An astral traveler and a detective risk everything to save a child from the clutches of a rogue demon.
Horror Short Sunday is here again, and this time we’re taking a look at Terror by Night. A fun horror short with some nice atmosphere, a “the further”-ish world, and ghoulish demons!
Director: Dean Butler
Writer: Dean Butler
Country & year: Australia, 2024
Actors: Dean Butler, Gemma Cavoli, Andressa Lemos, Samuel Wertheim
IMDb: www.imdb.com/title/tt27787900/
Jack Paterson’s faithful screen adaptation of his father’s horror film conception from childhood. Also a retelling of the classic Dracula tale.
Horror Short Sunday is here again, and this time we’re taking a look at The Curse of Dracular. A fun and charming claymation short where the creator based it on a story his own father wrote as a child. And yes, he had actually misspelled Dracula with an extra r at the end, hence the title.
Director: Jack Paterson
Writer: Jack Paterson, Michael Paterson
Country & year: UK, 2024
Actors: Emily Conlin, Peter Martin, Jack Paterson, Michael Paterson, Rocco Quincey
IMDb: www.imdb.com/title/tt34507066/
How far would you go to be remembered? A YouTube short inspired by Guillermo Del Toro’s FRANKENSTEIN trailer.
Horror Short Sunday is here again, and this time we’re taking a look at a “fan-remake” that was inspired by the trailer of Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein (which is now streaming on Netflix). The title of this short is called The Frankenstein, and provides a creative cyberpunk-ish version with some really cool stop-motion effects.
Director: Thomas Percy Kim
Writer: Thomas Percy Kim
Country & year: USA, 2025
Actors: Thomas Percy Kim
After 12-year-old Charlie kills a kayaker, his troubled older brother, Blake, attempts to hide the evidence. As Blake grapples with overwhelming guilt, he faces the surreal and horrific consequences of his actions.
It is Horror Short Sunday again, and this time we’re taking a look at Blake Buried a Body. A strange little horror short where it becomes obvious that certain things run in the family..
Director: Joshua Morgan
Writer: Joshua Morgan
Country & year: USA, 2025
Actors: Asher Colton Spence, Troy Thomas, Donna Rae Allen, Mackenzie Prince
IMDb: www.imdb.com/title/tt32306863/
With a hurricane raging outside, two nurses have to stow a dead woman’s body in the hospital morgue before the building floods. But the corpse quickly reveals itself to be more than it seems.
Horror Short Sunday is here again, and this time we’re taking a look at Wake. A creepy horror short a little reminiscent of The Autopsy of Jane Doe. When you find a corpse with a stake stuck in its heart…it might be a good idea to not remove it…
Director: Sean Carter
Writer: Sean Carter
Country & year: USA, 2024
Actors: Catherine McCafferty, Lavelle Roby, Milly Sanders, K Steele
IMDb: www.imdb.com/title/tt35926715/
After surviving a house party-turned-horror film, Tara and Mitch’s escape is cut short when they realize – they forgot their cat.
It’s Horror Short Sunday again, and this time we’re taking a look at Did You Remember the Cat. A fun horror short where a couple barely escapes alive from some kind of murderous entity, but needs to go back for their cat. Because who in their right mind wouldn’t go back to save their cat, right?
Note: also make sure to stay for the cool animated end credits!
Director: Daniel Foster
Writer: Daniel Foster, Autumn Olson
Country & year: USA, 2025
Actors: Angelique Maurnae, Autumn Olson, Daniel Drach, Brandon Hammel, Jonny H Lee, Trevor Newlin
IMDb: www.imdb.com/title/tt33394022/
It’s Halloween in 2003. All that Jeremy wants to do is go trick-or-treating but his overbearing parents won’t let him go. So, he decides to sneak out with his friends. His decision leads to a sinister chain of events, leading to the tragic demise of many.
Our Halloween Marathon is running (where we update with new reviews daily during October!), but we’re still having the weekly Horror Short Sundays of course. And for this last horror short of October we’re taking a look at Just Stay In, a Halloween themed horror short where a boy named Jeremy isn’t allowed to go trick or treating by a control-freak mother and a dad who agrees with it all. So what do you do? You sneak out, of course, parents like that can go fuck themselves! Still…while things seem to go fine at first, Jeremy is soon to find out that he would actually have been better off if he’d just stayed in…
Director: Noah J. Welter
Writer: Noah J. Welter
Country & year: USA, 2024
Actors: Randall Cole, Lucas Dunaway, Wesley Heverly, Aero Rae, Julia Silverman, Brad Stephenson, Kelly Trumbull, and a lot more
IMDb: www.imdb.com/title/tt33307445/
A miniature artist is commissioned to re create a gruesome crime scene for the local police department, unknowingly opening the doors for an evil entity.
Our Halloween Marathon is running (where we update with new reviews daily during October!), but we’re still having the weekly Horror Short Sundays of course. And this time we’re taking a look at In A Nutshell. A creepy horror short where a woman gets a commission to create a “dollhouse” based on photos from the actual crime scene, only to find something strange starts happening once she paints the killer’s symbol on the miniature house walls…
Director: Ryan Valdez
Writer: Ryan Valdez
Country & year: USA, 2025
Actors: Sarah Palmer, Ivan Djurovic, Hannah Risinger, Sarah Nicklin, Zoë Kasch, Mia Kasch
Letterboxd: letterboxd.com/film/in-a-nutshell-2025/crew/
An insecure teenager deletes her social media accounts and learns that what she put online will come back to haunt her.
Our Halloween Marathon is running (where we update with new reviews daily during October!), but we’re still having the weekly Horror Short Sundays of course. And this time we’re taking a look at Selfie. We’ve all seen them, those filter-photos that makes people look like pure nightmare fuel from the deepest uncanny valleys, and yet considered “pretty” by far too many. In this horror short, a young girl is using an app called Selfie to post filter photos of herself where she is totally unrecognizable. Fed up with this fakery, she actually makes the clever decision of deleting the app among the other Social Media apps as well. Good girl! Too bad selfie-barbie-monster doesn’t agree with her…all leading up to a surprisingly vicious ending!
Director: John Poliquin
Writer: Colin Minihan, John Poliquin
Country & year: USA, 2020
Actors: Peyton Kennedy, Dillon Duchesne, Massi Pregoni, Caroline Simone O’Brien
IMDb: www.imdb.com/title/tt11759454/
A woman comes home to find that her husband is talking in his sleep, but soon realizes that something else is talking through him.
We’ve just begun our Halloween Marathon (where we update with new reviews daily during October!), but we’re still having the weekly Horror Short Sundays of course. And this time we’re taking a look at Sleep Talker. A creepy horror short where a woman comes home late, and finds her husband talking in his sleep. We all know that’s a bad sign…
Director: Carl Firth
Writer: Sarah Emery, Carl Firth
Country & year: Australia, 2021
Actors: Jessica Saras, John van Putten, Rhys James, Dean Nye
IMDb: www.imdb.com/title/tt14571010/
