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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.)
Four teenagers go into an abandoned nuclear research facility to find the dog that one of them says went in there. To say anything else would be spoilery, but I will say I found the film fairly boring.
A group of dead people play pranks on the living. It's mildly amusing.
Conventional (9:04)
IMDb; Modern Horrors; Short of the Week; YouTube
This was written and directed by Karen Gillan, who also stars in the film. She plays Rachel Milligan, an actress who appeared in one horror movie and apparently hasn't gotten any work since. So now she just appears at conventions, which is a pretty horrific fate. It's an okay film, I guess, though the concept has been done better... or at least funnier. This one really is a tragedy, more than anything else. And on that level, this film is well done.
I saw it first on Fun Size Horror and later on Alter.
A janitor is cleaning up the viewing area for executions by electric chair. And... things get seriously creepy in a way I don't want to spoil.
I didn't exactly get this one. A woman is sort of monologueing about... doing creative things and putting yourself into your work, or whatever. I dunno. But the way it ends... yeah, I just didn't get it. (But I still sort of empathize with her, I guess.)
This is animated... it appears to be cut-out animation. A magician is given a chance to perform again after a poor previous performance. There are hints as to exactly what went wrong before, and that plays into the twist ending of his second performance. It's um... it's all pretty disturbing, but also darkly humorous.
The Fun Size Horror site says this is about the same character from "The Lover," in volume one, but I never would have figured that out on my own. I mean, it makes sense, but I think it just as easily could have been a different character in a totally unrelated horror short. But whatever. Um... a woman wakes up next to a guy she hooked up with last night. And... I don't know what else to say without spoiling anything. It's just kind of weird.
Some college girls are having a slumber party in what looks like some kind of sexploitation film, when they start having a pillow fight, during which at least one pillow gets destroyed. Cut to later that night, after the girls have gone to sleep, and the horror begins... the absolutely delightfully redonkulous, hilarious horror....
So... a guy moves into a new house. But the address doesn't appear on... any electronic devices like GPS or online maps or whatever. And... things just get weird.
A woman hears the voice of her daughter, I guess, and it tells her to "kill the demons." The FSH website mentions a drunk driving accident, but nothing like that appears in this film. Maybe the teenagers she kills are responsible for her daughter's death, but the film itself doesn't make that clear. Anyway, in addition to hearing voices, she also sees the people she's stalking as demons, though they don't really look like demons normally would look. And when she takes an axe to them, instead of gore we see something else, more like confetti or something. (It kind of reminded me of Kingsman.) I dunno what else to say, except I feel like this would be better as a feature than a short film.
An old man is haunted by the past, upon the death of his former costar on a sitcom they made together decades earlier. And that's all I can tell you.
I don't know if this is actually part of volume two or not. Wikipedia doesn't mention it (and I can't watch anything on Hulu), but it's on FSH's page for all the shorts from volume two. So I'll included it here. A very disturbed man kills and mutilates rats before pinning them to his wall. Or at least it seems like he's done this a lot, before the start of the film. Now he's doing it again with another rat, but... it's not quite clear whether this particular rat is real, or a figment of his deranged imagination. Anyway, it's definitely a disturbing film, particularly the ending.