Filmmaker Statement

The development of Stuck is something personal and thematic for me, since it tells, in an horror key, an experience that I have personally lived. The choice of the trunk is not random as it is associated with a drawer where we put our dreams, thoughts and fears. The choice of the trunk can be also associated to the Pandora’s box, because its hidden content brings mental and physical destruction to the characters. The question that accompanied during the writing process was: “What could happen if everything we desire took an unexpected turn?”. The answer is in the title. STUCK means “stuck physically in a place” like the characters of this short movie. On one side we have Sophia stuck in the house while waiting for her partner, on the other we have the villain stuck in this trunk who embodies the fears and the insecurities of Sophia. However she is mentally stuck because she is afraid of the new beginning that she is gonna to face.