Psychological horror, ‘The Things We Keep,’ screens at Sundance 2025

The 2025 Sundance Film Festival is currently underway right now, and psychological horror, The Things We Keep is an official selection of the Midnight Short Film Program section of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.

When Kate (Rebecca Holopter) receives word her estranged mother (Jenny O’Hara) is unable to take care of herself, she reluctantly returns to pack up her mom’s house and send her to a nursing home. Unfortunately, it’s a big task: her mother has been a hoarder for as long as Kate can remember. As she cleans, her mother warns: bad things will happen if you take away my things. Kate battles her mother’s dementia-driven hostility and uncovers disturbing items underneath the detritus. Specifically: a sinister-looking mold-like mark underneath the wallpaper. As Kate unravels the mystery of her mother’s obsession and illness, she discovers that the hoarding was self-preservation. There is evil in the house’s walls, and they must be covered at all costs. An allegorical tale of inter-generational trauma between mothers and daughters.

The film does a lot in its 15-minute runtime. Most of the time, you will go back and forth on the concept of the horror entity being real or is it madness brought on by the parental trauma and abuse received by the daughter (Holopter) at the hands of the mother? Jenny O’Hara in this short time gives a great performance as the mother. Hat tips to Director/Writer Joanna Fernandez. HF.com says – See it!

Fernandez is a genre writer and director with a BFA from NYU and an MFA from USC, where she earned the Jeffrey Jones Award and Fox Fellowship. Her film SERAPHIM won the Jury Award at the 2023 Austin Film Festival, showcasing her focus on myth, morality, monsters, and scapegoats.

You can catch The Things We Keep  at the these viewing locations and times:

 Tuesday, January 28 at 10:20AM MST – Redstone Cinemas 3, 6030 Market St. Park City Utah 84098

 Tuesday, January 30 at 8:50PM MST – Redstone Cinemas 3, 6030 Market St. Park City Utah 84098

 Friday, January 31 at 9:30PM MST – Broadway Centre Cinema 6, 111 E. Broadway Salt Lake City Utah 84111

 Wednesday, January 29 at 7:00AM PST to Monday, February 3 at 3:55AM PST Online

 The 2025 Sundance Film Festival takes place in person from January 23 to February 2, 2025, in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah, and online from January 30 to February 2.

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