Hello short film fans! It’s been a frightful 3 whole years since we last produced a Halloween Horror Playlist. Way, way too long. So here’s an update, an exhaustive list of new, terrifying (and terrifyingly funny) shorts from the last 2 years, drawn from our spooky deep archives. Check out our curated YouTube Show episode from last week as well if this can’t sate your horrific appetite.
Happy scares!
The SotW Team.
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An emotional robot reconciles his feelings of loss—through butchery! A VFX horror short, being adapted into a feature by MGM.
A young girl rescued from a pack of zombies soon discovers that the walking dead aren't the only thing to fear in this post-apocalyptic world.
A father daughter driving lesson quickly escalates into horror.
As gravity appears to fail all around them, the inhabitants of a neighbourhood begin to mysteriously float into the sky.
Set on one fateful night, six friends gather for their monthly ‘games night’… and accidentally unleash a demonic force that might tear them and their friendships to pieces. Part of the Bloody Cuts anthology.
**CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE** - Stranded in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, a man sets in motion an unlikely plan to protect the precious cargo he carries: his infant daughter
The "true" story of Sophia, a young woman dealing with a rare and very dangerous condition.
A secret order of priests guards the thin border between our world and the realm of darkness in this inventive horror film from Argentina.
#FUNNYSCARY
This holiday season, ask if you know where your Teddy Bear really comes from.
Jesus doesn't only raise Lazarus from the dead...A hilarious, campy retelling of what didn't make it into the Bible.
Paul jerked off in the shower. Paul just impregnated his bath tub. Last year's most outrageous Sundance short, now online.
On this Labor Day I hope your holiday goes better than Señor Olivares'. While trying to relax on the beach, Sea Monsters come to slaughter everyone.
You may like having a good lunch in a quiet place as a park... But what if your lunch doesn't? In the street everyone can hear you scream, but honestly who cares?
#LONGSHORTS
A family of evangelical Christians traveling through upstate New York give a ride to an unusual knife salesman
Late Night Work Club, a collective comprised of the most promising minimalist animators on the internet, releases their first project—an omnibus of shorts that tell stories from the great beyond.
Can the dead truly take revenge? Taylor seeks to hide his sins in hopes that they will go unnoticed and become no more than a dirty little secret...
The scientist who cured the Z virus is hiding a secret from this zombie-infected world.
"The films that end up in the programme selection are the survivors of a very bloody battle" - Manchester Animation Festival's Steve Henderson is the latest interviewee in our Meet the Gatekeepers series.
Jason Sondhi