After impressing audiences at the 2019 Shriekfest and taking home the award for Best Thriller, Graham Denman is looking forward to the upcoming VOD release of his new thriller Greenlight. A hit for its mix of neon visuals, breakout acting performances, and its darkly twisted comedic energy, Greenlight is surprisingly Mr. Denman’s feature debut -- [...]

As an independent filmmaker working in horror, there are many ways in which a director can create atmosphere and tension with inventive editing and camerawork. In Hello, director Nikhail Asnani creates an abstract piece that uses loops of the central character’s voice (speaking “Hello” in different languages) to set the mood for the piece. It [...]

I was lucky as a kid; the dark never scared me. I was always the girl in slumber parties who would go downstairs to check out what that weird noise was. Darkness was never an issue for me until I watched a documentary about Dracula’s Castle at age 12. After that - I did NOT [...]

BLACK MOON has everything I look for in a horror short, and nothing that I don’t. Incredible atmosphere. No gimmicky tricky cuts or reliance on over the top effects. Small cast, small location, everything tied up in a perfect little bow. This film understands and utilizes the power of an isolated and cold atmosphere. The [...]

Left alone as caretaker of a clothing-optional LGBT resort in its off-season, Matt (Mark Cirillo) confronts an unseen threat which wreaks havoc on him under the Palm Springs night sky. But could this unseen antagonist just be figments of Matt's imagination? It is hard to figure out where exactly to begin in critiquing Jody Wheeler’s new short, Hippopotamus, [...]

The Foal is an eleven-minute short film that follows Lila (Madison Gallus), the morning after a party. After waking up with symptoms of a hangover, she notices strange marks on her neck. She then speaks with her, not at all likable husband, David (Noah Fletcher), here we learn that she’s pregnant and not feeling well. [...]

Despite winning the Best Horror Short award at the 2018 15 Minutes of Fame Festival, Ghost App left lots to be desired. Director Gerald J. Godbout III attempts to introduce a fresh concept in mixing supernatural horror with tech-horror, but fails in the execution. The plot surrounds a young woman who is terrorized by ghosts which she can only see [...]