tek's rating: ¼

Happy Halloween (3:25)
arieScope; Horrors of Halloween; Vimeo; YouTube

ArieScope's 16th Halloween short film, from 2014. (I'm watching it in 2022.) Shawn Ashmore plays a man who has a video call with his wife (Brea Grant) on Halloween. We see his home in the background, but his wife just appears in a black void of some sort, and she doesn't seem as happy to talk to him as he is to talk to her. Eventually we find out why, and it didn't completely surprise me, but it's still a very effective and disturbing twist.


Halloween shorts index

ArieScope Halloween short films

1. Columbus Day Weekend / 2. Stagefright / 3. Oh, Sherrie / 4. Steven's Room / 5. The Real World Hollywood
6. Midnight / 7. Trick or Treat / 8. King in the Box / 9. The Tiffany Problem / 10. The TiVo
11. Jack Chop / 12. Just Take One / 13. Downloading and You / 14. Driving Lessons / 15. Halloween Hugs
16. Happy Halloween / 17. Monster Problems / 18. Don't Do It / 19. A Holliston Halloween / 20. The Intervention
21. Pumpkin Dick / 22. Full Size / 23. Ghost Dog / 24. Halloween Costume Cruelty / 25. Halloween Socks
26. The Pet Sitter