This year’s edition of SXSW runs from March 12–18 in Austin, Texas, and along with the lineup of intriguing features is an array of equally interesting short films of interest to horror cinema aficionados. I’ve been fortunate to have an early look at the following three shorts and can give them my strong recommendation.
Descriptions are from official press information, and links are to the films’ SXSW pages.
The Seeing Eye Dog Who Saw Too Much
In 1975, Italian director Enrico Januzzi began filming a giallo set in Rome — a feverish tale of a blind violinist who rises to first chair of the symphony, only to find herself stalked as a black-gloved killer murders her fellow musicians one by one. The only witness: her seeing-eye dog. Production collapsed after a week, and the footage was presumed lost, until its rediscovery in 2025. Painstakingly restored by WBAZ Films, this surviving fragment is presented here for the very first time. Directed by Eric Jackowitz, and starring Anna Garcia with a cameo from SNL alum Melissa Villaseñor.
https://schedule.sxsw.com/films/2241644
In My Blood
WORLD PREMIERE. Thriller/Horror, Sports. Desperate to live up to his father’s expectations, a talented but inconsistent minor league baseball player turns to steroids. What begins as a shortcut to greatness morphs into a grotesque transformation of flesh and mind, and the beast he’s becoming may not be metaphorical at all.
https://schedule.sxsw.com/films/2241710
Man Eating Pussy
A dying man seeks comfort in a mysterious sex worker whose monstrous anatomy offers not just pleasure—but the ultimate release.
https://schedule.sxsw.com/films/2241633
