{"id":22680,"date":"2016-10-10T10:03:04","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T14:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=22680"},"modified":"2016-10-10T02:08:10","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T06:08:10","slug":"supernatural-horrors-shorts-block-part-1-horrible-imaginings-film-festival-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/10\/supernatural-horrors-shorts-block-part-1-horrible-imaginings-film-festival-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Supernatural Horrors Shorts Block Part 1 [Horrible Imaginings Film Festival 2016]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"supernatural-horrors-shorts-block-part-1-slit\"<\/a>Mona (Kosovo) (2016)<\/strong>
\nThis interpretive dance short by Lorena Sopi is a beautiful haunting piece about a dance reflecting on life and the accident that changed it.\u00a0 This short has fantastic, dreamy lighting and makes good use of Christmas lights and snow fall.\u00a0 The acting is soft and appropriate while the dancing is fascinating to watch.<\/p>\n

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Summoned (USA) (2016)
\n<\/strong>In writer\/director Victoria Angell\u2019s short; an abused teenager summons an evil supernatural entity to help her stop it.\u00a0 Once in her world, the entity goes rogue and much beyond what the teen had intended for it.\u00a0 The film deals, in its short time, with themes of abuse, revenge, and regret.\u00a0 The acting is good by lead Casey Beattie and the music by Adam Fulton is decent.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the evil being\u2019s voice is not effective or scary, thus taking some of the film\u2019s effectiveness away.\u00a0 Still, the film has a nicely creepy atmosphere and has a few nasty surprises in store that make it worth a watch or two.<\/p>\n

Witchboard (USA) (2015)<\/strong>
\nIn this short film by Isaac Rodriguez, the leads use a witchboard to dire consequences.\u00a0 The acting here works with music that goes with the action on screen well but is however a bit generic which is unfortunate as great music could have added even more atmosphere and creepiness to a film that is already dealing with these quite well.\u00a0 The film is still an effective piece of short creepy cinema and a strong reminder to be careful what you wish for.<\/p>\n

The Birthday (USA) (2015)
\n<\/strong>Berkeley, 1974, a young couple go to the woods for a bit of romance and to take photos.\u00a0 When the man takes drugs and subsequently hallucinates, things take a turn for the weird for his pregnant wife and him.\u00a0 Writer Ian Hock and director Brenna Malloy create a nicely mid-1970s short with characters, costumes, settings, and story that are all right at home in the 70s.\u00a0 Their homage to the decade and its films does not stop there as the exposure, lighting, and faux damage to the film all hark back to the era and its cinematographic offerings.\u00a0 The acting from both leads is good and the masked people are appropriately creepy.\u00a0 The cinematography by Nick Ramsey and the music add the right amount of 70s horror goodness to connect with the decade without turning the film into a pastiche or bad homage.<\/p>\n

Japanese Legends: Slit (Japan) (2016)
\n<\/strong>The first in a series by writer\/director Pablo Absento, Slit is set in current day Japan and follows a Japanese Legend played by Absento herself.\u00a0 She crafts an interesting story and take on a classic.\u00a0 Viewers do nto need to have a great knowledge of the legend, however this short is enjoyable for both fans and non-fans of classic Japanese horror tales.\u00a0 Absento\u2019s writing, directing, and acting as the lead work quite well here and makes the viewer want to see more.\u00a0 The film takes its time to develop before giving its payoff and looks beautiful while doing so with well thought out shots and great locations.\u00a0 The theme song by Eric Elick is atmospheric and fitting for this developing series.\u00a0 Slit is a great start to the Japanese Legends series.<\/p>\n

Insomnolence (Australia) (2015)<\/strong>
\nA grieving man has been having difficulty sleeping since his wife passed away.\u00a0 As his sleep deprived state aggravates, her hair starts haunting him, showing up in all kinds of places.\u00a0 This mixes with the odd dreams he gets when he does sleep to slowly chip away at his sanity.\u00a0 This short written and directed by Kiefer Findlow is a very slow burn that takes the time to build its lead and his grief before turning up the creep factor.\u00a0 This lead is interpreted by Christopher Whelan who gives him layers of grief, sadness, depression, and exhaustion.\u00a0 Through him, his character feels and makes the viewer feel with and for him.\u00a0 The effects by Ali Knapton are minimal, but definitely work in this more psychological than straight up horror short.\u00a0 The cinematography by Roderick Findlow along with the art direction by Joanna House gives the film a very specific and darkly soft look which adds to the feeling of loss that emanates from the lead.\u00a0 Insomnolence is a short that feels somber and heavy, an appropriate film about loss and ghosts of the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mona (Kosovo) (2016) This interpretive dance short by Lorena Sopi is a beautiful haunting piece about a dance reflecting on life and the accident that changed it.\u00a0 This short has fantastic, dreamy lighting and makes good use of Christmas lights and snow fall.\u00a0 The acting is soft and appropriate while the dancing is fascinating to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1284,7,12],"tags":[64,367,477,501,938,1008,1087],"class_list":["post-22680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-festivalsevents","category-halloween-horror-month","category-movie-reviews","tag-adaptation","tag-foreign","tag-horror","tag-indie-film","tag-short-film","tag-supernatural","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22682,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22680\/revisions\/22682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}