5 MINUTES is an interactive zombie film and in this universe the first symptoms that someone is becoming a zombie is a loss of memory within the first five minutes of exposure. So throughout the film you are presented with relatively simple tasks to prove your memorization skills are intact.
This is one of the most heartwarming animated shorts I have seen in a while despite all of the animated corpses traipsing around. Not even the zombie apocalypse can keep a faithful dog away from his beloved master. I also loved the animation especially the scraggly lined drawings of the zombies. And Stanley is just the best cartoon doggie ever!
This short from the Bloody Cuts “Who’s There” Horror Short Film Challenge is one of the creepiest shorts i have seen in a while. It also gets more tension in it’s three minute running time than some full length movies fit into two ours. Check out the video after the cut.
THE SLEEPOVER takes us to a town where all of the tropes of the standard slasher movie are very real and known to the citizenry, the job of babysitter is not something that just any pimply faced teen can do. Oh no, my friends. To be a babysitter in this town one has to be a bad mama jamma who can go toe-to-toe with any hard to kill masked, blade wielding freak that happens to show up primed to murder anyone he meets. And woe be the young whippersnapper who doesn’t take the suggestions that the babysitter gives about making sure your room is secure.
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Waking up in a serial killer’s kill room is pretty crappy but when that serial killer happens to be a robot it gets just a bit creepier than you could possibly imagine. That is what we get in the short film ABE where a servant robot with severe emotional problems takes to murder to try and find out why no one loves him. The concept is insanely inventive and the execution is great especially the overly calm British voice of ABE that sounds like Paul Bettany or Jude Law after taking mood stabilizers.
Hollywood must think this is a pretty novel concept too since MGM has acquired the rights from creator Rob McClellan to make a feature film based on this short.
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Director Adi Shankar follows up his really cool Punisher short film with another gritty take on a Marvel Comics character. This time he focuses his lens on Eddie Brock or as he is better known, Venom.
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So imagine a world where The Punisher had the powers of Superman. If you envision the incidents of criminals dropping out of the sky to their deaths rising at an alarming rate thanks to The Punisher being able to fly then you have the gist of THE FLYING MAN, a short film about a vigilante with super-strength and flight powers preying on the criminal. element. The stuff with The Flying Man doing is thing is pretty riveting but the short film does drag a bit during the extended time that is spent with the two criminals on their way to do a job.
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This short film by Canadian filmmaker Dan Gaud is not all that special in terms of acting or storyline but it is a very well shot film that looks absolutely gorgeous. But the main selling point of this short is Max, the sarcastic and foul mouthed servant robot that does not get nearly enough screen time. Mr. Gaud would be smart to put out another short film that features the misadventures of Max the Robot.
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THE JOCKSTRAP RAIDERS is the 19 minute UCLA thesis animated film of Mark Nelson, the story – which took 5 years to complete (part time) – takes place during World War I in Leeds, England where a group of underdog misfits are excluded from the war due to various abnormalities. Threatened by the invading German Kaiser and his army, the must learn to become a team and overcome their deficiencies in order to save Britain and the world.
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This insanely charming animated short played in theaters along with the (very awesome) Wreck-It Ralph movie last year and has been nominated for a well deserved Oscar. I defy even the coldest heart to not have a goofy smile plastered on your face while watching this.
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This looks awesome…a four armed alien being (harshly) interrogated by an artificial intelligence; a a group of galactic defenders betrayed by the machines they built to aid in their mission; and lots of stuff blows up. Someone in Hollywood needs to throw a bucketload of money at this Kaleb Lechowski so he can make a full length film out of this concept. Check out the video after the jump.
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This short film comes from Luke Scott, son of director Ridley Scott, and it focuses on a lab tech (played by Giovanni Ribisi) at an industrial food corporation who seems to be doing some side genetic engineering in his off hours.
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