The First: Debut Work Mixing Atmospheric and Body Horror
Debut filmmaker Susan Ruth’s The First is a 15-minute sensuous horror where being turned on, or really feeling anything at ...
Tag: Horror Short Film Review
She Follows: A Haunting For His Own Good
Gio Randazzo’s She Follows, written with Miranda Rausch, emphasises that it is based on “some real sh*t”. While the substance ...
The PAntry: Haunted House and Paranormal Horror in Bite-Sized Short
Ervis Zika’s The PAntry is a seven-minute paranormal horror film that follows a dark chapter in a woman’s relationship with ...
The Green Ribbon: Funhouse Horror and the Curses We Pick up Along the Way
Heather Turman’s The Green Ribbon, written by David Ho, is more horror-comedy or even campy horror, than pure horror. The ...
Won’t Be Long Now: The Psychological Horror of Parenthood
Billy Nawrocki’s Won’t Be Long Now uses a thoroughly indie praxis with VFX teams to create a 22-minute horror about ...
La Petite Mort: Femalehood and the Lonely Anger in Consumption
Federica Avagliano’s 15-minute vampire horror La Petite Mort will inevitably remind you of Black Swan—and not only because they are ...
Paracosm: Visions of Ecstasy Blend into Bloody Deceit
Adam Van Dyke’s Paracosm, a ten-minute chamber horror, is nothing if not compact. The plot, of course, but especially its ...
44: Psychological Horror in a Liminal Space-Time Loop
Dhwani Shah’s 44, a psychological horror, follows a young woman through her (mis)adventure into an unfinished skyscraper in the middle ...
POV: Slasher Flick with A Bit of Everything
Brian K. Rosenthal’s POV, seventeen minutes long, is a pastiche of slasher flicks, its indulgence in tropes the evidence of ...
That Night: An Expectant House and Its Chilling Emptiness
Joseph McDonagh’s 13-minute That Night is a horror film that thrives on dread. Its preoccupation with dread itself frees it ...
