The Living Want Me Dead (23:04)
Bill Palmer; Halloween Short Films; IMDb; Vimeo; YouTube

So, this guy Howard is running away from people who want to kill him. Eventually he goes to his friend Teddy's place, and talks to him on the phone. This is when we learn what happened to Howard. He'd been involved in a science experiment, and after drinking some weird serum or whatever, he emits a pheromone that makes anyone he comes near vomit, and then turn into some sort of enraged zombie that wants to kill him. There's not much else I can say about the plot, but I thought the film was fairly original and clever and funny and genuinely horrifying. Oh, and it's set around Christmastime. (Though it takes place somewhere that apparently doesn't have winter.)