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Got 5 Minutes to Kill? Enjoy These 5 Horror Short Films
Life gets a little hectic at times, and when that occurs, we have to get our excitement in where we can. The influx of short horror films in recent years has given us a great opportunity to do just that. Each of the following short movies – save for one – comes in under the 5-minute mark. The one that’s a bit longer? It’s closer to 10 minutes, but it’s well worth the watch.
1. The Little Witch
This film starts out like so many others: a beautiful day simply being enjoyed. A father and daughter duo are having a blast in the yard, and they eventually take the fun inside where the day draws to a close. Once the little one is in bed, she falls victim to the fear that there might be a monster somewhere in the room. Based on this list’s focus, you can probably guess whether something is actually lurking in the darkness.
2. The Smiling Man
Most of us have had a creepy feeling whenever walking somewhere in the dark. Heck, some people refuse to even walk anywhere after sunset for this specific reason. The Smiling Man puts a face to this fear – albeit a smiling one. One thing that’s important to know, though: a smile isn’t always a good thing.
3. Eden
When you take out the credits of this video, you’re left with a horror short film that’s actually under three minutes. Other flicks on this list pull off the same timeframe, but a lot seems to happen in just the few seconds this film takes place. Because of that, I’ll stick with the official synopsis:
“As three friends head home after a late-night, they find themselves being stalked by a man’s greatest weakness.”
That’s all you need – if that! The movie is less than three minutes for crying out loud! If you don’t like it, you lost a whole three minutes. We lost way more than that watching the Cabin Fever remake.
4. Last Bus Home
This horror short tells a classic story, but I can’t really tell you which one without spoiling the unveiling. The basis of the story is that a young woman is sitting at a bus stop waiting for her way home. She runs into a young guy there, and a terrifying experience ensues. Will there be a happy ending? Again, it’s only three minutes long. You’ll find out soon enough.
5. Still Life
Okay, admittedly this horror short film is a little longer than five minutes. Only a little, though! We get started with a guy just riding along to an important destination, but when he comes into a strange town, weird things start happening almost immediately. Still Life is definitely this writer’s favorite of the bunch.
What are Your Favorite Horror Short Films?
Now that you’ve spent a little over 10 minutes enjoying these awesome mini flicks, did you get sucked into YouTube seeking out more? Did you find any horror short films that we didn’t include here (we know you did)? Tell us about them in the comments!
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‘Evil Dead’ Film Franchise Getting TWO New Installments
It was a risk for Fede Alvarez to reboot Sam Raimi’s horror classic The Evil Dead in 2013, but that risk paid off and so did its spiritual sequel Evil Dead Rise in 2023. Now Deadline is reporting that the series is getting, not one, but two fresh entries.
We already knew about the Sébastien Vaniček upcoming film that delves into the Deadite universe and should be a proper sequel to the latest film, but we are broadsided that Francis Galluppi and Ghost House Pictures are doing a one-off project set in Raimi’s universe based off of an idea that Galluppi pitched to Raimi himself. That concept is being kept under wraps.
“Francis Galluppi is a storyteller who knows when to keep us waiting in simmering tension and when to hit us with explosive violence,” Raimi told Deadline. “He is a director that shows uncommon control in his feature debut.”
That feature is titled The Last Stop In Yuma County which will release theatrically in the United States on May 4. It follows a traveling salesman, “stranded at a rural Arizona rest stop,” and “is thrust into a dire hostage situation by the arrival of two bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty-or cold, hard steel-to protect their bloodstained fortune.”
Galluppi is an award-winning sci-fi/horror shorts director whose acclaimed works include High Desert Hell and The Gemini Project. You can view the full edit of High Desert Hell and the teaser for Gemini below:
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‘Invisible Man 2’ Is “Closer Than Its Ever Been” to Happening
Elisabeth Moss in a very well-thought-out statement said in an interview for Happy Sad Confused that even though there have been some logistical issues for doing Invisible Man 2 there is hope on the horizon.
Podcast host Josh Horowitz asked about the follow-up and if Moss and director Leigh Whannell were any closer to cracking a solution to getting it made. “We are closer than we have ever been to cracking it,” said Moss with a huge grin. You can see her reaction at the 35:52 mark in the below video.
Whannell is currently in New Zealand filming another monster movie for Universal, Wolf Man, which might be the spark that ignites Universal’s troubled Dark Universe concept which hasn’t gained any momentum since Tom Cruise’s failed attempt at resurrecting The Mummy.
Also, in the podcast video, Moss says she is not in the Wolf Man film so any speculation that it’s a crossover project is left in the air.
Meanwhile, Universal Studios is in the middle of constructing a year-round haunt house in Las Vegas which will showcase some of their classic cinematic monsters. Depending on attendance, this could be the boost the studio needs to get audiences interested in their creature IPs once more and to get more films made based on them.
The Las Vegas project is set to open in 2025, coinciding with their new proper theme park in Orlando called Epic Universe.
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Jake Gyllenhaal’s Thriller ‘Presumed Innocent’ Series Gets Early Release Date
Jake Gyllenhaal’s limited series Presumed Innocent is dropping on AppleTV+ on June 12 instead of June 14 as originally planned. The star, whose Road House reboot has brought mixed reviews on Amazon Prime, is embracing the small screen for the first time since his appearance on Homicide: Life on the Street in 1994.
Presumed Innocent is being produced by David E. Kelley, J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, and Warner Bros. It is an adaptation of Scott Turow’s 1990 film in which Harrison Ford plays a lawyer doing double duty as an investigator looking for the murderer of his colleague.
These types of sexy thrillers were popular in the ’90s and usually contained twist endings. Here’s the trailer for the original:
According to Deadline, Presumed Innocent doesn’t stray far from the source material: “…the Presumed Innocent series will explore obsession, sex, politics and the power and limits of love as the accused fights to hold his family and marriage together.”
Up next for Gyllenhaal is the Guy Ritchie action movie titled In the Grey scheduled for release in January 2025.
Presumed Innocent is an eight-episode limited series set to stream on AppleTV+ starting June 12.
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