Casting Calls - Therapist

Therapist

Horror Short Film

Short Film - Man, Woman 40 - 50 Non Union Principal 07/03/2026 New Orleans

About the Job

The film opens with this character's scene. He plays a Freudian psychotherapist interpreting the protagonist's problems. The scene is intentionally heady — it deviates from any plausible therapy session, bordering on the surreal — but the jargon-filled dialogue offers a way to introduce both the protagonist and the horror backdrop of his world. There's room for dark humor here, born from the disconnect between dry psychoanalytic theory and the protagonist's increasingly strange reality. Midway through, the scene slips into an alternate, unsettling register, where the therapist reveals what's actually going on — perhaps a demon, perhaps something else — delivering a cryptic and grave warning.

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