Tag Archives: Short film

The Cleansing Hour is a slow burn, but, at the same time, a rewarding watch if you can make it through to the ending. Throughout the duration of the film, I felt like it had a much longer runtime than 97 minutes. Writer/director/editor Damien LeVeck (Dark, Deadly & Dreadful 2018) …

Presented as part of the Home Invasion Block of shorts at Brooklyn Horror Film Festival 2019, Meredith Alloway’s short film, Deep Tissue, is an opulent, charged film about the exploration of sensation and the power of human touch. We open on Liv (Alloway: Mutt 2017) in a motel room, in …

The Limbo Cafe is written, directed and produced by Jason Burke (Mind Bender, author of Field of Madness). It’s a horror short that was a labor of love. That much is obvious. The Limbo Cafe centers around protagonist Atria Romero. She enters The Limbo Cafe looking haggard, tired and in …

For Cinepocalypse, I reviewed a short film called Killer Of Killers, directed by Don Swaynos (Beaver Trilogy Part IV 2015, Don’t Ever Change 2018 – read our review here). Most of the time, when you review a project for a film festival, all you have to go on is the …

As part of the Shorts Block 1: Shadows Within playing at Cinepocalypse 2019 is Director Ricardo Farias Arauzo’s (Voces 2016) short film, Deliver. The film stars Betiza Bistmark Calderón (Guava Island 2019), newcomer Edel Govea, and Reynier Morales (Un hombre nuevo 2014). Synopsis: In the near future, humanity is on …

As part of the Shorts Block 1: Shadows Within playing at Cinepocalypse 2019 is Swedish director Tomas Stark’s (The Shadows Await 2018) short film, Deliria. The film stars Jordskott’s Dante Fleischanderl and Kristofer Kamiyasu as a mysterious father and son. The film takes place on an idyllic summer’s day where …

“The events and characters portrayed in this motion picture are real. They’re all real. Your imagination is real and it is dangerous as fuck.” This warning scrolls past during the end credits for Bad Blood: The Movie’s Tim Reis and James Sizemore’s new mind-bending seventeen-minute short, Budfoot, and it distills …

I’m a sucker for long film titles. It might be a cheap trick to get my eyeballs on a movie, but a long title like The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears (2013) or Your Vice Is A Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (1972) just sucks me …

From Director Davide Melini (The Sweet Hand of the White Rose 2010) comes a new short film called Lion, and it explores a topic that is still controversial in today’s day and age: domestic abuse. Lion stars newcomer Pedro Sánchez as Leon, a young boy who begins the film cowering …

Described as a powerful story of addiction, redemption and forgiveness by Actress Berna Roberts (read our interview here), Grip immediately sparked my intrigue. I can certainly say that this short film, which served as Barret Mulholland’s directorial debut, does not disappoint. This dark drama utilizes every crucial moment incorporating an …