A woman is trapped in her apartment alone with a murderous ventriloquist dummy.
The Dummy is a fun little horror short from 1982, and it was a student film by Louis La Volpe. Throughout the 80’s, networks like HBO and Showtime would play this during the commercial breaks of horror movies.
Director: Louis La Volpe
Country & year: USA, 1982
Actors: Ezra Teitelbaum, Carrie Vickrey
IMDb: www.imdb.com/title/tt2338710/
When a local ranger in a small country town finds an unidentified algae overwhelming the town’s water supply, he knows something’s not right. But it’s not until the sun goes down that he discovers the true extent of the danger – it seems the town is about to experience the effects of a mysterious infection that turns not only humans – but animals too – into zombies.
Waterborne is a fun little Australian horror short, with Kangaroo zombies!
Director: Ryan Coonan
Country & year: Australia, UK, 2014
Actors: Martin Blum, Don Bridges
IMDb: www.imdb.com/title/tt3735706/
Home alone at night, a young woman is about to discover the other side of social media.
A. Friend is unsettling and creepy in a more realistic way, as it plays with the idea of a darker side of social media and how it can be used.
Director: Erwann Kerroc’h, Amaury Dequé
Country & year: France, 2015
Actors: Amandine Boulet
IMDb: www.imdb.com/title/tt5246798/
Leah is looking for the perfect filter to send her crush, until the app detects an unknown face in the darkness.
Fear Filter is a horror short that’s using one of our typical modern activities (at least a typical activity that’s popular with a younger crowd): Snapchat filters. This horror short, albeit very simple, manages to use its rather simple concept in a creepy way.
Director: Tracy Kleeman
Country & year: USA, 2019
Actors: Lou Lou Safran
IMDb: www.imdb.com/title/tt9853246/
A man installs a set of French doors during a renovation. What he doesn’t know is that the doors harbour a secret. A dark secret…
The French Doors is a chilling horror short that may seem a bit on the simple side at first, but soon delivers a good amount of creepy atmosphere.
Director: Steve Ayson
Country & year: New Zealand, 2002
Actors: Brett Stewart, Andrew Kouacevich, Barnie Duncan, Neill Duncan
IMDb: www.imdb.com/title/tt0343687/
A man comes home from work, and is so tired that he falls asleep on the couch. His partner begins filming him, finding his snoring funny… but then, strange things start happening on her phone camera…
Selfie is a simple, yet still effective, horror short from Japan.
Director: Nari
Country & year: Japan, 2016
Some old houses have secrets. Dark secrets. It bleeds into the wood and soaks the very soul of its foundations. For young Isobel and her Grandmother, they discover through the course of one eerie night that some secrets weren’t meant to be unraveled. They’re coming…and they’re taking…
The Taking by Matt Eskandari is a suspenseful and atmospheric “haunted house” horror short.
Director: Matt Eskandari
Country & year: USA, 2004
Actors: Blaine Saunders, Kay Stratton, Tess Tarin, Josh Rushing
IMDb: www.imdb.com/title/tt0427926/
Bree, a dishonest 9-year-old receives a terrifying visitor after a parenting lesson goes horribly wrong.
Kookie is a fun little horror short about a bratty and dishonest little girl. She keeps taking more cookies from the jar than she’s allowed to, until her mother puts the cookies in a terrifying clown jar in hopes of scaring her greedy hands away from it. Of course, the girl can’t resist the temptation, no matter how creepy she thinks the clown jar looks…
Director: Justin Harding
Country & year: Canada, 2016
Actors: Ava Jamieson, Alana Elmer, Jarrett Siddall, Jessie Garon
IMDb: www.imdb.com/title/tt5594566/
A father helps a young boy get over his fear of Monsters, at a terrible price.
The Monster is a nice little horror short about a classic theme: a kid that’s afraid of monsters, and his father trying to help him get over his fear. This boy’s father is not like most fathers, though…
Director: Neil Stevens
Country & year: USA, 2019
Actors: Aaron Bradshaw, Brian Ramian, Erika Stasiuleviciute
IMDb: www.imdb.com/title/tt8510332/
A little girl thinks Christmas in New Zealand sucks. It’s too hot, there are mosquitoes everywhere, and not a snowflake in sight. But when Lisa wishes for a White Christmas one year, she gets a lot more than she bargained for…
A somewhat cute horror short about a girl who wants to experience a White Christmas, but gets it in a way she’ll soon regret…
Director: Peter Haynes, Nick Burridge
Country & year: Australia, 2016
Actors: Keira Christina, Hweiling Ow
