MONSTER CABARET
31.10., 2.11., 3.11, and 4.11. 2015
Heart wrenching screams, dripping blood and undiluted fear. You will get all of that. Because what kind of Halloween would it be without Monster cabaret, brought to you by iShorts? We´ve got another selection of the best horror short films.
Girl #9 (UK)
Directors: Gary Roberts, Nick Scott | Producer: Harriet Macdonald |
Star: Holly Easterbrooke, Eme Essien, Matthew Fraser-Holland |
Year: 2014 | Length: 8 min | Live Action |
A stark, minimal story set in the one roomed apartment of a student tenant. To supplement her income she has a less than respectable job in the online sex industry. When her elusive landlord fails to fix the lighting or her internet connection, her frustration turns to fear, highlighting that nothing is private in our digitally connected world…with dark consequences.
Metachaos (Italy)
Director: Alessandro Bavari |
Year: 2010 | Length: 8 min | Audio-Visual Project |
Metachaos, from Greek Meta (beyond) and Chaos (the abyss where the eternally-formless state of the universe hides), indicates a primordial shape of ameba, which lacks in precise morphology, and it is characterized by mutation and mitosis.
Luna (USA)
Director: Antonio Perez | Producers: Eliz Eskeranli, Adrian Orozco, Antonio Perez |
Star: John Freeman, Daniela Leon, Arlene Santana |
Year: 2013 | Length: 12 min | Live Action |
A young girl witnesses the murder of her family by a mysterious killer. Now she must try to survive before the killer finds her.
Millhaven (Poland)
Director: Bartek Kulas |
Star: Katarzyna Groniec |
Year: 2010 | Length: 7 min | Animation |
Fifteen-year-old Loretta knows we all have to die. Will she be able to do a "dance" of life? The untold story of the narrator in Nick Cave's dark ballad, boldly performed by Katarzyna Groniec.
M Is for Malnutrition (SK)
Director: Peter Czikrai | Producer: Peter Czikrai |
Star: Judit Bárdos, Michal Kubovcík, Gabriela Marcinková |
Year: 2013 | Length: 3 min | Live Action |
In the world full of undead, last people are fighting to survive. Struggling for food, is struggling for life.
Game (Canada)
Director: Josh MacDonald | Producer: Angus Swantee |
Star: Pasha Ebrahimi, Glen Matthews, Michael McPhee |
Year: 2013 | Length: 8 min | Live Action |
GAME is an eight-minute horror entertainment from Nova Scotia, Canada. A terrified woman flees through the woods, trying to evade three monstrous pursuers... but maybe the game is about to change. Inspired by 1950s EC Comics and 1970s Canadian Hinterland public service announcements.
The Root of the Problem (USA)
Director: Ryan Spindell | Producers: Nathan Levine-Heaney, Ryan Spindell |
Star: Alison Gallaher, Brea Grant, Ptolemy Slocum |
Year: 2012 | Length: 14 min | Live Action |
Set in the candy-colored world of 1950s suburbia, a reluctant young housewife suspects that the friendly neighborhood dentist is hiding a horrible secret, but is it just the anesthesia at work or is there something more sinister hiding below the surface? Open up and say AHHHHHHHH!
Service (USA)
Director: Jerry Pyle | Producer: Tim Hyten |
Star: James Babson, Rylie Martinez, Denna Thomsen |
Year: 2014 | Length: 8 min | Live Action |
Lucy and her daughter get trapped in a closet by a home invader in a house she was hired to clean.
The Brain Hack (UK)
Director: Joseph White | Producer: Charlotte Walls |
Star: Edward Franklin, Alexander Owen |
Year: 2015 | Length: 20 min | Live Action |
A metaphysical thriller for the digital generation.
GIRL THAT DIDN'T CRY (CZ)
Director: Pavel Soukup | Producer: Cinemaspot |
Star: Sofie Řehořová, Kryštof Mende, Zuzana Stavná, Michal Dlouhý |
Year: 2014 | Length: 5 min | Live Action |
Shooting with children is a horror.
Woods (CZ) at Bio Oko only
Director: Sean van Leijenhorst | Producer: Lucía Giménez Viloria |
Star: Ted Otis, David Clark, Eva Larvoire |
Year: 2015 | Length: 29 min | Live Action |
A struggling writer believes a secret from his past has come back to haunt him. Paranoia and guilt take over as he must try to figure out who or what has been plaguing him with increasingly violent attacks before it is too late.
Total length of the screening 93 min. In original language with Czech and English subtitles.