1. Kung Fury
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS5P_LAqiVg Any other year, Romance In NYC would have top of our list: but this is the year of Kung Fury. If youre not one of the nearly 17 million hits on the YouTube upload of
David Sandbergs incredible, over-the-top, hilariously kinetic short film, then youre doing life wrong. Put together on the back of $630,000 raised via a Kickstarter campaign, the film is essentially a love song to all eighties straight-to-video action movies, played with tongue so firmly in cheek that it looks like mumps. Sandberg plays the titular cop, a man who was struck by lightning and bitten by a cobra to gain the kung fu powers of The Chosen One. Guest-starring next to this ultra-kung-fu-cop are arcade-robots, ninjas, time travel, the Norse god Thor, a dinosaur policeman named Triceracop, a vengeful Adolf Hitler played by one of the guys out of The Lonely Island half an hour doesnt seem long enough to fit everything in, but the film moves at such a breakneck pace that it succeeds on almost every level it sets out to. With a gruesomely kitsch faux-eighties soundtrack, the involvement of David Hasselhoff in the accompanying music video (and in a voice-only cameo in the film) and some truly epic reviews, this seems certain to be the beginning of something special for Sandberg. If nothing else, he can probably make a career out of making Kung Fury sequels until the day he dies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTidn2dBYbY
What's your favourite or most anticipated short film of 2015 so far? Tell us all about it in the comments!