Mud Crab | Australian Short Film About an Assault on a Young Man 

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This hits hard, my older brother started off as a happy normal teenager then one day after an assault he changed , he started drinking and smoking and then for 7 years straight I endured he’s psychotic ice fueled attacks, I’d be sleeping and wake up to him stabbing he’s way through my bedroom door trying to get in and I remember having to think quickly so I didn’t die… every day from 16 to 22 I had to viciously fight my brother whilst he had the strength of 3 men … life changed for our whole family, he’s since gotten so bad on the drugs that he’s been kidnapped, S.A’ed , tortured everything, he is so messed up and I no longer have contact with him as it’s been 5 years and I still hear the violence and evil words in my head every night…. If I told the whole story it’d be worthy of a short film or even a feature ….. our family used to be normal but one single punch to my brother altered the whole course of our families history… now my little brother is becoming a mini him and I’m fighting in a different way now not physically but emotionally trying to save him from the insanely horrible life our brother lives but unfortunately our older brother has practically raised him the past 5 years so he’s too far gone.. stories like this are so important to tell coz more people are going through this than you could ever imagine! Thank you for making this film !

As a filmmaker this has truly inspired me and I’ve watched it multiple times. Just absolutely beautiful and tragic and relatable

So sad. A bully will never ever understand or care about rhe harm they cause.

Amazing work, rarely been taken off guard like this by a short. Congrats!

I feel like bro could make a killer horror film just from the unsettling vibe from this

Strong piece

Somehow reminds me of Balcony (2015)

Is this based on a true story?

Very David Michod in the VoiceOver. Quite a lot of Animal Kingdom and Crossbow in this. Maybe a little too much. The score is a little pretentious and trying too hard to be melancholy. It's distracting.