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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
Country United Kingdom
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
Country Canada
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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Child was one of the most quietly unnerving films I saw this year. It begins as a lean, morally queasy drama about a mother who will cross any line to save her own, and then, without warning, it slides the floor out from under you and becomes something else entirely.
2020s
The Influencer Project is a smart, unsettling little thriller that understands exactly what it wants to say about the age of the algorithm, and mostly says it very well. It comes from the team behind The Blair Witch Project, and that pedigree shows: this is found footage with a real
Country Luxembourg
Child is a film I admired and argued with in almost equal measure. For a good long stretch it is a lean, harrowing moral drama, and then it takes a hard turn into somewhere far stranger, and I came away genuinely torn about whether that swerve was brave or a
2020s
I came to Leave Me Alone partly for its lead. Kiran Sonia Sawar was wonderful in the miniseries Pure, a show I loved, and the chance to watch her carry a horror short was reason enough to say yes when the film-maker Shehroze Khan asked me to take a
FrightFest
There is no character in the whole of cinema who has been to the screen more often than Dracula, which means every new version arrives carrying an impossible weight. How do you say anything fresh about a story we have all seen dozens of times, from Lugosi through Christopher Lee
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I wanted to be won over by Electric Meat. Everything about it is designed to appeal to the part of me that loves cinema at its strangest: a wordless, black and white psychosexual thriller from the comic book artist Dan Schaffer, making his feature directing debut, premiering in the dead
Northern Horror Fest
Tobee Collins made Verena with no filmmaking experience at all. None. He taught himself to write, to shoot, to light, to edit and to score, and then went and did every one of those jobs himself: writer, director, producer, cinematographer, editor and composer. It was his first film, and it
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