Sinister & 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.
(12 short films•2 hrs) More details & tickets
Film still from Never Let You Go
Naualli
A grieving man seeks revenge, unwittingly awakening a mystical creature known as the Nagual.
Mexico / 2024 / 6 mins
Content Warnings: gore, horror goo
Dummy!
An aspiring singer struggles to free herself from her controlling mother - a ventriloquist doll who experienced stardom in her youth.
USA / 2023 / 13 mins
Content Warnings: eating disorder, body shaming, puppet murder, fatphobia
All Kinds of Animals
Experienced hiker Hannah has an unexpected encounter after reaching the summit.
USA / 2024 / 8 mins
Content Warnings: mild violence, implied death
HADO
Javi, an unfaithful, powerful man, drives down a poorly lit, infrequently traveled road by night. He’s returning home from a supposed work trip. In the blink of an eye, one mistake will change Javi’s life forever.
Spain / 2023 / 12 mins
Content Warnings: car accidents, blood, death
Washed Up
A tired model decides to take back control of her life from her sleazy modeling agent.
USA / 2023 / 3 mins
Content Warnings: decapitation
Never Let You Go
A young woman’s traumatic past resurfaces when a mysterious box arrives on her doorstep, setting forth a horrifying reality.
USA / 2024 / 16 mins
Content Warnings: suicide, blood, body horror, possession, jump scare
Izzy
Izzy slowly realizes that she doesn’t want to admit to societal expectations anymore.
Netherlands / 2024 / 5 mins
Content Warnings: sex, masturbation, intense sound, blood
Pound For Pound
While an amateur MMA fighter struggles to make rent, he receives a mysterious offer that leads him to the dark and cult-like world of the super-rich.
USA / 2024 / 20 mins
Content Warnings: violence
Whittled Down
Carlisle has been trapped in this cabin for a long, long time. There are no doors, and the windows only open to an endless black void. With nothing to do but whittle and wait, a single thought lingers at the forefront of his mind: there's something wrong with that clock.
USA / 2024 / 5 mins
Content Warnings: disturbing imagery
Inked
After Dylan’s father passes away in prison, her attempts to honor his memory become eerily dark when she decides to tattoo her father’s ashes into her skin. But the sentimental tribute quickly turns sinister...
USA / 2024 / 14 mins
Content Warnings: parental death, blood, body horror, insects, body horror WITH insects, needles, goo, blood, vomit
We Joined a Cult
Two friends on their way to a game of kickball find themselves incessantly pressured to join an incompetent satanic cult.
USA / 2023 / 4 mins
Content Warnings: gore, blood
The Chain
A family's life is thrown into chaos when the father doesn't return home one night.
USA / 2024 / 15 mins
Content Warnings: offscreen violence