Slough Skin — Swamp Shedding Horror

An 8-second primordial swamp horror short, 16:9. An airboat's bow camera crosses a Louisiana bayou at dawn — and finds a human-sized shed skin hanging from a cypress, still wet. 0-3s: the airboat bow camera idles through the bayou at dawn — black water, cypress knees, Spanish moss hanging like shrouds, mist lying on the water. The engine cuts to idle; the boat drifts toward a half-drowned cypress. Something hangs from a low limb. 3-6s: the camera holds as the airboat drifts closer — a skin, human-shaped and intact, hanging by the scalp: translucent, dripping, the size of a grown man, shed whole like a snake's. It sways gently, still wet, dripping into the black water. Its face is slack and eyeless, the mouth open in the shape of a scream it never finished. 6-8s: beneath the hanging skin, the water bulges upward — something massive turning just below the surface, the skin's owner, waiting for it to dry. The airboat's engine catches with a roar; the frame lurches as the boat flees, the skin swinging in the wash. Craft: the airboat and its bow camera; the bayou's black water, cypress knees, Spanish moss, mist; the hanging human-shaped shed skin; the bulging water below. Camera: bow-cam realism, slow drift, the hold on the skin, the lurching escape; authentic framing. Lighting: dawn grey-gold filtering through moss, mist on water, the skin's wet translucency. Mood: primordial, skin-crawling dread. Style: bow-cam realism, swamp atmosphere, slow drift, 8 seconds, 16:9.