SYNOPSIS: A struggling paparazzo gets pulled into a mad pageant manager’s plot to win Miss America while trying to break the story. REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have MACHINE BABY, written and directed by Sean Richard Budde. This film was awarded the title of “Best WTF Short Film” at the GenreBlast Film Festival. If that acronym means what …

SYNOPSIS: A young nihilistic girl enjoys the wealth of suburbia. REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have A DEATH STORY CALLED GIRL, written and directed by Bas-Tzion Beahan (AKA Nathalia Margot Pizarro). This is her directorial debut. I would also like to note that Ms. Beahan has a lot of history in performing arts, having studied theater and film …

SYNOPSIS: A disappointing Christmas Eve takes a turn for the worse when a young woman receives an ominous nutcracker as a gift. REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have EVE OF THE NUTCRACKER, A short film from Canada written and directed by Kyle Martellacci. We’ve all spent at least one miserable Christmas in our lives. The one that follows …

SYNOPSIS: A bullied schoolboy takes drastic measures against his tormenter, summoning an ancient being in the woods using a spellbound book passed down through the generations of his family. REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have a lovely bit of folk horror from the UK called THE BIRCH, written and directed by Ben Franklin and Anthony Melton. This film …

SYNOPSIS: The story of The Killer – a would be serial killer who just can’t get it right despite his best efforts. Told in a mockumentary-style from the perspective of The Killer himself, his friends James and Dale – and his mom Rita. REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have 37% PURE EVIL (my latest nominee for Best Film …

REVIEW: More short fims, kiddies! Today we have UNDERWATER (with the alternate titles UNDER THE WATER and UNDER THE SEA, according to my research), written and directed by Eugene Puzyrevsky. Our story opens on a girl (Ksenia Radchenko) preparing for a lovely bath. Seems like a pretty normal situation, except she thought she was alone. She isn’t. There is no …

SYNOPSIS: A young man is on the road to visit is girlfriend, when he stops to give a man a ride, but this man is a serial killer in disguise, while driving through a forest, Silva starts a weird conversation with Ricardo, he then realizes that the stranger proves to be a psychopath, and starts to play a tragic and …

OM friggin Dog! Here he is again, the amazing Demonboy!! For those of you not familiar with this freakshow, The Demonboy Band is a mobile Halloween rock and roll show. If you’ve been following my columns and reviews here for a while, you may recall an interview I did at Rock The Dead 2 with The Demon Boy. Inspired by …

SYNOPSIS: Short Film by Gigglyboy called “The ATM”. REVIEW: I gots some more short films for you, folks! Today we have THE ATM, an animated short from gigglyboy.com. GigglyBoy appears to be a website where a collective of computer animators create short clips of surrealism and entertainment. This film features music by a hip-hop artist called Tunsi.

SYNOPSIS: Rosa’s father escapes from a nursing home and comes back to his former house. He hides a secret, and he’s not coming alone. REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have LA PESTE (The Plague), a short film from Uruguay written and directed by Guillermo Carbonell. This film was the winner for Best International Short Film at Buenos Aires …

SYNOPSIS: Jonathan and Elizabeth are deeply in love. But their relationship is tested when Elizabeth becomes afflicted by a devastating illness. Follow Jonathan’s emotional journey as he struggles to deal with inevitable tragedy, and discover what lengths he’s willing to go to, For Her. REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have FOR HER, a short from the UK written …

SYNOPSIS: In this handmade collaboration, a shy Wolf tries to connect with a group of hip, party-loving Bunnies but finds her body is in revolt. REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have THE ITCHING, an animated short written and directed by Dianne Bellino. When I say animated, I actually mean “claymation”, stop motion photography. I don’t see much of …

  More short films, kiddies! Today we have THE OTHER ONE, written by Lorcan Reilly and directed by Simon Rickards. This is another artist collective created film, this time from a group called Godiva Films based in the UK. This is a fairly new group, formed in 2016 but based around a production company founded by Mr. Rickards in 2005 …

SYNOPSIS: This horror-comedy pays tribute to the old-school slasher genre with a modern-day twist! REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have THE FIGURE, written by D. Duckie Rodriquez and Shiva Rodriquez, directed by Shiva Rodriquez. Our story opens on a bunch of meddling kids out camping in the haunted woods… No really. See, our group of characters are out …

SYNOPSIS: Military elite are selected to endure a horrifying survival test with an isolated old woman in uncharted Siberia. Few have survived, but those who return, enter an apocalyptic special forces cu