ROAD TRASH *** USA 2019 Dir: Natasha Pascetta. 6 mins Writer-director Natasha Pascetta also plays the eponymous Alice in this cautionary tale told, in lieu of dialogue, by narrator Heather Langenkamp. “Some girls like make-up, others play sports. Alice was just a little different…” intones the erstwhile Nancy Thompson as…
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LADY IN THE SHOWER **** Canada 2018 Dir: Chris Borgo. 6 mins Writer-director Chris Borgo (THE HAG: BLOODLINE, THE NANABIJOU TAPES) – who also produced, shot and edited – cannily plays on our (over) familiarity with modern horror tropes in this dialogue-free, confident mini-shocker. Laura Woodbeck is part of a…
SHADOW ***** USA 2020 Dir: Benjamin Howdeshell. 4 mins Wow! What can I say, apart from absolutely genius! This short, featuring Valeska Miller (Room For Rent, Empires Of The Deep) certainly makes you want to switch on every light in your house, and never want to switch them off again!…
LIMBO **** Spain 2019 Dir: Dani Viqueira. 15 mins A harrowing study of madness and paranoia from writer-director Dani Viqueira, this short pivots around a fearless performance from Xosé Eirín as a family man whom we first meet wielding a shotgun while his terrified wife and daughter desperately plot their…
BEDTIME STORY (a.k.a. El Cuento) **** Spain 2018 Dir: Lucas Paulino, Angel Torres. 9 mins Currently being developed by Sam Raimi’s production company for feature length expansion, this genuinely scary Spanish short opens with a series of quiet but ominous tracking shots through a house. A stressed-out mother tells off…