A cameraman helping to shoot an indie film suddenly finds himself wandering a liminal space. The Backrooms a 9 minute found footage short film made by the 16-year old director and VFX artist Kane Parsons which takes the concept of liminal spaces to a whole new level of horror. Director: Kane Parsons …
Welcome to Z movie hour. Today we take a look at a micro-budget and campy sci-fi schlockfest with an evil alien and his lazer gun, made by amateur filmmaker Don Dohler, starring his neighbours, brother-in-laws, himself, and his two sons. Nightbeast opens with a small spaceship that gets hit my a meteor and crashlands spectacularly …
The ever-vibrant Mr. P. N. K Panicker has several shockers up his sleeve. He takes the viewer along a moonlit stroll and paints a quirky picture of the supernatural encounters he has had. Kandittund (Seen It) is a somewhat light-hearted story about an old man’s encounters with supernatural beings. In this animated short, Adithi …
A lady called Mad Dolly is being chased by some mob in a forest who believe she is a witch. She gets captured and about to get burned at the stake, on order by Lord Garrick. Before they get the chance to lit her on fire, she gives her final speech with silly facial expressions, …
A husband’s attempt to keep his sleepwalking wife from injuring herself descends into chaos as he discovers she may be in the grips of mind control. Sleepwalker is a weird, nightmarish horror short about a man who keeps watch over his sleepwalking wife. Director: Nathan Alan Bunker Country & year: USA, 2022 …
What does Jason, Pinhead, Leprechaun and Dracula have in common? They’ve been into space. And this has to be the worst of them all. Good grief. We’re in the year 3000 and get introduced to Captain Abraham Van Helsing (Casper Van Dien) and his small crew on a salvage space ship, looking for a …
A widower with supernatural abilities helps a local detective save her daughter from dark forces. Evenfall is a thriller/horror short with an interesting concept: a detective using his supernatural abilities to help a local police woman find her kidnapped daughter. Could easily have been an interesting series! Director: Dean Butler Country & …
Adam Green starts working on a documentary about monster/creature artwork. Out of the blue, a man suddenly contacts him and claims he has proof of the existence of monsters. This man’s name is William Dekker, and he is a retired detective who is convinced that there’s underground monsters in a place he calls “The Marrow”. …
The ghost of bad decisions haunts a drunk driver. Hit + Run is a creepy horror short about a man (with an obvious alcohol problem) who gets haunted by the girl he killed while drunk driving. Directors: Austin Faust, Mike Wolfe Country & year: USA, 2020 Actors: James David West, Michael Leidel, …
Mary Elnor is a young woman being accused of Witchcraft in Banfield, Massachusetts, in 1845. She is being hanged from a tree, and then lit on fire by an angry mob, who also bounds her spirit to the body of a doll before she takes her final breath. Years later, we meet Gerry Fenn …
