{"id":3422,"date":"2025-10-23T23:36:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T23:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3422"},"modified":"2025-10-23T23:36:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T23:36:40","slug":"the-butchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3422","title":{"rendered":"The Butchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2025 Official Selection: <span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Short Film &#8211; Action\/Thriller<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">When two psychotic butchers fail to deliver a box of their finest human meat to a crime boss, their desperate attempt to make it right spirals into blood, chaos, and very bad decisions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Director(s): <span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Chad Andrews<\/span><br \/>\nWriter(s): <span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Chad Andrews<\/span><br \/>\nProducer(s): <span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Conni Miu, Amanda Zhou, Theo Vandergraaf, Michael Maddeaux<\/span><br \/>\nKey Cast: <span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Chad Andrews, Andrew Merrigan, Conni Miu, Richard Marks, Steven Clarke, Michael Perrotti, Obi Obikudu<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Country: <span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Canada<\/span><br \/>\n<span data-sheets-root=\"1\">World Premiere<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4393\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4393\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4393\" src=\"https:\/\/shermanoaksfilmfestival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The-Butchers-Still-Frame-Bap-House-Productions.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4393\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">They forgot the most important body part&#8230; their brains.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shermanoaksfilmfestival.com\/soff-2025\/2025-official-selections-films\/\">Return to 2025 Official Selections \u2013 Films<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: SOFF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025 Official Selection: Short Film &#8211; Action\/Thriller When two psychotic butchers fail to deliver a box of their finest human meat to a crime boss, their desperate attempt to make it right spirals into blood, chaos, and very bad decisions. Director(s): Chad Andrews Writer(s): Chad Andrews Producer(s): Conni Miu, Amanda Zhou, Theo Vandergraaf, Michael Maddeaux &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3422\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Butchers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sherman-oaks-film-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}