Hello, everyone! Welcome back for another installment of our “Sunday Shorts” series, which is part of Daily Dead’s 2022 Indie Horror Month celebration. Last weekend, we brought you a collection of killer horror shorts (you can check out last Sunday’s selections Here), and now we’re back with four more bites of fright for you to enjoy.
Today’s “Sunday Shorts” selections include Andy Chen’s Close Your Eyes, La Oscuridad (The Darkness) by Jorge Sistos Moreno, Aaron Fradkin’s The Ballerina, and Pains from Justin Brooks. Check out all four horror short films below and be sure to head back here throughout the rest of April for all of our ongoing Indie Horror Month coverage.
Enjoy!
Close Your Eyes (Directed by Andy Chen)
Synopsis: A musician's quiet evening turns into a night of terror when he sees his roommate sleepwalking.
La Oscuridad (The Darkness) (Directed by Jorge Sistos Moreno)
Synopsis: Marina,...
Today’s “Sunday Shorts” selections include Andy Chen’s Close Your Eyes, La Oscuridad (The Darkness) by Jorge Sistos Moreno, Aaron Fradkin’s The Ballerina, and Pains from Justin Brooks. Check out all four horror short films below and be sure to head back here throughout the rest of April for all of our ongoing Indie Horror Month coverage.
Enjoy!
Close Your Eyes (Directed by Andy Chen)
Synopsis: A musician's quiet evening turns into a night of terror when he sees his roommate sleepwalking.
La Oscuridad (The Darkness) (Directed by Jorge Sistos Moreno)
Synopsis: Marina,...
- 4/10/2022
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
With Val's release to select theaters today, we have an exclusive clip from this horror comedy just for Daily Dead readers!
"Fin is a criminal on the run, wanted for the murder of his boss and the accidental shooting of an officer. He breaks into the home of a high - class escort, only to discover that you get more than you bargain for with Val, short for “Valefar” - a demon who offers to make all his problems disappear if he agrees to follow her rules. But in Val’s world there are no accidents, and as Fin meets her other “customers”, he learns that Val was expecting him all along, and it isn’t easy to escape Val’s dungeon"
Director: Aaron Fradkin Writers: Aaron Fradkin & Victoria Fratz (Electric Love) Cast: Misha Reeves (The Willows), Zachary Mooren, Erik Griffin, Sufe Bradshaw, Kyle Howard, John Kapelos Genre: Horror, Comedy...
"Fin is a criminal on the run, wanted for the murder of his boss and the accidental shooting of an officer. He breaks into the home of a high - class escort, only to discover that you get more than you bargain for with Val, short for “Valefar” - a demon who offers to make all his problems disappear if he agrees to follow her rules. But in Val’s world there are no accidents, and as Fin meets her other “customers”, he learns that Val was expecting him all along, and it isn’t easy to escape Val’s dungeon"
Director: Aaron Fradkin Writers: Aaron Fradkin & Victoria Fratz (Electric Love) Cast: Misha Reeves (The Willows), Zachary Mooren, Erik Griffin, Sufe Bradshaw, Kyle Howard, John Kapelos Genre: Horror, Comedy...
- 10/1/2021
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
"You like that, don't you? Being dangerous." Dread Presents has revealed the first official trailer for a funky horror film titled Val, from filmmaker Aaron Fradkin. Not to be confused with the excellent documentary Val about Val Kilmer, this is a feature film that dips into something else entirely. Fin is a wanted criminal for the murder of his boss. He decides to hide out with a high class escort named Val, who's really a demon. Val offers to make his problems disappear if he follows her rules. She has been expecting him all along and it won’t be easy to escape Val's dungeon. Misha Reeves stars as the titular Val, short for Valefar, joined by Zachary Mooren as Fin, with Erik Griffin, Sufe Bradshaw, Kyle Howard, and John Kapelos. This is a very kinky, wacky concept that looks simultaneous extremely cheesy and seriously terrifying. Have fun. Here's the...
- 8/31/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Jim Cummings and Pj McCabe’s ‘The Beta Test’ will open the festival.
US directors Jim Cummings and Pj McCabe’s feature The Beta Test will open the UK’s genre film festival Grimmfest which is running as a physical event in Manchester from October 7-10.
Cummings and McCabe will also star in the film about a Hollywood agent who gets sucked into a world of sexual infidelity and mysterious streams of digital data. Los Angeles based-Vanishing Angle produced the horror thriller. The feature initially premiered in the Berlin International Film Festival’s Encounters.
The festival is screening three...
US directors Jim Cummings and Pj McCabe’s feature The Beta Test will open the UK’s genre film festival Grimmfest which is running as a physical event in Manchester from October 7-10.
Cummings and McCabe will also star in the film about a Hollywood agent who gets sucked into a world of sexual infidelity and mysterious streams of digital data. Los Angeles based-Vanishing Angle produced the horror thriller. The feature initially premiered in the Berlin International Film Festival’s Encounters.
The festival is screening three...
- 8/9/2021
- by Melissa Kasule
- ScreenDaily
US release via Dread label set for October.
Epic Pictures has acquired worldwide rights to the completed horror-comedy Val starring John Kapelos and will launch sales at the virtual Cannes market later this month.
Aaron Fradkin directed from a screenplay he co-wrote with Victoria Fratz, with whom he collaborated on dating comedy Electric Love.
Val centres on a criminal on the run who unwittingly enters the lair of a demon posing as a high-class escort who it turns out has been expecting him.
Besides Kapelos, whose credits include The Shape Of Water, the cast includes Kyle Howard, Sufe Bradshaw, Erik Griffin,...
Epic Pictures has acquired worldwide rights to the completed horror-comedy Val starring John Kapelos and will launch sales at the virtual Cannes market later this month.
Aaron Fradkin directed from a screenplay he co-wrote with Victoria Fratz, with whom he collaborated on dating comedy Electric Love.
Val centres on a criminal on the run who unwittingly enters the lair of a demon posing as a high-class escort who it turns out has been expecting him.
Besides Kapelos, whose credits include The Shape Of Water, the cast includes Kyle Howard, Sufe Bradshaw, Erik Griffin,...
- 6/9/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
The rapid-fire, punny comedy of Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker fueled classic films like The Naked Gun and Airplane!. As it turns out, the Zaz formula works well on the web, too. Creator Aaron Fradkin is the man behind Burt Paxton, a web series with many stylistic similarities to the misadventures of Lt. Frank Drebin.
As in the films from which it draws inspiration, Burt Paxton is characterized by a mile-a-minute pace that rarely goes more than a few seconds without a fresh gag. A lot of these jokes, whether they are outrageous sight gags or groan-inducing puns, hit their marks, and the ones that don't never linger for too long.
Each five-ish minute episode also features a complete plot, in which Paxton (played by Burt Grinstead) attempts to solve a new mystery. These storylines never get too deep, but they match the comedy style by featuring a few absurd twists along the way.
As in the films from which it draws inspiration, Burt Paxton is characterized by a mile-a-minute pace that rarely goes more than a few seconds without a fresh gag. A lot of these jokes, whether they are outrageous sight gags or groan-inducing puns, hit their marks, and the ones that don't never linger for too long.
Each five-ish minute episode also features a complete plot, in which Paxton (played by Burt Grinstead) attempts to solve a new mystery. These storylines never get too deep, but they match the comedy style by featuring a few absurd twists along the way.
- 1/2/2015
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
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