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Must Watch: Jason Eisener's Amazing Treevenge Short Film

by Alex Billington
July 13, 2009
Source: Twitch

This is the short film you've all been waiting to see (or I hope)! I first saw Treevenge at Sundance earlier this year in front of the Nazi zombie movie Dead Snow. In retrospect, Treevenge was far superior to Dead Snow, as you're about to see, and is quite possibly one of the greatest horror short films ever made. So what the heck is Treevenge about? Essentially it's about what if all the tress we cut down every year for Christmas finally got revenge on us. Director Jason Eisener deserves some major props for making such an awesome short film and thanks to Twitch you can finally watch the full thing online. Definitely check this short out!

Warning: This gets very gory near the end, and I don't think it's safe to watch at work or otherwise. I'm so glad this finally ended up online! It's very rare that I go out of my way to feature a short film like this but Treevenge deserves it. It was the perfect way to end a long day in snow Park City and I haven't forgotten that night since. I even got to chat with Jason Eisener and the rest of the Treevenge crew as well. I love how terribly ruthless and evil he makes the humans look in this - so hilarious! If you dug this short as much as I did, you can find more details, contact, t-shirts, and more over on the official website: treevenge.com.

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Jason

Good for a Low Budget Canadian Movie, where all the props were bought from Canadian Tire.
motherboy69

the baby head bash in the end makes this piece of crap worth watching!!! hahahaha!!!
K

WOW! Some people have quite the imagination! J-Roc rules!
link1983

This has potential. . . . . . . . . Just not in it's current state. Funny as F**K though!
grendel

And they say Dead Poet's Society is a waste of time. This is totally lame.
nocsyn

that was pretty awesome...thanks for posting this
Jill

Now I know why I have a fake tree for Christmas That was brilliant!! But didn't some of the trees sound just like Ewoks?!
Jevon

Love the Cannibal Holocaust theme in the beginning.
http://www.thegeekcouch.com geekcouch

So.....this is kind of like The Happening.....only good?
Fercho

JAJAJAJ...At least it's better than Shyamalan's "The Happening"...these trees rocks!
NeoN

Dont know what you guys are on about, that was brilliant!
Django

That could be the single greatest movie I have ever seen. Except that "Italian Spider Man" is still way better! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhHhXukovMU
Cody

BAHAHAHA...omg this honestly just made my morning. You didnt think theyd go as far as to show the babys death but they did....o they did.
http://erikkeating.blogspot.com erik

i thought the tree would have spared the baby but it didnt and i lololol'd. humans are such dicks,i liked this.
RPH

This is one of the best movies I have ever seen!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have wanted to see children killed in a movie for so long!!!!
Florian

CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST MUSIC!!!
Dan W

Yea that was pretty good. The song at the beginning and the end made the movie for me. And so did the baby smash at the end
Greekgod

.....no tree this year
sumonesumtime

That was garbage! Tree POV shot? Gimme a fuckin break.
vyperstryke

Makes me glad for that artificial tree I have. The music is so 70's slasher film. I loved this! The baby was the best!
Trey

Personally I thought it was garbage...it was hard just watching the first 5 mins
cheeseteddy

This is the same guy that made HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN - (http://www.hobowithashotgun.com/) Pure Genius!!!
whomever

I like the Ewok sounds, and "No, this is Christmas, all I want is to fuck!"
He tries so hard...

Ewoks are so crazy bastards! They get violent along with those dolphins. IT took too long though...i got bored as they put on decorations. A bit shorter I would have been into it. I loved the beginning though.
Syphous

This... is... BRILLIANT!
NadaNuff

This was actually pretty funny. The first kill was the best. I could have lived without the baby kill, except that it was an obvious parallel to the sapling stomp earlier in the film, which made it funny.
Pyke!

Awesome! Can't wait for Hobo With a Shotgun feature!!!
http://www.barnabybarrilla.com Barnaby Barrilla

That was freaking funny as hell. I loved it.
Movieraider321

Seriously hilarious. Brilliantly done with the whole 70's montra. It was great.
Bucker

way to rep nova scotia! I also enjoyed Jonathan Torrens and Sarah Dunsworth from the Trailer Park Boys showing up.
Kevin

What movies have you made lately #19? You seem like a douche.
Jesse Wagstaff

I like how the trees sound kinda like Ewoks
Cody

LOL at 31
Frank

Awesome! Eisener completely captured The Sierra Club's best masturbatory fantasy!
Da Man

That shit was off the chain! Whatever that music at the beginning was it was the balls. And you guys all seemed to like the smashed baby deal at the end but the horrified trees in the back of the van and the guy who said "NO! It's Christmas, I just wanna fuck!" made it worth the sixteen minutes for me.
http://www.youtube.com/carlemile carlemile Viel

This is what film making is all about, taking your imagination to another level. Far more entertaining then a lot of movies I seen lately.
will

....you've gotta be pretty f***ing disturbed to think that was even remotley funny, or enjoyable.
King

This is quite frankly, one of the greatest films I've ever seen! My kind of horror, and even though it has an absurd, comedic premise, it carries a good theme. Fantastic work. Love the homage to Zombie Flesh Eaters during the 'love' scene!
esophus

love the opening and closing credits...good concept...I would have tried to keep it that b-movie feel like the credits.maybe even shoot it on grainy 16mm.all in all nice work.
Shaun

Amazing movie. #37 is a pansy, get with the times. everybody is disturbed these days. I like the way the movie was shot. So cult classic. Real genius. Some of the tree sounds were actually dolphins and most sounded like cousin It from the Adams Family. And right near the end there is a guy being sodomized by a tree in his front yard. priceless.
Shaun

it's like the Happening on acid. so way better... plus nobody got chased by wind ha ha ha. Marky Mark, you should be ashamed of yourself!!!!
TheManWithNoName

That was awesome! I loved the dolphin noise when the tree held the axe up!
xerxex

I can't stop laughing at this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But the trees, the trees have become evil in their revenge! I love it I came close to turning it off...BUT I'm glad I didn't!!!!
BK

This has potential. Not surprisingly the human dialogue was terrible, but otherwise it was downright entertaining. Why do low budget slashers always decide that all people swear all the time? The lumberjacks I got because they were the evil guys, but the random swearing once the trees got to the homes was just distracting. I've never been much for the low budget slasher genre so the violence was a bit much for me (but I get it). Let the Shaun of the Dead boys turn this into a feature length film and it would be absolute genius. Definitely at least 1 obvious dolphin noise. And the subtitles for the trees were f'ing perfect. Well done you crazy Canadiens. Best thing out of Canada since Trailer Park Boys.
David Banner

OMG, I am so gunna watch this with my family at x-mas for the rest of my life
Ike Iszany

Sadly, it's better than "The Happening".
Crystal

Is it just me... or does that dude at 13:35 look like he's being butt fucked by the tree?
Cbake

This has been done already. I saw a short extremely similar to this back in 2002.
Pyke!

And that short would be??...
buooy

kelleeeeerrrrr treeeeeee
jaja

well this was fuckkng bullshit
stump lover

this was a fan-freakin-tastic film! i despise christmas so i'm going to watch this every day in december just to get me through that terrible music and the hordes of pissed off broke people pretending to be cheery about the birth of their zombie demi-god. Also may i speak for the rest of the 48 or so other people that liked the film and say that if you don't have anything at all positive to say about something that someone else put their money, sweat, and tears into, than keep your negative dickmunching opinion to yourself nobody cares...