Short Films
The Black Orchid Challenge Is Small-Scale Horror Done In A Huge Way [2020 Short Film Review]
It is a very difficult task to make an effective horror film that takes place entirely in one location. It’s even harder when the film is made to feel like it’s a Livestream and is only ...
Night Of The Witch: A Horror Short That Should Be Feature Length
Shorts have long been a budding filmmaker’s first entry point into the big, bad world of feature entertainment. Never more so than in horror, from Mama to Rare Exports and even Saw. More often t...
Short Review: Blind Date Shows Great Promise For Its Writer-Director
Blind Date is a short horror feature written and directed by Rob Rotondo, who is no stranger to the scene. While Blind Date is his first writing and directing credit, Rotondo has previously worked as ...
Short Film Review: The Stylist (2016)
One of the best shorts I had the opportunity to see at Spooky Empire’s film festival, The Stylist is, well, stylish. This does the best thing a short film can do: It feels like a feature. It do...
Short Film Review: The Night Whispered
My favorite thing about Nicholas Vince’s directorial debut “The Night Whispered” is that it feels like something I would have read in one of my favorite horror anthologies as a ki...
Horror Shorts That Should Follow The Lights Out Model And Become Features
We’re seeing a lot of horror movies based on short films these days. Sometimes, the short will be made with the idea of a feature in mind, sometimes it will simply be a short that gains notorie...
Ten Horror Fan Films That Did Justice to the Films They Were Inspired By
Horror movies often spawn numerous fan-made creations, from clothing to fan fiction to art and games. But the most impressive, to me, are the people who love the films so much that they try to create ...
Shining Parody The Chickening is as Odd as it is Funny!
The short film The Chickening has played the festival circuit, notably making an appearance at Sundance, and now it has hit the web. The somewhat NSFW film comes from Nick DenBoer ...
Don’t Despair: A Horror Short That Packs A Serious Punch
Given the current Hollywood trend of refusing to give money to anyone besides the likes of Michael Bay, short films are fast becoming the go-to method for up-and-coming filmmakers to show off what the...
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