Flamedrop Fest: Best Horrorfest short films

Total running time: 116 mins

 

MACABRE 

(Lisbon) 

This superb animated piece has a man enter a mysterious building after crashing his car on a backwater road late at night. His surreal evening has only just begun...

Directed by Jerónimo Rocha, João Miguel Real

20 mins

 

(Canada) 

Hilarious short starring the late great wrestler Roddy Piper as a maintenance man who stumbles upon two old men opening a portal to hell in the building's basement. 

Directed by Vivieno Caldinelli

13 mins

 

THE CHICKENING 

(USA / Canada) 

An audacious but irresistibly wild and funny CGI-heavy remix of Stanley Kubrick's legendary adaptation of Stephen King's The Shining, starring Jack Nicholson.

Directed by Nick DenBoer & Dave Foss (and Stanley Kubrick of course)

5 mins

 

(France / Luxembourg)

A brilliant tale of a man who returns to his childhood home with his son… where the real tooth mouse wants what it's due at all cost…

Directed by Pascal Thiebaux

13 mins

 

ARCANA 

(Portugal)

A witch locked up in a dungeon cannot be confined.

Directed by Jerónimo Rocha

12 mins

 

(Spain) 

A woman fears for her and her child's life when a malevolent presence lurks behind them in photographs.

Directed by Ángel Gómez Hernandez

15 mins

 

MARKED 

(South Africa) 

A woman receives a Betamax tape in an unmarked envelope.  After pulling an old player from the closet and watching it, the image of a moon leads to some shocking events.

Directed by Paul A. Blom

6 mins

 

(Sweden) 

Fantastic short chiller (which got picked up by the creator of the Saw & Conjuring series, and expanded into a full movie, which won Best Feature Film at the SA HorrorFest) 

Directed by David F. Sandberg

3 mins

 

PESANTA 

(Spain)

SA HorrorFest Best Monster winner

A young nurse looking after her aunt discovers the state of paranoia experienced by the old lady due to sleep paralysis, eventually attacked by her own fears.

Directed by Ángel Valera

20 mins

 

(Germany) 

Loony German clip.

Directed by Loffl Sascha

2 mins

 

(Spain) 

Horridly funny short has a girl with a bit of an anatomical anomaly unable to avoid public scrutiny.

Directed by Eduardo Casanova

4 mins