The Forfeit (2022)

A young working-class Welsh woman meets her wealthy English boyfriend’s eccentric family for the first time on Christmas Eve. She’s thrown straight into the family’s traditional Christmas game, and struggles to keep up with its in-jokes and strange rules. But as she improves, she begins to uncover a dark secret in the family’s past.

Released Nov. 26, 2022 14 min None+

Genres: Comedy, Thriller

Keywords: mdblist.imdb-short, imdb.family-secret, imdb.hourglass, imdb.mysterious-death, imdb.eccentric-family, imdb.christmas-dinner-invitation, imdb.told-in-flashback + 13 more, imdb.girlfriend-meets-family, imdb.christmas-eve, imdb.christmas-tree, imdb.reference-to-dostoyevsky, imdb.reference-to-rasputin, imdb.reference-to-vladimir-lenin, imdb.miming, imdb.word-game, imdb.spooky-basement, imdb.death-of-girlfriend, imdb.locked-in-a-basement, imdb.bottle-broken-over-head, imdb.game