SHORT FILM SESSION: SH!T SCARED

SHORT FILM SESSION Sh!t Scared assembles the year’s most bonechilling, atmospheric shorts. Hauntings, demonic possession, and a host of psychotic killers populate these eerie shorts, best watched in pitch black for full blood curdling effect.

BEDTIME

Dir. Gemma Lee | 6 mins | Australia | Horror | AUS Premiere | 2018 A single mother struggles to look after her young son. When she finds bruises on his body, she becomes concerned that someone is hurting him and is forced to confront the evil presence that inhabits their home.

DOUBLE TAP

Dir. EROS V | 3 mins | USA | Horror | AUS Premiere | 2020 Chilli, a screen-obsessed teen, ignores an instagram chainmail warning her to ‘like this post’ or The Dickless Troll will ‘eat her blood.’ Big mistake. In the dead of night she receives a visit from The Dickless Troll - a hairless cretin with mangled thumbs. He’s hungry, for blood. And validation.

FERINE

Dir. Andrea Corsini | 17 mins | Italy | Horror | AUS Premiere | 2019 A woman wanders in the big and empty parking lots following a man who she seems to want to ambush. From her gestures something furious and menacing emerges. Everything seems to draw back to a woods beyond her abandoned home, a place that hides the true nature of her actions.

LAURA HASN’T SLEPT

Dir. Parker Finn | 11 mins | USA | Horror | AUS Premiere | 2020 Desperate to rid herself of a recurring nightmare, a young woman seeks help from her therapist.

MUSHI

Dir. Odin Jurray | 12 mins | Australia | Horror | AUS Premiere | 2019 As a nested parasite rapidly grows inside the skull of a young woman, she has one night to determine her fate.

REGRET

Dir. Santiago Menghini | 16 mins | COUNTRY | Horror | AUS Premiere | 2020 Following the death of his father, a man must survive the manifestations of his inner demons over the course of a dreary night.

SATANIC PANIC 87

Dir. Bryan M. Ferguson | 4 mins | Scotland | Horror | AUS Premiere | 2019 It’s 1987 and two metalheads have opened a gateway to hell under the instructions of a

satanic aerobics tape.

TAYLOR AND VANESSA

Dir. Christina Santa Cruz | 17 mins | USA | Horror | AUS Premiere | 2019 Taylor and Vanessa examine what it means to be in danger. Through the course of one evening the two women must choose to either confront the object of their horror or resign

themselves to their inevitable fate.

THE DEVIL’S HARMONY

Dir. Dylan Holmes Williams | 14 mins | UK | Horror | Aus Premiere | 2019 A bullied teenage girl leads an a cappella club on a trail of destruction against her high school enemies