8 Butterflies: Fragile Wings and Fragile Concept

https://vimeo.com/14990971 Matthew Foster's review of this one on short of the week had my interest piqued. That curiousity was soon lost when I watched the film for more than two minutes. I thought this would have the abstract and sensational feeling of the bizarre footage usually used to propel an alternate reality game, but with …

Fear and Loathing in Our Own Mind, Symbiosis – Shortcut

SYMBIOSIS by Nadja Andrasev https://vimeo.com/496401770 So I watched Nadja Andrasev's "SYMBIOSIS" and it was to put it simply GORGEOUS. If anything I can really recommend it for being a masterful execution in many facets of its artistic vision. Its art style comes across as fully realized and unique, especially able to mix media together to …

Spooky Shorts of the Boxleitner Brothers

Welcome back to another spook, this time something a little different. Usually it's just one spooky short, or a collection centered around a common theme or element. This time the underlying work all share the same author. Here are some of the delightfully spooky works of the Boxleitner Brothers a YouTube channel of more than …

Alexia – A Facebook Horror

Fair Warning, even I find this one very creepy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV8UnfFmD-Y&t=11s Directed by Andrés Borghi Just a glimpse of the thumbnail while give you the pretty clear impression that this horror short has been highly touted. I'm not here to disagree with that consensus. This is one of few shorts that held me in nail-biting suspense, …

A Spooky Movie for Cats? – What is Scaredy Cat?

When I first stumbled upon a YouTube ad for 'Scaredy Cat, I was perplexed. A movie for cats.....what does that mean? Well apparently Temptations "Not to be confused with The Temptations" has an answer for you. So grab a furry friend and let's see who's a big old Scaredy Cat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WULOpreo36o&t=53s I somehow feel more …

Curve – 31 Spooks of October

https://vimeo.com/221821296 Directed by Tim Egan This is probably my version of hell. I don't really have a severe phobia but the thing that gets me the most would probably be basophobia or the fear of falling. I guess the rationale being that falling is a stasis of no control. You can run from a spider …

Sleepwalking Spooks

So I know for my friend over at the Moyatorium, having odd dreams is a regular occurrence but for the rest of us they can be rather strange. Dreams are devoid of logic and it's logic that often brings a sense of safety. Then there's also the act of sleepwalking, which is a strange anomaly …

‘Childer’ Got Me Bewildered – 31 Spooks of October

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRCK3umiKQQ Beware, beware the childer come. Into the forest, and you become one. Have you ever wonder what it would be like if Wes Anderson and Ari Aster made a horror flick together. I mean I'm gonna ignore the fact that this role is suited for a great Toni Collette performance and say that this …

Make Me a Sandwich – 31 Spooks of October

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfGEdmZyVyY Glad to see Shoenice is doing well. What an uncomfortable conundrum. This man is obviously a human trash can and should be served 20 sandwiches at a time. It's a good use of older actors, it's a nice rarity given that most shorts are done by young folks. The sound design of hearing that …

Ooh What a Twist! (shortcut ep. 2)

Short films live and die on how with it being such a short commitment to watch them what makes them worth remembering? Often filmmakers will pander to political biases to make their work noteworthy... when that doesn't work they may try to demonstrate their outside the box writing chops by creating an ending the audience …

Shorts of Famous Directors (shortcut ep. 1)

Welcome everyone to what I hope can be a marvelous beginning to a new series. I guess you could say that I am a connoisseur of short films and to my dismay…. generally, people don’t care. But that ends today, because I’m going to take you on a journey through the art, the craft, the …