Joseph reviews four fear-fare shorts from Austria's SLASH Filmfestival.
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It's a Teddy Bear home invasion! So cuddly, and yet... so dangerous!
An intimidating humanoid robot, a preteen horror movie fan bent on terrorizing her babysitter, and a woman pursued by a debt collector during a zombie apocalypse were the subjects of three fantastic short films that recently screened at Another Hole in the Head Film Fest in San Francisco.
★★★★ out of ★★★★★
A Scottish, zombie, horror/comedy, Christmas musical! What's not to like??
Atlanta’s Women in Horror Film Festival offered a fine selection of shorts, including these tales of psychic baggage, inevitable doom,...
A bleak and intense conclusion to the Alien 40th Anniversary Short Film Project, Alien: Harvest is the most polished of the series.
The Acrylic, a Thingy Award write-in candidate for best Horror Short, is available for viewing right here! That painting is just plain wrong.
Horror-on-Sea Film Festival offered up a treasure trove of incredible fright-fare shorts. In this second installment of short-film reviews from...
Joseph reviews three **** short films from Vienna's SLASH Film Festival.
So this is what Neil Blomkamp has been up to! A Spectacular vision of what is to come for the horror short film medium.
Pure horror comedy gold! Delightfully silly, and soaked in blood. One of the highlights of the horror film circuit from 2018.
The Scariest Things normally doesn't post YouTube funny animal videos... but c'mon! Khaleesi is so awesome! She's a fan like you and me, barking warnings at the characters on screen.
As if life on a mining colony wasn’t tough enough. Alien: Night Shift is a prelude to some very bad...
Oh, these dollies are the give me the creepies! Our Patron and friend of the Podcast, Brian Jillson has some slightly (OK sometimes REALLY) disturbing toys that need homes. Are you brave enough to get one?
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!
It gives a whole new meaning to bloodsucker! Laugh out loud funny, and in really questionable taste...
★★★★ 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 trend-setting super scary short film that launched a million imitators.
Oats Studios brings you wacky and disturbing horror comedy takes on those awful 80's infomercials.
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!
Duuuude! Playing a wicked axe was never so apropos. AAAAIIIIIIIYYYEEEAAAH!!
He who breaks me shall become undone!
From the Horror Starter -Kit short film studio Crypt TV comes an award winning story of a boy and his protector.
"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!
Horror in Hebrew! It's a wonderfully twisty award winning Israeli horror short, with turns that you do not expect. Wicked, nasty and fun, check out the full short film here!
Coming soon to a genre festival near you! M.W. Daniels brings you House of Lexi, starring Emma Dark.
Project Greenlight alum Chris Capel wants to play a game with one of the biggest horror franchises around!
★★ 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 Trunk ★★★★ out of ★★★★★ Directed by Travis Laidlaw In Canadian supernatural shocker The Trunk, Marco (Craig Monk) and...
Ranging from the horrific to the hilarious, the short films showcased at Panic Fest have something for everyone.
