It’s ‘I Love Lucy’ Meets ‘Hostel’ In the Short ‘The Mrs. Wolf Show’
Writer/director Drew Highlands is taking a page from classic television for his short film, The Mrs. Wolf Show, described as a cross between I Love Lucy and Hostel.
The short teases: “A friendly housewife, an unsuspecting salesman, and a live studio audience. What could go wrong?”
“On the surface, The Mrs. Wolf Show is a nostalgic dive into 1950s television, evoking the world of I Love Lucy — complete with a catchy theme song, punchy jokes, and a magnetic star who keeps viewers coming back each week. But beneath the surface lurks a violent, desperate fight for survival, one that challenges audiences to reflect on society’s growing desensitization to violence,” Highland explains in his director’s statement.
“This genre film stems from a lifelong fascination with how horror can serve as allegory to illuminate deeper truths,” he adds. “Growing up on reruns of The Twilight Zone and films like The Devil’s Backbone, The People Under the Stairs, Get Out, The Babadook, and It Follows, I came to appreciate horror as a powerful way to explore trauma, race, class, and societal norms.
“From the purity of golden age TV, to the first broadcast of mass violence during the Vietnam War, to the present daily inundation of violent imagery on our phones, The Mrs. Wolf Show asks: how did we become so saturated with the suffering of others that we are no longer spurred to take action? When did we start scrolling past real people in real pain, hiding behind the masks of voyeurism?”
Watch for more info on the short soon.
