Gavin York is a struggling filmmaker who stumbles upon a box of tapes left behind by two teenagers who were aspiring filmmakers themselves. The box is ominously labeled "DON'T WATCH!" Undeterred, Gavin dives into the roughly forty uncut tapes, piecing them together to complete what the teens never did, eleven years ago. As he delves deeper, he learns the tapes document their investigation into a local urban legend, The Peeping Tom, a supernatural entity said to get closer every time…

Saturday Night Shorts: Film 275

AT 12:05 YOU WILL BE VISITED BY THE CRAFTSMEN.

June, 1984. Jeremy G. Wilkins is an M.I.T. student that accidentally invents a computer program codenamed PARAGON that can predict the future. This leads to a visit from the mysterious entity that runs the world from the shadows.

Paragon may only be twelve minutes long but it packs quite a bit of suspense and a very interesting premise into that entire runtime. It's supported by a…

Scariest Monsters in America is another entry in the Tubi original Scaristest series of documentaries that harken back to the old television shows featuring questionable "experts" of the strange, paranormal, and supernatural on both network and cable television. Those shows were basically the prerequisite to the once popular YouTube "list channels" in which a topic would be broken down into a "Top 10" list of short summaries that all focus on a primary subject.

This documentary covers what it deems…

"They will say that have shed innocent blood but what's blood for if not for shedding?"

Helen Lyle is a college student writing a thesis on urban legends, and her research leads her to the murder of a woman who locals believe was killed by the mysterious "Candyman." Candyman is said to be a tortured soul with a hook for a hand. Though he died years ago, he continues to haunt the residents of Chicago's Cabrini Green housing projects, appearing…

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Saturday Night Shorts: Film 267

A young woman is putting on her makeup one morning and looks out the window to see a terrifying sight in her back yard. A creepy individual in a mask staring up at her window. Her father calls her on the phone and she describes the situation to him only to get an unexpected response. "DON'T LOOK AWAY!"

Don't Look Away is a solid short film that…

31 DAYS OF HORROR 2024 - Film 28

I usually start my film reviews with a short blurb but this is the kind of flick that hit me right in the noggin and influenced me to take a new approach.

Caddo Lake surprised me in the best way. Coming into it, I expected a horror flick, given the foggy swampy Louisiana bayou setting and M. Night Shyamalan’s producer credit. Instead this film took a very different path, diving into a…

31 DAYS OF HORROR 2024 - Film 26

Saturday Night Shorts: Film 265

It's moving day so a family and a group of movers are setting up the boxes and furniture in their new home. A beautiful old house that they got for a suspiciously cheap price. When night falls they quickly discover that what is so beautiful in the light can be just as terrifying in the dark.

Ghost House is an interesting project. It starts of with a…

31 DAYS OF HORROR 2024 - Film 25

Dani is beckoned to the door of a new house she's renovating by a strange individual. The next day, she's found murdered in a gruesome fashion. It's been almost a year since her twin sister Dani died that night, in what everyone believes was the work of a psychopath. Her twin, Darcy, who is blind and owns an antique shop brimming with macabre objects, reconnects with her ex-brother-in-law to dive deeper into…

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Saturday Night Shorts: Film 264

"Let me in..."

A woman goes to sleep at night only to be started by a horrifying lurking presence in the dark.

Countless horror films are terrible at nailing the aspect of darkness. Sometimes even on purpose to hide the shortcomings of a low budget or less than stellar looking entity. The Hag is not one of those, in fact it does an excellent job at pairing…

31 DAYS OF HORROR 2024 - Film 21

An adopted documentary filmmaker aims to interview her first known biological relative, Samuel, a man who recently left the Amish community. When she meets him he brings her and her friends back to the family farm where she is invited to spend a few days. During her time on the farm she discovers far more than she could have ever expected. Something evil. This is their footage.

Its been a busy week…

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Saturday Night Shorts: Film 262

A man enters his car in a dark public parking garage. He reverses out of the spot but doesn't get far when his vehicle's rear camera alerts him that he is close to hitting something. He peers into the camera and sees nothing behind him in the area lit by his lights, and a dark void far beyond their reach. As the alerts grow in intensity he…

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Saturday Night Shorts: Film 261

"Are you ever really alone?"

Home alone while his mother is in the hospital, Seth begins to experience strange phenomena in the house.

Heavy Eyes is a six-minute long short horror film by Curry Barker, the same director who created the excellent direct-to-YouTube horror flick Milk and Serial. This is a strange little film with an ending that I totally did not expect. It was awesome! Most…