Tag Archives: Horror Short Film

A Prank Gone Too Far? Telling a complete story in a short amount of time is no easy task. More often than not, what I’ve seen come into festivals are highly stylized, beautifully shot scenes, but not full stories. Give me substance over style any day. ‘Wrightwood‘ delivers quite the …

Mental health is something that affects us all, especially during times like these where we are dealing with a pandemic. That is why Shackles, the new short by filmmaker and fellow PopHorror writer Jason Burke, is not only moving but necessary. The film is only 12 minutes long, has no …

Since her breakout debut in 2014 with her stellar short film Call Girl (check it out here), Jill “Sixx” Gevargizian has consistently left the horror masses enamored. She directed a hefty 15 short films in under five years since, each one stellar in its own right. But it was her masterful …

As Charlie Brooker’s sci-fi anthology series, Black Mirror, has so eloquently demonstrated, our ever-growing dependency on technology is not necessarily a good thing. Our relationship with tech has the potential for dire consequences as we become even more detached from our humanity. Filmmakers Russell Ketterman and David Bennett (Ryker 2019 …

I just want to start off by saying that I love reviewing films for film festivals. You honestly never know what you are going to stumble across, and some of the best films out there right now are coming off the film festival circuit! With that being said, I was …

Watch the skies for Be Us, the new sci-fi/horror short from Alex DiVincenzo and T.J. Frizzi. I want to believe! This six minute film was an official selection at NecronomiCon 2017, Salem Horror Fest 2017, Rock and Shock 2017, and Boston Science Fiction Film Festival 2018. Watch and you’ll see why. …

In life, there are certain fates that are hard for us to accept. The hardest, of course, is losing a loved one. Some never come to terms with that kind of loss. Director and writer Andrea Niada (Here We are Now 2014), brings something new and fresh on this concept with …

Holy Fatma’s Please Love Me Forever takes place in a surreal world. Lili (Isabelle Carlean-Jones), a 14-year-old albino, lives alone with her 50-year-old mother, Claudie (Annick Christiaens), who overprotects her from the outside world. Obsessed with her own appearance, Lili dreams of Lyesse (Carl Malapa), her 16-year-old handsome neighbor whom …

Have you ever had an itch, that no matter how hard you scratch, doesn’t go away? As you become consumed by it and desperate to find relief from it, many thoughts of how to relieve it play out in your mind. Some are probably on the darker side. Sean Kelly’s …

I sat down to watch the short film I Make Corpses for the Blood in the Canadian Film Festival with the knowledge that it included a serial killer and zombies and that’s all I needed. Not knowing what to expect, I dove in headfirst and it was an interesting ride. …