World Premiere – 2026 Beyond Fest Film Festival
Official Selection – 2026 Woodstock Film Festival
Written and Directed by: Julia Kern and Michael Prieto
Starring: Rachel Matthews (Happy Death Day, Happy Death Day 2U), Liv Davenport and Devon Ross
Producers: Zoe Rosenberg
Runtime: 14 minutes, 59 seconds
Sadie is a twenty-something woman, sitting petrified on the bathroom floor. She’s just found out she’s pregnant, which forces her to consider if she would be anything like her own mother…
…It’s a last day of summer like any other: the television plays reruns of classic sitcoms, ten-year-old Sadie bemoans the first day of school, and her mother — whom she calls by her first name, Marge — improvises parental advice in between puffs of cigarettes.
Suddenly, strange sounds emerge from a baby monitor on the table. Marge goes to the basement to take care of it. In all of Sadie’s young life, she’s never dared to open her mother’s door. But, tonight is different. Tonight she opens it. Tonight she discovers her mother is a serial killer…
…But now becoming a mother herself, Sadie suddenly finds herself understanding Marge in a way she never has before.
