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This is a website that, I guess, collects horror short films. And maybe produces some. I'm really not clear on how many are created specifically by/for this site, and how many are just acquired by it. In any event, there have been some anthology films created by the site, made up of a bunch of short films. Some of them may have first been shown individually on this site, and some have been show elsewhere before appearing here. (And maybe some appeared here first, but later appeared elsewhere, either individually or as part of other anthologies.) The first two anthology films were both released in 2015 (volume 1 on Amazon and volume 2 on Hulu). There was another anthology film released on Amazon in 2018, called "Dark, Deadly & Dreadful." And... I guess there are some shorts that appear on the site, which as far as I know haven't yet been included in any anthologies, but they may be in the future. Time will tell.
(Shorts are listed in the order they appear within the anthology films. Unanthologized shorts are listed alphabetically.)
Meh. I didn't really get this one.
(Amazon only.) A young boy is in bed at night, when he hears a knocking coming from inside his closet. He goes to investigate, and... that's all I want to say. It's not much of a story, but it's reasonably creepy.
A little girl named Sophia (who reminds me of Shirley Temple) is enjoying her sixth birthday party. She's scared when a woman dressed as a princess shows up, but when the princess goes away, she gets a gift from her parents: a puppy. Sophia likes that better, but... the way the film ends is... I can't even tell you.
(Amazon only.) Two women and a guy move into a new house. The women find a creepy doll in the attic. And then... creepy things happen.
(Amazon only.) There are two English gentlemen (actually hand puppets, I mean the kind that are just hands) are having a conversation about lunch. One of them had eaten some weird eggs. Things take a very Lovecraftian turn, but the whole film is just redonkulous.
(Vimeo.) This stars Amy Dallen, whom I vaguely know from some shows on Geek & Sundry that I've only seen a bit of. It's shot in black & white. There's a woman who's home at night, and suddenly hears some screaming coming from nowhere in particular. Then a sort of vortex opens, and um... that's all I can say.
A woman finds herself buried alive. She manages to get free, but that turns out to be just the beginning of the horrors that presumably await her.
Meh. I didn't really get this one.
(Amazon only.) Five girls have been brought together for a reality show that isn't what it seems. It turns out, they're expected to vote on which one of them should be eliminated. Literally.
Two friends engage in a series of really stupid activities, any one of which could kill one or the other of them.
A woman seems to be deeply distraught over a breakup, to the point she's willing to do some pretty disturbing self-harm. But the twist ending is even more disturbing.
(Amazon only.) A woman is weirded out by the little boy who lives next door, who just says one word at a time, always something seemingly random. Although I started to get a vague sense of what the words were about, which made it seem really creepy when he said the word "people." Still, it's awhile before we meet his mother, who explains what the words mean. And that confirms that I was right to find it creepy, yet somehow neither woman seems to notice or worry about that one word. That kind of made it hard for me to take the film as seriously as I wanted to, because how the hell could they miss that? Still, the very end is frightening. So overall, I thought it was a decent slice of horror.
A man invites a woman over to his place for dinner. Things seem to go well, and she spends the night. But the man's dog... well, the dog's name is Norman, and let's just say he's aptly named. And things get very disturbing. I suppose this is meant to be darkly humorous, but I definitely found it to be much heavier on the "dark" than the "humor."
(Amazon only.) Three friends are at home watching a horror movie. But the film we're watching is broken up into four separate quadrants, one for each of the friends and a fourth for... someone else. So, it looks kind of like a multi-player FPS game, or something. I guess. Anyway, things soon take a deadly turn.
(Amazon only.) The film is shot in black & white. There's almost no dialogue, just music, as a man walks into an empty theater, followed by a creepy shadow, which eventually turns out to be a woman. And um... I dunno what else to say. I didn't really get the point of any of it, but it was all very artistic.
A woman gets an ultrasound to determine her baby's sex. The image on the monitor creeped me the fuck out, but strangely, it didn't seem to bother the mother. When she gets home... we find out why, and things get even creepier. AF.
I didn't really get this.
A man is about to propose to a woman named Rose, but then he disappears. Rose searches for him, but she seems to shift between this reality and another, more sinister reality. And that's all I can really tell you.
(Amazon only.) This one is just comedy. A few magical roommates are having a petty magical duel, and it's pretty ridiculous.
A newly married couple are lying in bed at night, when the woman's young daughter from a previous marriage joins them, because she's afraid of a monster in her closet. When her mother and stepfather take her back to her room to reassure her there's nothing there, the girl says the monster is called Mr. Hendrix, which the stepfather remembers as the monster in the closet from his own childhood. So he believes the girl, and vows to protect her. However, there's a twist he didn't see coming, and it's definitely a scary end to the film.
(Amazon only.) A young model goes to the home studio of a photographer she's going to be working with. He takes some pictures, and while each snap of the camera sounds (at least to the viewer) like gunshots or something, the photo session seems to go well. Then the photographer asks to take one final picture, for his private collection, using a "special" camera. And again, that seems to go alright, and the girl leaves. But back in the photographer's studio, we see... well, I won't say what, but it really shouldn't come as a surprise.