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What are your favorite short horror films available online?

Posted by Douglas
Tags: horror, thriller, ask.survey, films.short

Hi!

My wife and I met through our mutual love of horror films, and really love watching movies together in general-- good or bad. For the past three years we'd go to the local horror film festival around her birthday which, sadly, is not happening this year, so I thought I'd wrangle up some horror films available online for us to watch instead.

Do you have any favorites?

Here's some of mine!:

  • Transmission 1 (warning: starts loud): This was a webisode released to help promote the 2007 horror film The Signal in which a sound emitting from electronics affects how people behave.
  • Spider: A prankster doesn't know when to stop. (trigger warning & mild spoiler: some eye stuff)
  • Lights Out: Something seems off more than the lights (all of this guy's stuff is pretty decent as far as short horrors go).

I know those are higher production value than most of the stuff you'd see at a festival, so don't worry about that. We really enjoyed one last year called Finley that was just a complete delight.

9 comments

  1. [2]
    Sand
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    Theodore

    Theodore

    8 votes
    1. tomf
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      man, that's a lot of story for 99 seconds. Nice pick!

      man, that's a lot of story for 99 seconds. Nice pick!

      2 votes
  2. [2]
    imperialismus
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    Are you up for subtitles? If so, Guilt is a Faroese horror short with beautiful cinematography.

    Are you up for subtitles? If so, Guilt is a Faroese horror short with beautiful cinematography.

    4 votes
    1. Douglas
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      Always fine with subtitles. Thank you!

      Always fine with subtitles. Thank you!

      1 vote
  3. [4]
    cfabbro
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    I'm not huge into short films, so forgive me if these are not exactly what you're looking for, but Neill Blomkamp's Oats Studio has put out a few interesting horror-esque short films that you...

    I'm not huge into short films, so forgive me if these are not exactly what you're looking for, but Neill Blomkamp's Oats Studio has put out a few interesting horror-esque short films that you might enjoy. Zygote, Rakka, Firebase, God: Serengeti

    One of my favorites of which was a collaboration between Unity (the game engine company) and Oats Studio; ADAM - Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3

    And Unity themselves have also released a few similar shorts over the years with horror elements to them too: The Blacksmith, Book of the Dead, The Heretic

    And while I don't know if you would consider this a short film, the Diablo 4 cinematic trailer is absolutely amazing, IMO.

    3 votes
    1. [3]
      Douglas
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      That Oats Studio stuff has been in my backlog for ages, I really need to watch it all-- thank you!

      That Oats Studio stuff has been in my backlog for ages, I really need to watch it all-- thank you!

      1 vote
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        cfabbro
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        NP... and I thought of another one in the mean time too. I don't know if it would really be considered "horror" since it's a pretty comedic take on the subject, but even so you might still enjoy...

        NP... and I thought of another one in the mean time too. I don't know if it would really be considered "horror" since it's a pretty comedic take on the subject, but even so you might still enjoy it: One-Minute Time Machine

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        1. tomf
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          holy crap. One-Minute Time Machine is fantastic!

          holy crap. One-Minute Time Machine is fantastic!

          1 vote
  4. Duke
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    I found The Smiling Man to be reallyy scary back when I was younger. Theres another really good one called Lights Out which they adapted to a full length feature film later on

    I found The Smiling Man to be reallyy scary back when I was younger. Theres another really good one called Lights Out which they adapted to a full length feature film later on

    1 vote