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 walk with us through the woods and have an adventure or two. We promise you’ll get home. Eventually.
(11 short films•1 hr 34 mins) More details & tickets
Film still from Temporal Takedown
Invasion '53
A man-eating alien crashes a suburban cocktail party.
USA / 2025 / 10 mins
Content Warnings: flashing lights
Blossom Needs a Ride Home
After defeating a bloodthirsty maniac, Blossom needs a ride home. What a hassle.
USA / 2025 / 9 mins
Content Warnings: mutilation, gore, blood, gunshot, abduction, torture, references to cannibalism
Seance for the 'Gram
Three influencers stage a fake seance live for their followers, but the consequences are all too real.
USA / 2025 / 11 mins
Content Warnings: blood, violence, vaping, glitching, jump scares, mutilation
Tiny Bites!!!
A young child discovers herself in a world of sweets beyond her wildest imagination. But everything isn't as it seems.
USA / 2025 / 2 mins
Content Warnings: gore, violence, blood
A Perfect Match
Bridget has no luck with men, so when a friend advises her to change her strategy, and she meets Andrei — awkward, shy and strangely dressed — she decides to invite him home. When mutual awkwardness gives way to frankness, have the pair found what they have been looking for all this time?
Russian Federation / 2025 / 15 mins
In Russian with English subtitles
Content Warnings: flashing lights, blood, implied possible violence
Bathroom Spider
When a callous jerk breaks a young woman's heart, she turns to her resident bathroom spider for advice - with horrifying results.
USA / 2025 / 3 mins
Content Warnings: spider
Sketchy Characters
After unknowingly drawing a murderer, an aspiring artist becomes the only source of evidence in an ongoing case.
USA / 2025 / 10 mins
Content Warnings: blood, violence
Shadow Dancer
An underestimated tap choreographer must fight her surreal and violent hallucinations in order to keep her grip on reality before she loses the biggest opportunity of her life.
USA / 2025 / 5 mins
Content Warnings: stalking
Temporal Takedown
A woman with mysterious time freezing powers infiltrate a dirty car workshop in hopes of gaining information about a nefarious gangster. The mechanics are not compliant to her request and an epic and time-bending fight ensues.
Norway / 2025 / 8 mins
Content Warnings: violence
THE DEAD OF WINTER
After an affluent man leaves a rough sleeper to die in the cold on Christmas Eve, he's haunted by a figure that may be a vengeful spirit - or his own guilty conscience.
UK / 2025 / 12 mins
NORMA
A fantastical, dark comedy horror with romance, Norma attempts to move on from her many exes, only to discover her last boyfriend has swallowed the key to her safe. And Norma isn’t one to let her exes get away...
USA / 2025 / 9 mins
Content Warnings: decomposing corpses, gore, vomit, grave-robbing
