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The Slow Death
A deranged father daughter chamber piece set against the backdrop of a much larger and urgent horror threatening the planet. The Slow Death uses the inspiration of Frankenstein as a jumping off point to explore the concept of denial: be it denial towards the natural inevitability of death; denial of one’s own true inner feelings; or denial of the broader environmental and economic suffering that this mentality perpetuates.
A disturbed woman reanimates her recently deceased father's corpse in a twisted, ambitious experiment intended to save humanity from the ongoing climate crisis.
As a catastrophic heat wave enters its sixth month, countless casualties and power outages follow in its wake. Among the deceased is Penny Galvanson’s father, Frank. Due to the healthy amount of generator fuel in the Galvanson’s possession, a government mandate forces Penny to store Frank in their home freezer for an indefinite time. Unwilling to accept this tragedy, the highly intelligent and determined young woman uses a serum she designed for keeping plants alive and tests it on Frank’s corpse. To her amazement, it works; Frank lives again. But the thing that was once her father is violently unstable, needs to be sedated regularly, and requires a constant supply of the serum to remain living. Undeterred, Penny resolves to see her father return to normal and her experiment succeed: no matter the cost.