By Ben Bussey The future looks kaiju-shaped. With Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim hitting in just a few months (for which a sequel is apparently in the planning stages already), Gareth Edwards’ currently-shooting Godzilla reboot stomping onto screens next year, and a fourth Jurassic Park also underway, we can expect giant monster action in great [...]

By Keri O’Shea Some of you may remember, a few weeks back, we featured a nifty and very gory short film by the title of Brutal Relax? Well, wouldn’t you know, but filmmakers Adrián Cardona and David Muñoz have only gone and taken their madcap visions of the walking dead back to the time of [...]

By Keri O’Shea If you’ve ever been unlucky enough to suffer from anxiety, there’s a fair chance that it’s also involved a degree of agoraphobia: after all, if people and unfamiliar situations fuck you up, then going out into the world where these things exist in spades is not likely to be a fun experience. [...]

By Keri O’Shea As feature length movies grow increasingly longer, short films serve a purpose beyond themselves – and that is to remind the film-going world that a moving story can be told in a fraction of the time which many features feel they now need. This is the case with Nicky, the third film [...]

By Keri O’Shea Here in the UK, we’re now in the grip of a good old fashioned British winter (with the exception of all the flooding, which is a fairly new development): at the moment, we have to contend with that unique Blighty cold which clings to your bones, frost, snow and high winds. Marvellous. [...]

By Keri O’Shea I’ve heard a new term being used recently – on Twitter, as you might expect – and that term relates to the new wave of retro-styled trailers and movies we’ve been seeing so much of lately, those projects which hark back to a seedy, insalubrious, straight-to-video heyday. That term, folks, is ‘rewindhouse’, [...]

By Keri O’Shea The Czech Republic is famous for being the setting of The Golem, which became one of the first horror movies ever filmed – but, excepting the possibility that we’re just not getting to see them, we haven’t seen much horror coming out of that part of Europe. That is, until director Robin [...]

By Keri O’Shea I’ve always thought that the basis of a good short film was simplicity. With a limited time scale, it makes little sense to crowd your film with masses of ideas and impressions. And, sometimes, that simple, but beautifully-expressed idea can be incredibly creepy – not packing a punch, keeping the jump scares [...]

By Keri O’Shea A young woman (Axelle Carolyn) goes to collect her post one day and discovers that she’s been sent a mysterious DVD entitled ‘Watch Me’. Curiosity, of course, gets the better of her. She places the disc in her player, and – that’s her first, significant mistake. What she sees on the disc [...]

by Keri O’Shea As an enthusiastic film festival attendee – currently looking forward to making my yearly pilgrimage to the Abertoir Film Festival in Wales – one of the real highlights for me has to be the short films programme. In fact, some of my favourite films of the last five years have been shorts. [...]

by Ben Bussey Okay. There’s a distinct possibility you already know what this is. This short film starring Tom Jane premiered this past weekend at San Diego Comic Con and has been popping up on many sites and blogs today, most of which have not been shy about giving the game away. For the benefit [...]

by Marc Patterson Swedish filmmaker Ronny Carlsson’s short horror film Récompence blew both Annie and me away when we saw it, (reviewed here), so it is with a bit of excitement that I’m sharing this next bit of news. Carlsson is back at it with a follow-up to Récompence. This one is titled Dust Box [...]

Review by Marc Patterson John (Robert Nolan) is forty-five years of age and in the middle of his own personal hell. While he should be seeing his only child off to her final years of high school before moving towards “freedom” he’s recently learned that his wife has just gotten pregnant. His boorish, dull, and [...]

by Marc Patterson I feel like a huge stanky douchebag supreme. It’s Friday and back on Monday I was supposed to share this news with you. But I didn’t. Not because I didn’t want to, but because I’m simply busy and forgetful. If I don’t count the items I need to have whenever I leave [...]

by Keri O’ Shea From time to time, an unknown short film will appear on a festival cinema screen and render an audience full of diehards absolutely silent afterwards…we head to Spain for the antithesis of Christmas cheer today, with just such a film: Merry Little Christmas. I encountered this movie at the Dead by [...]

Reviews by Kayley Viteo Good Morning Beautiful – Although I missed the beginning of this one due to Toronto traffic, I walked in at the right moment. Creepy, but with a sly undercurrent, there’s something both slow-moving and frenetic about this short by Todd Cobery. Protoparticulas – A sci-fi black and white piece that manages [...]

by Marc Patterson There are only a couple of more weeks for voting in Drafthouse Film’s ABC’s of Death Contest. For those not in the know, Drafthouse Films has put together a roster of 25 filmmakers who are currently creating some really cool genre flicks, and tasked them with creating a short film – each [...]