Our FilmQuest Sinister Six: Recommended Shorts, From Scariest to Most Laugh-Inducing, Part 1 Cinemax
FilmQuest, one of the largest and fastest-growing genre film festivals in the world, celebrating the best in science fiction, fantasy, horror and beyond, will take place October 23 – November 1 in downtown Provo, Utah. Short films are always a highlight of genre festivals, and FilmQuest curates a great selection every year. I have for you a selection of short films from this edition that I highly recommend, with a second opus here. For more information, visit https://www.filmquestfest.com/.
Grizzly Woodpecker
Cody takes his longtime crush Kylie to a corner of the Redwoods called Grizzly Peak to share his new creative outlet; flying drones. They witness a gruesome murder and become the target of a serial murdering madman who disables their car and traps them in a grisly game of survival.
Self-tape
A struggling actor who runs a makeshift self-recording studio out of his San Fernando Valley apartment becomes increasingly disillusioned as a wide range of actors come and go, and lazy contemporaries continue to get opportunities that elude him.
crowded
During a desperate search for parking in the city, Owen picks up a strange hitchhiker who offers help, but instead gives unwanted opinions and leads to more hitchhikers.
Vanity
In the near future, a young couple earns their living as influencers for a new social media platform: THE VANITY. But when THE VANITY switches to AI, the horrific visions it shows force them to decide what matters more: their online following or each other.
Attached
On her first day at the helm of a remote, isolated space station, Mickie (Geffri Maya, “All American: Homecoming”) receives mysterious transmissions and must quickly discover their meaning with the help of the captain of a passing spaceship (Ming-Na Wen, “The Mandalorian,” “Mulan”) or untold numbers of lives could be lost.
Almost ten
When an innocent-looking fish tricks a thief into thinking he’s younger than she is…
article by Joseph Perry
