My Sister Evelyn?"

He and his sometimes directing partner, Adam Bolt, have made a name crafting high energy, fun, technical commercials under the moniker "Hoku & Adam."

Their 2020 music video for Katy Perry's "Harleys in Hawaii" won the Webby People's Voice Award for Best Music Video.

His newest short film, WHITCH is about an intruder who acts strangely familiar and is hell-bent on performing a bloody ritual before midnight.

Ladies and gentlemen, Hoku Uchiayama’s comedy horror short film WHITCH is a delightful watch and it is perfectly balanced between scary horror and downright comedy.

In comedy, it’s not what is said, it’s the pause and the look that delivers and actress Rosemary Hochschild delivers a stellar performance as the wayward witch. For a five minute short film, it truly delivers the shock, the horror, the scare and also the comedy. The best horror comedy short film I have seen this year.

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