The latest short film from Dream Regime Productions and Def films is “Honey, I’m Home,” a film about infidelity. We knew about these cats from their first kick-ass short “Shoot Out” (see our review here) the story of a game of one-on-one that ends with a bang. In Honey, I’m Home Writer/Director David Branin drops us in an affluent suburb early in the morning as one guilty cheater tries to sneak in the house and avoid the wronged wife. What I liked about this a lot was Branin’s choice of tracking shots and DP/Editor Vincent Martinez’s camera work. As any filmmaker knows, one of the hardest shots in filmmaking to get right, not just in terms technique, but also in terms of rhythm and pacing that draws viewers into the story, is the tracking shot and subsequent editing. This beginning is very well-done indeed.

Jacob Magnuson, playing the rascally cheater, is one helluva photogenic actor so it was not to difficult to light him which Martinez and Branin did to a T. Magnuson also has that much envied “presence” that all actors dream of and therefore, again, draws the viewer in. As we follow Magnuson along, knowing that he and the wife (Karen Worden) are in for some trying times, the tension does build and build. This is where the rubber hits the road. I felt the shot selection and lighting could have been ratcheted up for even more tension.