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While the short is just under four minutes long, it sure does provide
a lot of Nightmare Fuel within its short amount of time.
- Quite frankly, the entire short has a very uneasy atmosphere. The short only really consists of darker colors like crimson red, gray, and black. While there may be some white, it is mostly surrounded by darker colors. It really just gives you a vibe that there is something very, very wrong.
- Even ignoring the color pallet, the short seems to take place entirely in the shadows with very little light. The Wolf is also only ever shown to be in the shadows, which really just adds to the mystery of the Wolf and his motives. Whatever they are, they certainly aren’t good.
- The music
that plays throughout the entirety of the animation is also really unsettling, being a distorted deep and erie tune that just carries the dread of the whole situation. Just listening to it is enough to make you get chills.
- Everything. About. The. Wolf. Just…where to even begin with him?
- First off, we literally know little to ''nothing'' about him. We don’t know what his story is, what his motives are, or even what his real name is. However, considering the final shot of the film, it might be best if we continue not to know.
- His personality just reeks of that of a predator going after his target. He is a Manipulative Bastard who lies about details of himself and what he is doing to gain the trust of Lena, slowly luring her toward him. Eventually, after gaining her trust completely, she agrees to come and visit him on the following Saturday, alone. The whole reveal at the end that the Wolf is a Serial Killer really doesn’t make things better.
- His appearance in general is kinda unnerving as well. For one, he is always seen in the shadows, and his fur appears to be a dark gray color while his eyes appear to be completely white and glowing. Even when the Wolf wears his mask, his eyes are still visible. Oh, and his mask. Dear god, isn’t it also unsettling. He wears what appears to be a mask of a sheep, which appears to be incredibly realistic looking. And with the Wham Shot at the end of the film, it just makes things more disturbing.
- Really the entirety of the Wolf and Lena’s conversation can be seen as this. It goes from just a normal conversation to the Wolf asking Lena her age within a matter of not even a minute, likely showing that the Wolf couldn’t wait too long for her. It gets even worse when the Wolf lies about his age, claiming to have just turned seventeen to get her to trust him, despite previously writing that they were 18.
- To make matters worse, given what Yea Ann said in the comments of the video, that being that Wolf’s age is unknown, it is highly likely that the Wolf isn’t even actually a teenager.
- The Wolf’s manipulation of Lena begins to become even more unsettling once he invites her to come to his house on Saturday. Lena begins becoming visibly uncomfortable, seemingly trying to avoid the subject, but the Wolf pressists. It gets even worse once the Wolf admits that he knows what town Lena lives in thanks to her profile, and that she can come over to his area quickly if she took the bus. After enough pressure, Lena eventually agrees, seemingly not knowing what is coming for her.
- The ending. After the Wolf ends his conversation with Lena, we see him hang his sheep mask on the wall with three other masks next to it. It becomes abundantly clear that what the Wolf plans for Lena isn’t even new for him as he has done this before, and now he is just going after his next target. While the video may end before we see his inevitable interaction with Lena, it is for certain that whatever is going to happen won’t be pretty.
- In the Italian version we actually hear the characters' voices offscreen while chatting. While Lena's is innocent and adorable the Wolf's is purely terryfing as it's quite deep and makes him sound like calm but gleeful at the thought of a new victim.
