Evil Dead inspired Japanese short horror film. A bunch of pals go to check in on their friend who seems to be going full hikikomori. When they get there, the windows are covered with newspaper, the place stinks, there’s goo on the carpet, and bags of garbage everywhere. Because it isn’t Scotland, where the immediate…
The Nicky Nack nails its colours to the mast as English folk horror by opening in the quintessential British pub replete with toby jugs and hanging baskets. There our hero throws back a few, and like Tam O’Shanter, prepares to make the long and lonesome journey home through the black night. Doing the starboard-side shuffle…
Even the title gives you the wiggins. Such Small Hands is a horror short focusing on a newcomer to a orphanage who struggles to break into the collective. When they pull apart her doll, she institutes a secret nighttime game, where one girl at random will be picked to be ‘the doll’ and the rest…
The Dinner After is a horror short film about a lassie going for her weekly tea with her mum and dad. Their abject cheerfulness bounces off her hesitancy in what you could at first put down to the normal tension of adult children visiting their parents. However it soon proves that more is going on,…
There’s nothing as dirty as money, as folk say. A waitress with a phobia about coins is really in the wrong job, in this German short horror film. The sound and music build to a crescendo as she starts to crack up with a customer who insists on paying in a slew of shrapnel. The…
In The Soil is a Danish short horror film. A daughter becomes concerned about her father after he becomes obsessed with digging a hole next to their house. From the size and shape of it, it’s clearly a grave. But for who?
Really lovely, interesting and warm short film about a group of laundry workers getting together a poster celebrating the festival of Ganesh. Now, when I say poster, I don’t mean a bit of A4 stuck up in the break room. I mean something the size of a barn door. One guy uses last year’s poster…
Pride is the name of the University of Virginia’s Black Student Alliance’s newspaper. The short film is set back in the 1990s and depicts the student group getting together to discuss what to put out in their latest issue. The topic is financial aid is brought up, how it’s not enough, how difficult it is…
Marrying documentary and musical, Neon Phantom looks at the lives and struggles of delivery workers in Brazil. The film combines a lot of different styles, there are scripted drama skits, first hand narratives of real experiences, song and dance numbers about their frustrations. It’s an interesting choice. It gives a number of different ways for…
Horrific animated short film from Chile, which makes more sense if you know who Ingrid Olderock was. Be warned there are some deeply disturbing images in this, all the worse now I know they are based on a true story. Bestia starts by showing us the mundane life of a pudgy middle-aged woman. She bakes…