NO ONE WILL EVER BELIEVE YOU **** Canada 2018 Dir: Frederic Chalte. 6 mins A clever, creepy twist on one of the recurring tropes of 1980’s mainstream American horror: the intense childhood fear of a monster in the closet. Writer-director Frederic Chalte, who made the excellent THE BABYSITTER (2016) knows…
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MELOPEE (a.k.a. Plainsong) **** Canada 2019 Dir: Alexis Fortier-Gauthier. 18 mins Three young people celebrate “Quebec Day” with a beach house vacation that highlights existing tensions and unfulfilled desires: Olivier (Antoine DesRochers) clearly fancies his mate’s girlfriend Diane (Rosalie Fortier) and, after an unpleasant encounter with patronising locals (verdict on…
MOMENT **** Canada 2019 Dir: Geoffrey Uloth. 22 mins Screenwriter-director Geoffrey Uloth, who made the series CHASING MONSTERS after a sequence of short films, presents a unique and heartfelt twist on the superhero genre with this unexpectedly moving Montrael-shot piece. After finding a mysterious teddy bear on her bed at…
FEAR HORIZON (a.k.a. The Vault – Episode 1 ‘Survivor’) *** Canada 2018 Dir: Sara Martins. 9 mins This is the first episode of an Ontario-shot web series created by Sara Martins and David Aliry. We’re in familiar post-apocalyptic territory, though the location filming gives it a particularly atmospheric, snowbound visual…
FOYER (a.k.a. Hearth) **** Canada 2019 Dir: Sophie B Jacques. 11 mins Writer-director Sophie B Jacques’ latest short film offers a droll, cleverly constructed inversion of home invasion tropes with which we are all too familiar. It unfolds in a luxurious neighbourhood and revolves around Emilie (Marilyn Castonguay), who returns…