Freaky & Funny Friday Shorts
Short stories... with long shadows. From student films to professional productions, and covering a delightful and dark variety of genres, we invite you to gaze upon the titles hidden deep within in our shelves. See what stories stay with you. For tonight… or for eternity.
(14 short films•1 hr 52 mins) More details & tickets
Film still from Dormant
Dormant
Night. Snow. A red car. A taxi driver picks up a silent stranger and drives her along an empty road. To the hypnotic words of H. P. Lovecraft's Beyond the Wall of Sleep, familiar reality slowly begins to dissolve, revealing a vast and ancient presence beyond human perception.
Russian Federation / 2026 / 6 mins
In Russian with English subtitles
Content Warnings: flashing lights
Ghost Light
A surreal short film that reminds us we all carry a light within us.
USA / 2025 / 4 mins
Content Warnings: N/A
Check Please
Two headstrong Koreans can't agree on who's treating who to dinner, causing their casual restaurant outing to spiral into a martial arts deathmatch.
USA / 2025 / 10 mins
Content Warnings: blood, violence
Breeder
A woman on the fence about having kids becomes hunted in her home by a demonic horse-man of Filipino folklore...
USA / 2026 / 8 mins
Content Warnings: drinking, pregnancy, body horror, blood, religious trauma, goo
Red Razor on Soft Skin
A giallo horror film about Benny Lazar, a timid son forced by his mother Moira to get a shave and a haircut from a mysterious barber. What ensues is a technicolor nightmare of love, hate, betrayal, and self-destruction.
USA / 2026 / 14 mins
Content Warnings: blood
Blindsided
A blind schoolteacher struggles to survive through a nightmarish night when an alien spaceship crashes and unleashes a monstrous predator. This unique horror short film features an all low-vision cast and places the audience in the POV of a blind protagonist who is only able to hear what happens around her.
USA / 2025 / 8 mins
Content Warnings: loud noises, violence
Vape Glow
Guided by the POV of a dying vape light, Mike puffs around a vacation rental, illuminating it during a strange blackout.
USA / 2026 / 5 mins
Content Warnings: flashing lights, nudity, gore, violence, horror goo, smoking
Final Girl
A girl wakes up hungover after a Halloween party, oblivious to the killer hunting her down and how she’s the only surviving partygoer.
USA / 2026 / 3 mins
Content Warnings: blood, alcohol use
Get Into the Spirit
While attempting to communicate with a handsome ghost haunting their house, two husbands discover there are many ways a spirit can reach out from beyond the grave.
USA / 2026 / 5 mins
Content Warnings: N/A
Prey For Us
After a house party, a woman leaves with a charming stranger, only to share unsettling truths that shatter their perceptions of each other.
USA / 2025 / 7 mins
Content Warnings: blood, violence, misogyny
A Study on the Monstrous Feminine
An experimental piece in four parts focusing on the idea of the females descent into a monster through puberty and sexual awakening that challenges the cultural mythology of womanhood, gender, and femininity in relation to monstrosity.
USA / 2025 / 15 mins
Content Warnings: blood, gore, implied sexual assault, flashing lights, shadow genital violence
Brian Won't Wear Condoms
An alternative contraceptive procedure tests the relationship between a wellness influencer and her skeptical best friend.
USA / 2025 / 12 mins
Content Warnings: blood, mutilation, gore
CHÄIR
Carl just wanted to sit down. The chair had other plans.
USA / 2025 / 7 mins
Content Warnings: blood, flashing lights, satanism
Knifeman
Mild-mannered IRS Agent Horatio Hunt must suit up and become a hero to save his city from a sinister sorceress. A dark and twisted horror take on classic tokusatsu media like Ultraman and Power Rangers, exploring perspective when it comes to justice, and the implicit undercurrent of fascism in superheroes.
USA / 2025 / 15 mins
Content Warnings: flashing lights, violence, gunshots, blood, gore, disembowelment
