DEAR GUEST ** USA 2020 Dir: Megan Freels Johnston. 11 mins Writer-producer-director Megan Freels Johnston’s film sees Ashley Bell and her significant other (Noureen DeWulf) enjoying a much-needed break at a secluded cabin, complete with old movie posters, a luxury pool – and a mysterious, unseen host. Something is, alas,…
Browsing: Short Film
A NOISE THAT CARRIES **** Canada 2019 Dir: Guillermo de la Rosa. 15 mins Venezuelan born, Toronto-based filmmaker Guillermo de la Rosa (and drummer for the band Xaviera) makes his horror film and English language debut with this genuinely chilling short inspired by “Staircase”, an episode from “The Knifepoint Horror”…
PATTERNS *** Canada 2019 Dir: Bj Verot. 8 mins This chilly Canadian short film nods to modern technophobic sci-fi and THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE and has a fine lead performance by Steven Ratzlaff. The impressively ominous extended opening tracking shot prowls around a festively adorned home from the outside. Family man…
TURBO KILLER (a.k.a. Carpenter Brut: Turbo Killer) ***** 2016 Dir: “Seth Ickerman” (a.k.a. Raphael Hernandez, Savitri Joly-Gonfard. 4 mins Three years before the 2019 festival hit BLOOD MACHINES, directors Raphael Hernandez and Savitri Joly-Gonfard made this music video with musician Carpenter Brut. It’s a visually extraordinary (shot by Philip Lozano),…
GILTRUDE’S DWELLING **** Canada 2019 Dir: Jeremy Lutter. 15 mins Teenage orphan Giltrude (the excellent Kennedi Clements) lives in a house on a mountain from which she has never left. Her parents (Jesse Hutch, Priscilla Faia) go out at night on mysterious missions while reminding her that the house itself…