Currently on the festival circuit is Bag Lady, from writer/director, author, and action/stunt steward Eric Jacobus. I’ve already screened this a few times a short while back and had the pleasure of writing it up for its presentation at the fourth-annual Big Bad Film Fest, while audiences in Utah are now poised to screen the work for themselves at the sophomore Haymaker Film Fest later this month.
In Bag Lady, written and directed by Eric Jacobus, vagrant and professional drinker Bender (Eric Jacobus) and his delusional, conspiracy-theorizing brother Skee (Phill Kismartoni) stumble upon a pair of weird sunglasses in a dumpster. To Bender’s shock, the glasses reveal a horrifying truth: the local homeless population is being systematically replaced by deadly corporate androids deployed by the mega-contractor Polycorp.
Joined by Mike (Stevie Erwin), a stressed-out corporate security guard whose life is on the line if he loses the glasses, the trio uncovers a suburban replacement program. After waging a chaotic, household-destroying battle against robotic doppelgängers—culminating in a brutal showdown against the ultimate recycling machine, the Bag Lady herself (Thekla Hutyrova)—the heroes must rely on raw grit, trash-sorting distractions, and brotherhood to survive. Featuring a mind-bending introduction by Thekla Hutyrova, Bag Lady blends high-concept sci-fi paranoia with bone-crunching, practical martial arts chaos.
Bag Lady is also due for a feature expansion, which Jacobus got into a little more during our most recent interview which you can read here.
Check out the shortfilm’s teaser which debuted on Friday evening.
