{"id":3457,"date":"2025-10-31T20:05:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T20:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3457"},"modified":"2025-10-31T20:05:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T20:05:03","slug":"jokers-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3457","title":{"rendered":"Jokers Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2025 Official Selection: <span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Short Film &#8211; Horror<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">The Joker (David Howard Thornton, &#8220;Terrifier&#8221;) has captured Robin and after two days of awful torture his revenge plays out in front of a helpless Batman. Inspired by the 1988 DC comic &#8220;A Death In The Family&#8221;\u2014with a horrific twist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Director(s): <span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Aaron William Bennett<\/span><br \/>\nWriter(s): <span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Aaron William Bennett<\/span><br \/>\nProducer(s): <span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Aaron William Bennett, Hunter G. Williams, Vanessa Leigh<\/span><br \/>\nKey Cast: <span data-sheets-root=\"1\">David Howard Thornton, Joel LeBlanc, Hunter G. Williams<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Country: <span data-sheets-root=\"1\">United States<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4509\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4509\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4509\" src=\"https:\/\/shermanoaksfilmfestival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Jokers-WIld-banner-Aaron-W.-Bennett.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4509\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Life is funny, death is hilarious.<\/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; Horror The Joker (David Howard Thornton, &#8220;Terrifier&#8221;) has captured Robin and after two days of awful torture his revenge plays out in front of a helpless Batman. Inspired by the 1988 DC comic &#8220;A Death In The Family&#8221;\u2014with a horrific twist. Director(s): Aaron William Bennett Writer(s): Aaron William Bennett &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3457\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jokers Wild&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3457","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\/3457","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=3457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}