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The Seventeenth Kind (2014)

The Seventeenth Kind poster
Directed by
Andy Collier
Genre
comedy, science fiction
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
28 min
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A short film where a shopping channel infomercial takes a bizarre turn into science fiction. It mocks late night TV sales pitches with increasingly strange products and unexpected guests.

whimsicalsatiricalabsurdlight-heartedfast-pacedquirkyplayfuloffbeat

What happens

The Seventeenth Kind is a science-fiction comedy short film, an adaptation by director Andy Collier of a short story by Michael Marshall Smith that satirises The Shopping Channel. It stars Tony Curran, Sylvester McCoy, Brian Blessed, Lucy Pinder, Ralph Brown, and Miriam Margolyes. It was released in 2014. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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