Shocking & Spooky Saturday Shorts

Strange, unsettling — and sometimes even touching — bite-sized tales. From students to professionals, these filmmakers showcase a variety of styles and tones, celebrating some of the best short-form genre-filmmaking this year.
(9 short films•1hr 46 mins) More details & tickets

Film still from The Haunting of a Ghost

Ditched
An impulsive middle schooler playing a game of hide-and-seek soon realizes something sinister is hunting him and his friends.

USA / 2023 / 8 mins

Content Warnings: child endangerment

Mahogany Drive
In this comedy horror tale, three Black friends wake up to a nightmare: a dead white woman on the floor of their Airbnb. Tensions rise, sweat beads, and accusations fly, but they slowly come to a terrifying truth.

USA / 2022 / 13 mins

Content Warnings: death, blood, violence against women

Greed & Gore
After a bank robbery doesn't go exactly as planned, a crew of five pick a last minute safehouse to lay low with their take and a hostage. But the safehouse isn't so safe.

Canada / 2023 / 15 mins

Content Warnings: kidnapping, blood, gore, violence

We Forgot About The Zombies
Two dudes think they found the cure for zombie bites.

USA / 2022 / 4 mins

Content Warnings: gore, blood, body horror

Wormies
In 1980s suburbia, a distant family is forced to come together when the Summer's hottest new toy, a cute aquatic pet, mutates into a repulsive monster.

Canada / 2023 / 20 mins

Content Warnings: blood, violence

The Haunting of a Ghost
Walter can't wait for the Johnsons to move into their new house, his personal haunting ground. But when the family arrive with a demon in tow, Walter is in for one hell of a scare-off.

Canada / 2023 / 16 mins

Content Warnings: N/A

Below Snakes
When a group of bandits ambush a traveling merchant, they find out that one man's treasure is another's curse.

USA / 2022 / 5 mins

Content Warnings: blood, gore

Mickey Dogface
Halloween night, three friends high in a van, and an urban legend surrounding a cult singer's mysterious death in a fire - what could go wrong?

USA / 2023 / 10 mins

Content Warnings: gore, jump scare

Nosepicker
A 'tale of the unexpected' about an 8-year-old schoolboy with a nasty habit of picking his nose.
"It was great... Snot what I expected." -Joe Dante, director of "Gremlins"

UK / 2023 / 16 mins

Content Warnings: flashing lights, blood, bullying, gross