SKIN BABY *** USA 2018. Dir: Ken Cohen. 9 mins Phyllis Jackson impresses as Rosie, a troubled and grief-stricken young woman who is turned down for a very specific tattoo at her local tattooist but finds an artist willing to do it on the side. The final ink work seems…
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NIGHT TIDE **** UK 2019 Dir: Richard Miller. 9 mins Few everyday things are as gruelling as the protracted breakdown of a relationship, and this successfully filters one such example through the prism of a genuinely creepy J-horror-influenced tale of the supernatural. Gavin Fowler (Simon in PENNY DREADFUL) is a…
FRANCIS MAKES A FRIEND *** Canada 2019 Dir: Jake Braden, Logan Wood. 15 mins The Francis of the title (Tristan Szucs) is a computer science student / outcast Freshman who finds himself awkwardly introduced to a new circle of friends. He doesn’t like beer, looks strangely familiar, has no social…
DEAD CELEBRITIES **** UK 2018 Dir: Michael Fausti. 11 mins Writer-director-star Michael Fausti follows up impressive earlier shorts Z.A.F. and THE INGRESS TAPES with this broadly played, witty deconstruction of our culture’s fascination with celebrity deaths and the distorted facts employed to embellish our entertainment value of said fatalities. Narrated…
LOVE ME NOT *** USA 2019 Dir: Michael Coulombe 11 mins On Valentine’s day, set to a romantic operatic number, is a table decorated with candles, rose petals and notes of love. A young woman has invited all of her ex’s over as she tries to get through to her current…