The United States of Horror Film Festival Nationwide Search for 5 Minute Shorts We’re launching THE UNITED STATES OF HORROR Film Festival in 2021 to celebrate and award the contributors that get selected as part of the festival (and as part of the Horror Anthology). Dystopian Films has announced a…
Browsing: Short Film
THE GLOWING (a.k.a. De Gloeiige) *** Netherlands 2019 Dir: Justus Van Den Elsen. 9 mins Co-written by director Justus Van Den Elsen and Bart Verhoeven, this atmospheric, haunting short unfolds around the border between the Netherlands and Belgium in the middle of the 19th century. Stories circulate about a possible…
THE REMNANT *** Canada 2019 Dir: Navin Ramaswaran. 17 mins Here’s a good looking, if thematically limited, exploration of familiar 21st century horror themes from prolific filmmaker Navin Ramaswaran, whose interesting, genre-blurring indie fare includes POOR AGNES (2017). The opening sets the scene – a housekeeper experiences harrowing paranormal activity…
CHANGELING **** UK 2019 Dir: Faye Jackson. 9 mins Lara Belmont is terrific in this dialogue-free one-character short horror piece from writer-director-editor Faye Jackson. Belmont’s work is an authentic portrayal of a young mother falling apart while her baby cries incessantly. She begins to think that there might be something…
FLIP **** New Zealand 2019 Dir: Jessica Grace Smith. 13 mins Funded by the New Zealand Film Commission through its “Fresh Shorts” program, this Wellington-shot film unfolds fifty years in the future where prisoners are barcoded and subjected to retinal scans and a mother named Flip (played by writer-director Jessica…