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 ...
Tag: Horror Short Film Review
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 ...
Pumpkinstein: Sinners and Monsters, Doomed to Exist Without Dignity
Michael Natoli’s Pumpkinstein is a 21-minute horror spanning decades, nay, centuries, as it follows a witch with a bloody past ...
A Lovely Death: A Dark Fairy Tale Romance, A Painless End
Miguel del Campo’s A Lovely Death is a 7-minute gothic horror that imbues the Grim Reaper with the same kind ...
Icecap Seven: A Half-Hour Mystery Blended with Horror
Daniel Sandoval’s Icecap Seven is a 32-minute mystery produced on a shoestring budget that follows three characters through entwined, non-linear ...
The Need: Inside a Mind that Collects Its Demons
Michael Rognlie and E.E. Tallent’s The Need is a horror short about a withdrawn young man who feels universally unwanted. ...
Consumed: Serving Consumerism Plated on a Foundation of Grief
JP Bradham’s Consumed deploys horror and tumultuous film language to showcase the frenzied mental scape of a character caught in ...
The Doll Collector: The Inevitable Climax of the Familiar Story
Darius Clar’s 14-minute horror The Doll Collector sees two young women join hands with a sorceress. Plagued by problems beyond ...
Chipper: A Chipper Protagonist Chips Away at Rotten Men
The protagonist of Chipper, Caroline,is Elle Woods meets Margot Robbie’s Barbie. Directed by MK Kopp, it is a proof-of-concept horror-comedy ...
