Tribeca Film Festival - In Night Breakers, a group of migrants navigates an underground maze of tunnels, trying desperately to make their way to the city. They face two big hurdles, however. A creature lurks in the shadows, hiding out in corners, waiting to pick them off one by one. Meanwhile, the longer they're trapped underground, [...]

Jim Thorpe Independent Film Festival - In the short, Let's Leave the Planet!, stoner Tara (Julia Rae Maldonado) is at a crossroads of sorts. She's unsure if things are really working out with her boyfriend, Andy (Jeff Gorcyca). Then, when he tells her that he's an alien, she doesn't believe him. Who would? Part stoner [...]

Jim Thorpe Independent Film Festival -Family matters can be complicated. This is especially true if you need to decide what to do with a pretty massive piece of land left to you by your parents. This is generally the premise of writer/director Kaya Tone's short The Call of Water. Her film also combines several genres, [...]

Next time you choose to leave your shopping cart anywhere after using it instead of putting it in its allotted space, think again. Trollied is a short film that gives a mortal lesson for those who like to disobey the rules. In short, a man gets to his car after doing some shopping and throws [...]

When I was little, I used to play with plastic dolls to pass the time or read some story to entertain my eyes. In The Bones, a short film executive produced by Ari Aster, a person plays around with old human bones and uses necromancy for a bigger purpose-- and no, she's not the new [...]

Her Song is a beautiful animated short with a devastating story. An elderly woman tells her granddaughter how she was deprived of her freedom when she was admitted to one of the Magdalene asylums/laundries. A while back I had the chance to watch The Magdalene Sisters which is not a horror film, unless you consider [...]

Memento Mori tells the story of a post-mortem photographer during the Victorian age. He receives his latest subject, a recently deceased young woman. While methodically describing his actions to prepare the body to take its last portrait, the photographer begins to realize that the deceased woman has a last will, and her soul will not [...]