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Of all the shorts I caught around this year's BFI London Film Festival, Max Vanderspuy's Fishbrain was the one that lingered longest, a briny, tactile piece of body horror whose practical effects had me thinking of An American Werewolf in London, and which I gave three
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Every October, the writer-director-actor Brianna Lee sets herself a gloriously punishing challenge: five brand-new horror shorts, each written, directed, edited and headlined by her, released as part of her annual Halloween Nights series on Bloodstream. Having worked my way through this year's batch, a run
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Every year around this time, the writer-director Brianna Lee unleashes a fresh batch of horror shorts for her Halloween Nights series, streaming exclusively on Bloodstream, and this year she was kind enough to send five of them my way for an early look. Having reviewed her earlier shorts Home
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Bump in the Night, Brianna Lee's short film, is a tidy little slice of domestic dread that builds its tension beautifully before stumbling slightly at the final hurdle. The last of her Halloween Nights shorts I worked through, it is effectively creepy for most of its length, and
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Every now and then a short film pulls off a twist so cleanly that it reframes everything you have just watched, and Your Ticket Is Ready, Brianna Lee's short film, is one of those. The pick of her Halloween Nights shorts, it is a genuinely brilliant little ghost
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Tag, Brianna Lee's short film, is a game of marital horror that packs a decent amount of nastiness into its six minutes. Another of her Halloween Nights shorts, it is a touch slight and a little let down by its build-up, but it has a wicked streak
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Hungry, Brianna Lee's short film, is a lean and nasty little horror piece that gets a surprising amount of blood on the screen in a very short space of time. It is the first of her Halloween Nights shorts I worked through, and while it is far too
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There is a clever idea buried inside The Sorrows of Young Charlotte, Shir Ariya's dark comedy short film, which I caught in the BFI London Film Festival's Land of Hope and Gory strand. The title alone tells you the game, a gender-flipped riff on Goethe,
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Here is a short that understands the oldest rule in horror: what you do not see is almost always scarier than what you do. The Last Snow, Rodolphe Bouquet's tense little French creature feature, is really impressive for its length, a lean, dread-soaked chiller that had me
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Fishbrain is a stunner. Max Vanderspuy's short is a grim, briny little nightmare about love curdling into resentment, and it builds to some of the most impressive body horror I have seen in any film this year, let alone one this length. It is nasty, tender and genuinely
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Every so often a short film takes a single, slightly mad idea and commits to it so completely that you cannot help but admire the nerve of the thing. Sophia Di Martino's All Yours is one of those, an eight-minute piece of domestic body horror that is
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Well, this is one I will not forget in a hurry. Emily Lawson's Man Eating Pussy is as confrontational as its title promises, a grotesque, strange and surprisingly tender little piece of body horror that uses one genuinely unforgettable image to say something real. It does not all
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