Ah, the joys of a sleepover party with your BFF! “Waffle” is a fun take on the sleepover/slumber party chick-flick film, it’s deliciously dark and a wonderfully amusing short film that leaves you aching for more. With “Waffle” director Carlyn Hudson and writers, Kerry Barker and Katie Marovitch examine how fractured we have become as a society and how we crave affection from others, the film looks at the lengths some people will go in order to gain friendship and the how a seemingly ordinary girls night can quickly escalate into a full-blown nightmare.

The film opens with what appears to be a very normal situation, two young women dressed in pyjamas, sat on the sofa drinking wine. The two women are Kerry (Barker) and the socially awkward, mysteriously orphaned heiress Katie (Marovitch). Already things appear off when Katie gets angry with Kerry for retelling a story incorrectly, and when a timer suddenly goes off it becomes clear that Katie and Kerry are not really friends. Katie is using an ‘Uber-like’ service where she has hired Kerry to be her friend. Continue reading SXSW Exclusive Review: Waffle