The Man in the Suitcase (A Creepshow short on SHUDDER)

Genre: Horror
Rating: TV-MA (M)
​Warnings: Body Horror, some Gore

A very dark and disturbing tale, very well told. The man in the suitcase is twisted and tangled to fit, which gets more and more horrific the more you try to think about it, so my advice is don't.

The horror is, once again, the terrible things normal humans are capable of. The man who finds the case is not the awful one; it's his friend who convinces him to torture the suitcase man for his coins. It's his friend and [ex] girlfriend who ramp up the torture and shun his worries, all the way up to the Aesop's Fable style moral at the end.

This feels more like a dark fantasy, especially due to it's moral ending, but is still an enjoyable little short. The main character is more believable than the easily-evil friend and girlfriend, or the too-nice man in the suitcase. A little over the top, for sure, but it doesn't ruin it. The mysterious man is so apologetic and kind, which makes you wonder why. Who is after him? How did he get in the case? It all comes together in a very neat ending, even if the moral learned seems like something you wouldn't have to teach people.