SHORT FUSE

Our signature block of horror shorts offers fifty flavors of fright and then some! From bizarro birthday parties to sapphic slasher sleepovers and backyard exorcisms, there’s a buffet of frightening fun to be had here. But look out: monsters abound — stalking the beaches of Senegal and rainforests of Malaysia, lurking in the darkened corners of camcorder footage, and following us into bed for a fitful (and frightening) night’s sleep. So, here, take this vape...it's dangerous to go alone!

*Please note: films listed in alphabetical order, not in order of appearance in the block.

BAGMAN- Dir. Connor Gaston & Vaughn Gaston

Don’t you want to know what’s inside the bag? The “safe distance” afforded by screens sets a supernatural trap in this creepypasta-esque techno chiller from Canada.

DËMM- Dir. Aida Captijn

This beautifully captured Senegalese folk horror processes a girl's grief into a feeling of primeval terror.

GIGIT - Dir. Farah Jabir

Ten-year-old Din, frustrated with her gender and at war with Rambo, her harsh older brother, finds a dark kindred spirit in the form of the Pontianak — a vengeful female ghost out of Malaysian folklore.

THE HAUNTING OF PLAY HOUSE - Dir. Chris McInroy

The team behind CHÄIR, SKEETER, WE JOINED A CULT, and GUTS returns once again, this time with a priest summoned to exorcise a demonic playhouse.

IT HELPS - Dir. John Zachary Thurman

When Spencer turns off her brother’s trusted vintage white noise machine, she soon finds out that getting enough beauty sleep is the least of his worries.

SCISSORS - Dir. Hannah Alline

A violent man on a petty revenge quest gets more than he could've possibly prepared for when he enters a den of queer baddies.

STRETCHER - Dir. Thibault Fauconnet

A woman’s neck injury becomes an exercise in protracted cinematic cruelty in this slow-burning, fixed-camera shocker from France.

TRANSFERENCE - Dir. Michael Zumaya

A hypnotherapy session with a traumatized patient leads one woman to a confrontation with the ambient darkness of her own past. An Austin-produced creeper that plays like a ghost transmission from the outer limits of Hell.

VAPE GLOW - Dir. Steven Schloss

Guided by the dying light of a vape pen's LED, this sleazy found footage POV film takes us to a place darker than the recesses of our embattled minds.

ZIPPY'S HOUSE - Dir. Sophia Parella

A boy is pressured by his mother to attend a lonely classmate’s birthday party, only to discover there was never a party at all — and a dreadful secret lurking within the apartment walls.