A small-town public defender finds herself faces with something taking over the population around her.
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A Few Short Films from Nightmares Fest 2024 [Nightmares Fest 2024] [Halloween Horror Month]
As usual, Nightmares Fest brought it with one of the best short films (and features) selection. The films played this year were excellent overall, so let’s take a look at a few of the shorts present, in no particular order:
Animale (2024) [Brooklyn Horror Film Festival 2024] [Halloween Horror Month]
A woman training hard to enter a bullfighting competition soon finds herself in a situation where the men around here are dying one by one.
A Mother’s Embrace (2024) [Beyond Fest 2024] [Halloween Horror Month]
A woman working with the local firefighters’ rescue team who is called to a retirement home due to the building being unstable and needing to be evacuated finds that the task will be much more complex than expected and that perhaps the evacuation is not why they were called there.
Sayara (2024) [Brooklyn Horror Film Festival 2024] [Halloween Horror Month]
Following her sister’s murder by affluent young men, Sayara decides to resolve the issue herself using the skills her father thought her.
Zero (2024) [Beyond Fest 2024]
An American man wakes up in Dakar with a bomb strapped to his chest. Soon, a mysterious voice on the phone is giving him orders. As he goes through what is demanded of him, he meets a second American man in the same predicament.
Shadowland (2024) [Beyond Fest 2024]
This review must be started by a warning, this film is about Richard Stanley and his abuses (some proven in court, some pending). We do not normally review films by or about known abusers, but this is how to get an exception.
The documentary here was supposed to be about the peace and magic of a special village in the French Pyrenees and it soon becomes about Richard Stanley’s involvement in this community and then his abuses. This is not a film just about Stanley, but his involvement led to it being in large part about him and his downfall.