Short Films Articles

Spoiler-Free Reviews: OUR HAPPY PLACE and THE CODER (Dances with Films)

Our Happy Place (U.S., 2024) Synopsis: Raya wakes in the forest, cold and confused, with no memory of how she got there. Each day, it happens again. As hauntings intensify, Raya must confront a horrifying truth that shatters everything she had...

Chilling Horror Thriller ‘The Damned’ Heading to Theaters

Vertical has now announced that Thordur Palsson's ominous and chilling film The Damned is coming to the UK and Irish cinemas. The Damned is a tense psychological horror film that follows a 19th-century widow Eva. She must make an impossible choice...

A Fearful Four: A Quartet of Recommendations for Another Hole in the Head Film Festival 

San Francisco’s Another Hole in the Head Film Festival is well known for curating unique cinematic fare each year that ranges from the mind-boggling to the outrageous to the philisophical, and beyond. This year’s edition runs December 1–25, at...

Spoiler-Free Reviews: INVITED and PINS AND NEEDLES (Blood in the Snow Film Festival)

Invited (Canada, 2024) Director Navin Ramaswaran heaps on the harrowing in his screenlife/cult horror feature Invited. Recovering alcoholic Linda (Martina Schabron) has strained relations with her extended family members after causing an accident...