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"Horse Girl" is an American English-language live action short film that was released in November 2019, so it is pretty much exactly 3 months old now, which means still new and fresh and may explain why it does not (yet) have 5 votes here on imdb to determmine a ranking. The director is Jack Campise and the script is by Giovanna Zavala. Both weren't filmmaking rookies when they started working on this project, but they are also far from being experienced filmmakers. It seems this one achieved some awards recognition or at least was shown at some festivals. It doesn't say so here on imdb, but before the film began we received this information. Anyway, this is the story of a teenage girl who is really really crazy about horses and loves them dearly. This changes, however, when she has an accident and from that moment on, she despises horses. You can see the consequences of the accident on the photo here. So what does she do? She has a stuffed animal that is a horse and she cuts off the head and in addition to that she also throws away everything else horse-related in her apartment and decides to repaint the wall that has horses depicted on it. But she is still wearing this horse shirt. Luckily for her, there is a kind spirit next to her that will help her understand that hate and anger is never a good solution. He even gets her to return to the stables where the horses are held and she feeds them again, so maybe she will get her appreciation back. The ending was supposed to be sweet and funny with the guy carrying her the way a horse would, so she keeps losing her fear, but to me it was not really effective. Sadly there wasn't a single moment in this movie where I was really on the edge of my seat or curious what is going to happen next. It was probably more because of the script, even if lead actress Kayli Vander Heide did not impress me either. It also seems her character's mom is also played by her real mom judging from the names, but the latter was barely in this film at all. So I personally give it a thumbs-down overall and I must say it dragged more than it should have for barely reaching double-digit territory in terms of the running time. It's never a failure, but I still suggest you skip the watch.