Elmo is Dead

Elmo is Dead

Wait What??? How???

2025 · Comedy, Drama

Kyla sits through the quiet funeral of her late roommate, Elmo, with only three of her friends in attendance. She attempts to open up about his cause of death, but her well-meaning but nosy companions interrupt with elaborate and hilarious scenarios: Elmo as a mobster caught in a deadly game, a heartbroken lover killed in a telenovela-style betrayal, and even a secret superhero who perished saving an innocent. But when her friends' self-absorbed chatter leaves her alone again, the tragically absurd truth behind Elmo's... dirty demise is revealed.

Directed by Luis Armando Pacheco Larrea · Written by Jorge Lavalle

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