Dark Nights Film Fest shorts reviews
Urima — A Tale of Three Fishermen
★★★★★ out of ★★★★★
Intensity 🩸🩸🩸🩸 out of 🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸
Bestiary
★★★★★ out of ★★★★★
Intensity 🩸🩸🩸1/2 out of 🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸
Camp Omega (U.S.)
★★★★ out of ★★★★★
Intensity 🩸🩸🩸 out of 🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸
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The Scariest Things previews a sextet of international short shockers from Sydney's Dark Nights Film Fest.
The Horror Short Film Director Roundtable is one of the most important things that we did at the Portland Horror Film Festival. It provided an elevated platform for horror short filmmakers. Oftentimes, this is ground zero for original horror ideas. Unless you are a Hollywood nepo-director, short film creation is where you learn your chops. I wanted to give these creatives an opportunity to share their experiences in making movies, both good and bad, so that we can all learn a little more about the craft.
The Scariest Things has some short film recommendations for Panic Fest 2026!
Here's a trio of short horror shorts premiering at SXSW 2026.
The Scariest Things has some more FilmQuest short film recommendations for you!
The Scariest Things has our first installment of short film recommendations from FilmQuest 2025!
Horror Shorts are often the heartbeat of horror film festivals. They are frequently overlooked by audiences, but not at this year's Overlook Film Festival. Each session was full of horror fans, which was great. Listen in to these emerging directors and writers for insight into how to make festival-worthy films.
Horror short STRRANGE CREATURES debuts online.
Joseph reviews 4 short films from Film Maudit 2.0.
Going back to where it all started, director Lorenzo P. Adams takes some very fun liberties and a poke a the Michael Myers mythos. Make no mistake Halloween '63 is not a comedy, but a bone chilling black and white adaptation of the night where it all began.
Joseph reviews four fear-fare shorts from Austria's SLASH Filmfestival.
Hole, Incomplete, and La Vedova Nera reviews from the 2023 SLASH Filmfestival
Sea Lemon, the Seattle based dreampop project of heralded emerging artist Natalie Lew has released a horror homage laden video for her latest release "Vaporized". See the whole video here, and see if you can count the tropes!
The Scariest Things has the trailer and poster reveal for Asian horror short BORDER.
★★★ out of ★★★★★
The Quantum Devil
★★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★
Darker
★★★★ out of ★★★★★
Virgil
Reviews of three films from Romford Horror Festival.
Joseph reviews three ★★★★ out of ★★★★★ horror shorts from the U.K.'s Romford Horror Festival.
Joseph reviews three ★★★★ out of ★★★★★ short films from Another Hole in the Head Film Festival: 7 MINUTES IN HELL, ANGEL CITY HORROR, and THE WELL.
Prom Car '91 ★★★★ out of ★★★★★
Gnomes ★★★★ out of ★★★★★
Joseph reviews two excellent shorts from Nightmares Film Festival.
The Trunk ★★★★ out of ★★★★★ Directed by Travis Laidlaw In Canadian supernatural shocker The Trunk, Marco (Craig Monk) and...
Joseph reviews three **** short films from Vienna's SLASH Film Festival.
Ranging from the horrific to the hilarious, the short films showcased at Panic Fest have something for everyone.
The thrilling horror short "The Relic" manages to pull off the incredible in satisfying both the academic Lovecraft purists and those who want a spectacular body horror showcase. For those in the know, this may be the definitive screen depiction of the crawling chaos, the old God, Nyarlathotep.
The Scariest Things loves its short horror films, and we had the privilege to talk with director Tim Shechmeister who gave us our favorite horror short from the extensive roster of great shorts that played at the Portland Horror Film Festival. Check out an exclusive release of Hello? right here in this post!
Dolls are creepy. Ventriloquist dummies add on the extra creep factor. Finley takes advantage of all the established history of the evil dummy tropes that came before it and flips all expectations in the most amusing and satisfying way.
"What Could Possibly Go Wrong?" The most accursed of curse tropes is brought to hilarious proportions in one of our favorite horror shorts from the Portland Horror Film Festival in 2019, now released on Alter... and now The Scariest Things!
★★ out of ★★★★★ The horror anthology is one of the true staples of the horror genre. Always clever, always engaging. As we’ve said before, anthology horror is the traditional extension of gathering around ye' ole campfire and scaring the hell out of each other. They hearken back to the oldest root forms of scary storytelling. It’s always frightening to hear a scary story, until it’s not.
The festival circuit was strong in 2020 with lots of great horror shorts. These 10 horror shorts made it on to our 2021 Thingy Awards. Check out the full short films included for your review!
★★★★ out of ★★★★★ "Timely, topical, and terrific." Well that's what the Scariest Things Podcast would say if Variety came calling for a pull quote. Joe Burke's (Four Dogs) brand spanking new horror short Desert Quarantine is a perfect reflection of a perfect reflection of society's current spate of worry, hate, fear, and confusion.
The Acrylic, a Thingy Award write-in candidate for best Horror Short, is available for viewing right here! That painting is just plain wrong.