THE LIGHTSABER MAKER *** Canada 2018 Dir: Jeremy Brown. 11 mins Writer-director Jeremy Brown’s short film is engagingly played in talking head documentary style by Scott Patey, cast as the marvellously named Valin Horn. Son of a famous jedi, he claims to have been frozen in carbonite, waking up with…
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BLACK MOON **** USA 2019 Dir: Ryan Graff. 8 mins A black moon is a term used when a new moon appears twice in a month or season. Some believe a black moon to have supernatural powers. On the night of one of these moons a young mother having just…
SCHISM **** New Zealand / Canada / USA 2019 Dir: Johnny Hall, Andrew Todd. 4 mins Made as part of Auckland’s 48 Hours film competition 2019, this avant-garde, visceral psychological horror has an oppressive, disturbing ambience reinforced by co-writer-director Andrew Todd’s abrasive, frenetic electronic soundscape and the suitably grim black…
MAKE ME A SANDWICH **** Canada 2019 Dir: Peter Hatch. 3 mins Here’s a stripped-down vision of domestic hell from Toronto’s wonderfully named Deformed Lunchbox horror filmmaking collective. It has a monstrous performance from Peter Hodgins and it’s his relentless grouchy plea of “Where’s my sandwich?” that establishes his demanding…
GRAVE SIGHT *** Canada 2019 Dir: Walter Forsyth, Angus Swantee. 7 mins This Canadian horror comedy is not especially slick but has fun with its EC Comics-by-way-of-Sam-Raimi set up. In a daylit graveyard opening, Holly Stevens and Craig Gunn brave an exhumation to steal family jewels from a desiccated corpse.…