In December 2018 a team of Pittsburgh filmmakers launched a crowdfunding campaign for an exciting holiday horror film, The Elf in the Room to be filmed and produced in Pittsburgh in 2019. The campaign is currently running until 8th February 2019 on Indiegogo with a fundraising goal of $10,000. The Elf…
Browsing: Short Film
HALLOWEEN HELL NIGHT * UK 2018 Dir: David Black, Nick Charles, Jason Figgis, Ross Heath, John H Shelton, Wesley Skelly, Tony Newton, Sam Mason-Bell, Chris John Livermore. 64 mins Here’s a collection of eight amateurish short horror films – some with a Halloween theme – linked by the cringe-inducingly naff…
SLAPFACE **** USA 2018 Dir: Jeremiah Kipp. 8 mins A young boy (Joshua Kaufman) walks through woodland hearing ominous voices and seemingly pursued by a malevolent long-haired figure dressed in rags. A striking autumnal visual palette provides an appropriate backdrop to what initially appears to be a terrifying riff on…
SOUNDBITE **** USA 2018 Dir: Michael Coulombe. 4 mins The latest from prolific filmmaker Michael Coulombe – released through his YouTube channel – is a marvellously unsettling exercise in minimalistic horror. A young woman (Taylor Murphy-Sinclair) immersed in the technological world that consumes us all (earphones, laptop, Smart Phone) receives…
THAT’S LIFE ***** USA 2018 Dir: Carson Griffin. 5 mins Filmed in one night by writer-director Carson Griffin, inspired by the personal demons highlighted by his own army service, this is a devastating distillation of living with mental illness, unfolding through the visual, aural and thematic tropes of a horror…