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Short Films
ABSOLUTION (2001) - 23-minute short directed by Daniel Bronzite. “Psychiatrist delves into the troubled mind of her patient but finds her unconventional suggestive therapy has horrific consequences” – Internet Movie Database.
ADMISSION (2006) - a finalist in the 'best film' section of the '2 Days Later' short horror movie contest staged annually in Kent. Directed by Nicholas Silk.
THE ALIEN (1990) - amateur short by Darryl Sloan and Phil Topping. Unseen alien (represented by subjective camera and red filter) attacks young man outside his home, disappears into drain at end.
ALL OF THE DEAD
(2000) - the first of the Lego stop-motion shorts directed by Tony Mines
and Tim Drage (later responsible for MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL IN LEGO);
"horrificaly violent non-specific spoof of independent horror films from the
twenties to the eighties" -
ALL YOU NEED IS BLOOD (1976) - documentary on the making of Norman J.Warren's
SATAN'S SLAVE.
ANGRY KID (2000) - short animated film directed by Darren Walsh for Aardman. While watching a horror movie on t.v., a youngster being pestered by an older brother becomes sufficiently enraged to turn into a green vomit-spewing, head-rotating imitation of 'Regan' from THE EXORCIST. One of a series of 'Angry Kid' shorts.
THE ANTIQUE (2003) - 20-minute supernatural short directed by Ian Vernon, shot in Manchester and California. Dead priest bequeaths an item to someone on the other side of the Atlantic; they become possessed.
ASCENSION
(2002) - directed by Seymour Lavine, screened at the Festival Of Fantastic
Films 2002. “Detective is on the hunt for an unknown assailant, who is on a
nocturnal killing spree. When she finally encounters the creature...she realises
that it too is part of the city” – Festival Of Fantastic Films brochure. 4 minutes.
ASYLUM
(1997)
- 7-minute horror short from Cat N Cage Pictures, makers of the feature-length
DIAGNOSIS.
ASYLUM (2006) - directed by Ben Slythe. Entrant in the annual Kent-based short horror film contest '2 Days Later'.
ASYLUM (2006) - directed by Leo Cookman. Entrant in the annual Kent-based short horror film contest '2 Days Later'.
ATTACK OF THE
GIANT KILLER ROBOT! (2005) - Titular robot on rampage, controlled by mad
scientist. King Kong; severed head; crawling hand. Animated/rotoscoped short
directed by James Allchurch.
ATTENTION CINEMAGOERS! (1993) - directed by David Greenall, later compiler
of 'The Sleaze Files' in horror fanzine 'Monstroid'. Manages to pack in homages
to ZOMBIE FLESH EATERS, THE THRILL KILLERS, and THE TINGLER in the space of
just one minute as we view a blank screen while a movie projectionist (Dave
Gold) warns of an escaped psychopath...
AUTOMATON (2005) - 'The Picture Press Presents' a short directed by William Sinclair, screened at London Frightfest in August 2005.
AVENGING ANGEL (2001) - a tale of revenge from beyond the grave.
AXE KILLER 1 (198?) - early video short directed by Alex Chandon (BAD KARMA/CRADLE OF FEAR). Ref: 'The Dark Side' (October 1991). Followed by two sequels. "They were very basic - I don't think I need to explain the plots..." - Alex Chandon.
AXE KILLER 2 (198?) - see above
AXE KILLER 3 (198?) - see above
BABY DOLL (2000)
- directed by Christopher Finn. Would-be mother buys a doll, with which
to tease her reluctant husband, but disturbingly begins to think of the toy
as her real offspring. Shot-on-video short with a neat, E.C. Comics-style twist
ending.
BAD KARMA (1991)
- directed by Alex Chandon. Award-winning shot-on-video gore fest as alien disciples
of the god Kalima invade an S&M brothel in the London suburbs, masquerading
as Hare Krishnas!
BALLOON
(1991) - animation directed by
Ken Lidster. Shadow-figure attempts to give himself substance by swallowing
balloons, menaces an innocent young girl in his lair, but is eventually destroyed.
BAPHOMET (2004)
- devil-worshipping features in this horror short shot on Digi8, directed by
Alan Morris. Entry in the second '2 Days Later' short horror film competition
staged in Margate, Kent.
THE BASILISK (1914) - evil mesmerist almost drives woman to murder her
fiancé.
BAVUNEVERA (1999) -
cursed, evil book is unearthed following an earthquake. One of several short
projects by a group of teenage amateur filmmakers working under the banner ‘Bumstead
Productions’. “Think Jumanji meets the Evil Dead meets Mission Impossible meets
Gremlins and you'll begin to see what kind of film this is...”
BELLA (2004)
- Welsh horror short directed by Sally Pearce. Young nurse is affected by a
frail but sinister old woman in an NHS ward.
THE BELLS (1914) - murderer Mathias (H.B.Irving) is haunted by a vision
of his victim. Silent British version of this frequently filmed tale.
THE BESPOKE OVERCOAT (1956) - directed by Jack Clayton. Jewish clerk
who has died from the cold returns as a ghost to claim the garment he was denied
in life. With Alfie Bass, David Kossoff.
BIRDS OF PREY (1997) - directed by Tim Conrad. Old man who keeps a golden
eagle as a pet is plagued by unruly local kids; after a break-in, the valuable
bird is stolen - so he plans an unusual replacement. 'Tales Of The Unexpected'-like
drama with twist ending.
BITE NIGHT (2005) - directed by Jeremy Borel. An entrant in the horror filmmaking contest '2 Days Later', staged annually in Margate.
BITENIGHT 2: THE
BINGE OF THE DEAD (2006) - directed by Jeremy Borel. Entrant in the annual
Kent-based short horror film contest '2 Days Later'.
BLACK ANGEL (1980) - directed by Roger Christian. Knight saved from drowning
by a maiden's magic powers next confronts the phantom Black Angel in combat.
U-certificate fantasy which borrows the plot of Ambrose Bierce's 'An Occurrence
At Owl Creek Bridge'.
THE BLACK CAT (1994) - directed by Rob Green. Faithful adaptation of
the Poe story.
BLACK
MAGIC
(196?) - directed by a pre-fame,
teenage Michael Armstrong. Boy gains power to bring inanimate objects to life
by touch, but finds that he kills living things using the same method.
BLACK
XXX-MAS (2000) - Belgian/U.K. short directed by Pieter van Hees. Screened
at the Fant-asia festival in Canada, July 2000. “An updated techno gore version
of Little Red Riding Hood” (‘Gorezone’ website) featuring a black Father Christmas,
a cannibal cop, an exploding head, much bloody violence.
THE BLACKHEATH (2004) - directed by William Hodgson and Victoria Shackley. Entry in the second '2 Days Later' short horror film competition, staged in Margate, Kent.
THE BLAXORCIST (1990) - amateur horror short, an early work from Andrew Harrison and Darryl Sloan (later the makers of ZOMBIE GENOCIDE).
BLOOD
INHERITANCE (1993)
- 30-minute vampire short made by members of the Dracula Society, shot at
a country house in Norfolk. A Nocturnal Films production.
BLOOD LUST (1980) - directed by Russell Gay. Hardcore movie featuring vampirism, filmed for Harrison Marks and presumably intended for distribution on 8mm to his 'specialist' clientele!
BLOODLINE (2004)
- 20-minute 'zombies in the woods' short directed by Daniel Austin. Screened
at the 'Fantastic Films Weekend' in Bradford, May 2005.
THE BLOODY CHAMBER (1982) - Terence Stamp as a Bluebeard-like wife-killer
in this version of an Angela Carter story. Released theatrically as support
film to 48 HRS.
THE BOOTH (2006)
- U.K. entry in the 'Film Club' website's 'World Short Horror Film Challenge'
competition, with entrants invited to make a new horror short within 13 days.
BOTHERED BY A BEARD
(1945) - With
Tod Slaughter reprising his famous role as Sweeney Todd. Directed by E.V.H.
Emmett, later the narrator of CARRY ON CLEO! "Quasi-documentary on the
history of shaving...featuring Slaughter in a brief vignette" - 'The Missing
Link' website.
BOUND (2006) - U.K. entry in the 'Film Club' website's 'World Short Horror Film Challenge' competition, with entrants invited to make a new horror short within 13 days.
BRAIN DEATH (199?) - 20-minute zombie short made by Neil Marshall, future director of DOG SOLDIERS and THE DESCENT, during his days as a film student in Newcastle.
BURRIED IN THE WOODS (2006) - U.K. entry in the 'Film Club' website's 'World Short Horror Film Challenge' competition, with entrants invited to make a new horror short within 13 days.
CAGE (2005) - 9-minute horror short directed by Nick Karner. Woman hears noises from inside a garage, discovers a psychotic girl trapped inside a small cage…
THE
CALLING (2003)
- two-minute “trailer for a proposed sci-fi/horror thriller”, directed
by Mark Jackson and screened at London’s Curzon Cinema, March 2003. “Mobile
phone mind control”.
CARMILLA (2003)
- vampire film made in Sussex and London, directed by Paul Wiffen and starring
Magda Rodriguez. See http://www.magdarodriguez.info/ . Unclear whether this
is a short (likely) or feature length.
CARUNCULA (1990) - directed by Mariano Baino. PVC-clad psycho pursues
innocent-looking girl through a cinema, but she turns the tables when she lures
him home...
THE CASK OF
AMONTILLADO (1999) - A Pirate Films production, short based on the Poe
story.
CASTLE OF DRACULA (1968) - home-made short by the enthusiasts of the Delta Film Group, some of whom now organise Manchester's annual 'Festival Of Fantastic Films'.
CASTLE OF TERRORS (1964) - more from Delta Film Group; wacky, almost Dick Lester-like horror comedy.
THE CAT WITH HANDS (2001) - cat lives in well, emerging to steal body parts bit-by-bit from victims in order to eventually become human. Superb dark fantasy short directed by Robert Morgan.
CATHARSIS
(2003)
- directed by Owen Tooth. Excellent, very original 5-minute short in
which camera glides through a gloomy landscape in a single continuous shot,
while an ethereal voice whispers a despair-filled poem about death and loss.
CHAINSAW SCUMFUCK (1988) - alien psycho kills 2 'Sunday Sport' readers! Early short by Alex Chandon, who re-used some of the ideas in his breakthrough movie BAD KARMA.
CHARLES MOON AND
THE EPPING FOREST YETI (200?) - "join paranormal investigator Charles Moon
as he hunts the elusive and dangerous Yeti of Epping forest". More hi-jinks
from the folk at Blunt Productions.
A CHILD'S VOICE (1978) - directed by Kieran Hickey. T.P.McKenna in chilling
Irish ghost tale, narrated by Valentine Dyall.
CHUCKY AND TIFFANY DO LONDON: INTERNATIONAL MURDER AND MAYHEM (1999) - shot-on-video short included as an additional extra on the DVD release of U.S. movie BRIDE OF CHUCKY. Investigative journalist follows a trail of murders perpetrated by the killer dolls from the CHILD’S PLAY movies, is himself attacked by Chucky and Tiffany at end.
THE
CICERONES (2002)
- t.v.’s ‘The League Of Gentlemen’ adapt Robert Aickman’s ghost story
for this ten-minute short directed by the team’s Jeremy Dyson.
CLOSE TO PHOBIA
(2006) - U.K. entry in the 'Film Club' website's 'World Short Horror Film Challenge'
competition, with entrants invited to make a new horror short within 13 days.
CLUB DEATH (1995) - directed by Jake West. Soul-selling by instalments
in this afterlife horror fantasy from the director of RAZOR BLADE SMILE.
COCONUT (2005) - directed by Mehul Desai, Vitarog Rathod, Narinder Jagoer and Steve Nijjar. Man finds a coconut in a park, attempts to break it open, but is instead sucked inside it before it rolls on in search of other victims.
THE COLLECTOR (2006)
- animated short directed by Steve Simmons; a finalist at the 'Cut!' short horror
film competition staged as part of the 2006 London FrightFest.
COME TO VIDDY (1997) - promotional video for the Aphex Twin's 'Come To
Daddy' single, directed by Chris Cunningham. Made commercially available on
videotape in 1998. An elderly woman is terrorised by a creepy brood of children,
all of whom have the face of Richard 'Aphex' James...
CONCEPTUAL (2004)
- woman gazes at gallery photos of a hanging woman; noose descends from
above, looping around her neck and leading to an unexpected and very disturbing
conclusion. Excellent 5-minute short directed by Owen Tooth.
COSMIC BRAINSUCKERS (1999) - showreel screened at the Festival Of Fantastic
Films, Manchester 1999; director Grant Littlechild plans a feature movie of
this sf/alien invasion spoof, but for the time being has completed this brief
teaser featuring cameo appearances from John Landis, Sir Norman Wisdom, Patrick
Moore, Ray Harryhausen and Warren Mitchell (as his 'Alf Garnett' character!)
THE COTTAGE (1982) - directed by Mark Chapman. U.K. horror short released
to cinemas as the supporting film for POLTERGEIST.
THE CREATURE (1957) - early amateur effort from Manchester's Delta Film
Group.
CREEPY
CRAWLY (1998) - ten-minute b&w vampire short which had several screenings
at cinema clubs etc. Directed by
John Carr.
CROP (2006)
- a finalist in the 'best film' section of the '2 Days Later' short horror movie
contest staged annually in Kent. Directed by Jerome & Isobel Dutton.
CROSSROADS (1955) - directed by John Fitchen. Christopher Lee and Ferdy
Mayne star in tale of dead man who returns to avenge his murder.
CRY
(2002) - experimental short which is intended to depict the final
ten minutes of a horror movie, featuring classic genre images (including the
discovery of pictures behind a wall a la Dario Argento’s DEEP RED). Directed
by Steven Sheil.
A CRY IN THE NIGHT (1915) - directed by Ernest G.Batley. Early silent two-reeler featuring mad scientist and his creation, a murderous winged gorilla.
CRY WOLF (1980) - directed by Leszek Burzynski. Comic werewolf spoof with Paul Maxwell and Rosalind Ayres. Played the cinema circuit as support to AIRPLANE!
CRY WOLF (2004)
- group of teenagers go on a camping trip that becomes a werewolf hunt.
10-minute short by a buch of teenage Scottish filmmakers, winner of ‘best short’
at the 2004 First Light film awards.
CURSED
WOODS
(1983) - the first of Brian Davies’
(Videas Films) productions, an 18-minute short. “A group of camping enthusiasts
stumble upon a murder and become targets in the killer’s attempts to hide his
crime” - www.videasfilms.com
CUT THROAT ALLY
(2006) - U.K. entry in the 'Film Club' website's 'World Short Horror Film Challenge'
competition, with entrants invited to make a new horror short within 13 days.
DAFFODIL (2005) - short
by Hull filmmaker Jonathan Wright, entered in Margate's annual '2 Days Later'
horror filmmaking contest where it won 'Best Screenplay'.
DAMAGED (2006) - U.K.
entry in the 'Film Club' website's 'World Short Horror Film Challenge' competition,
with entrants invited to make a new horror short within 13 days.
THE
DARK (2000)
- 7-minute animated film directed by Gareth Love, featuring an old bogeyman,
a squeamish vampire, a tooth fairy and a redundant ghost.
DARK STATIC (2006) - U.K. entry in the 'Film Club' website's 'World Short Horror Film Challenge' competition, with entrants invited to make a new horror short within 13 days.
DARK WATER
(1980) - directed by Andrew Bogle. Maniac terrorises a girl in a deserted swimming
baths.
THE
DARKEST BREED (1998) -
independent 22-minute horror short from Cat N Cage Pictures, with involvement
from the notorious Ken Russell.
DAWN (1990)
- amateur zombie short listed by Kevin Lyons at his 'Encyclopedia Of Fantastic
Films And Television' website. Details given appear identical to the 2003 short
DAY OUT OF THE DEAD, however, with the same directors named. Is this a much
earlier version of the same story, or a mistake on Kevin's part?
DAY OUT OF THE
DEAD (2003)
- “to make a change from decomposing in their coffins and munching living
brains, a bunch of zombies decide to go on a day out”. Web short from www.subcentral.co.uk
, directed by Anthony Carpendale and Beki Laws.
DEAD (1996) - Thirsk-based director Paul Shrimpton specialises in horror shorts available via mail order video; this appears as one of several on his 1996 tape entitled 'Church Bells And Chainsaws'.
DEAD AT DAWN (2005) - short directed by Jorg Muschner. "Who's got ur number? What happens when a homicidal texter taps into the fears of a group of nightclub workers?". West Midlands-made short, screened at Birmingham Arts Fest, September 2005.
DEAD AWAKE (2004) - “have you ever wondered about the Victorians’ fear of being buried alive, and the scientific origins of such a fear? This short film drama documents the rare medical condition Narcolepsy Cataplexy, in which the victim appears to be clinically dead, but is actually aurally fully aware of what goes on around them. The protagonist, Jade, must will herself out of her deep coma and make contact with the outside world before it’s too late”. Short, screened in Plymouth, May 2004. (Ref: Artshole.co.uk/M.J. Simpson).
DEAD
IN THE WEST (2005?) - 13-minute short directed by Deborah Beach. Ref: Paul
Higson: "shot on 35mm... a western with zombies"...
DEAD LONDON (1996)
- Horror short starring Ewen Bremner and Dexter Fletcher. Directed by Thomas
Q.Napper. Ref: Internet Movie Database.
DEAD TIME (199?) - "horror zombie film short" - ref: interview with Darren Ward at 'sexgoremutants' website.
DEAD
WOOD (2002)
- 2-minute short directed by David Bryant, Sebastian Smith and Richard
Styles, screened at the 2002 Festival Of Fantastic Films. “An idyllic summer’s
day in a secluded woodland clearing soon turns to terror for an unsuspecting
young couple”
THE DEMON FILES (2005)
- directed by Tunbridge Wells-based Joe Lloyd, an entrant in 2005's '2 Days
Later' horror filmmaking competition in Margate.
THE DEMON MASK
(200?) One of five 'Jim And Heinz' shorts from www.bluntproductions.com . Heinz
orders a mask from the horror film 'Demonhunter' via the internet; Jim tries
it on and "all hell breaks loose".
DEMONIAC (2004) - directed by Stefan Archetti, screened at the Portobello Film Festival. Actor moves into an apartment block where sinister goings-on are afoot; meanwhile, a satanic cult leader and baby-killer (Dave Courtney) has escaped from prison. How are these events connected?…
DESSERTS (1998)
- 3-minute short which launched Channel 4's 'Film Four' digital channel. Ewan
McGregor eats an apparently discarded cream cake, only to discover it is being
used as bait and he is on the end of the hook...
THE DEVIL'S BARGAIN (1908) - directed by A.E.Coleby. Artist sells his
soul, in exchange for riches.
THE DEVIL'S BONDMAN (1915) - former convict sells his soul to the Devil
in order to gain wealth, later murders his own mistress.
THE DEVIL'S CHASE
(200?) - available as an extra on the Blunt Productions DVD 'Mick Roads:
Ilford Cab Driver'. Described as "a spooky Hammer-like film loosely based on
THE DEVIL RIDES OUT. Very loosely"
THE DEVIL'S FOOT (1921) - directed by Maurice Elvey. One of the silent
'Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes' series, featuring the great detective investigating
the mystery of 'The Cornish Horror'.
DINNERTIME (2005) - a prize-winner in the 'popular vote' category at Margate's 2005 '2 Days Later' competition for short horror films. Directed by Kieron Stone.
DIPTERA ANDROMEDI
(2006) - directed by Philip Mearns. Entrant in the annual Kent-based short horror
film contest '2 Days Later'.
DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES? (1982) - one of the Stanley Long/Michael Armstrong
collaborations which ended up as part of the SCREAMTIME anthology; two robbers
attempt to burgle a pair of old ladies who believe in gnomes and elves, and
get more than they bargained for...
THE DOLL'S REVENGE (1907) - directed by Lewin Fitzhamon. Boy breaks his sister's favourite doll, which repairs itself before tearing the lad to pieces...and eating him! Silent short.
DOLLY MIXTURE (1973) - incredibly obscure short porn/horror/comedy item directed by Harrison Marks. Frankenstein-like mad scientist brings his female creation to life; she then has sex with a young insurance clerk who just happens to be passing. Ref: Gavin Whitaker.
DON'T GO HOME WITH STRANGERS (2006) - U.K. entry in the 'Film Club' website's 'World Short Horror Film Challenge' competition, with entrants invited to make a new horror short within 13 days.
DON'T LOOK IN THE ATTIC (2005) - 30-minute short from Northern Ireland's Midnight Pictures, directed by Andrew Harrison, screened at the Festival of Fantastic Films 2005. Based on Ray Bradbury's short story 'Trapdoor'.
DOODLED (2005) - 5-minute short directed by Sam Rogers, apparently made for just £38! Young woman whiles away the hours at her boring job by doodling; draws a spider on her pad, but when she looks back the image has disappeared. Before long, news reports announce a strange spidery creature terrorising the city...
DOPPELGANGER (1997) - 5-minute stop-motion animation, screened in U.K. cinemas as an advertisement for Reebok sporting footwear. Mad scientist creates an evil clone of Manchester United’s Ryan Giggs, using DNA from a saliva sample.
DOUG (2004)
- produced and directed by Joseph St. Clair-Ford. Entry in the second '2 Days
Later' short horror film contest, staged in Margate, Kent.
DR.JEKYLL AND MR.HYDE (1913) - produced by the Kineto-Kinemacolour company,
this version of the Stevenson story, made to cash in on the hit King Baggot
version from the States, may have been the first horror film to be released
in colour (barring previously hand-tinted shorts).
DR.TRIMBALL'S VERDICT (1913) - a Hepworth silent; doctor murders a rival, later purchases a skeleton for medical use which turns out to be that of his victim, whose spirit then materialises on the bones...
DRAGGED (2006) - directed by Richard Cairns. Entrant in the annual Kent-based short horror film contest '2 Days Later'.
DREAM A40 (1965) - homosexual couple speeding on the A40 are pulled up by a motorcycle cop...and fantasize that he takes them to an oppressive, remote fortress "where nooses hang from the ceilings and the rooms are filled with nervous waiting men", with the younger of the pair revealed hanged at the end. "Crowds of zombie extras, a sub-Kafka regime of bureaucrats" - Monthly Film Bulletin (August 1971). Directed by Lloyd Reckord.
DREAMHOUSE (1980) - Veronica Doran (a regular in t.v.'s 'Coronation Street' at the time) appears in this gory tale of murder and premonition. Supported THE EVIL DEAD on its U.K. release in 1983 - later turned up as one of the episodes of SCREAMTIME.
DRILLBIT (1992) - directed by Alex Chandon. The BAD KARMA team return with a futuristic tale of wonder sex drugs with nasty side effects, zombies, ultra-violent goons, and a horror anti-hero for a new millennium.
D.T.s OR THE EFFECT OF DRINK (1905) - drunkard sees grotesque creatures and imagines his bed turns into a monster, all in a cautionary 4 minutes.
THE DUALITY OF MAN (1910) - early version of the Jekyll and Hyde story.
THE DUMB WAITER (1979) - woman terrorised by a psycho in her kitchen.
EDDIE’S STICKY END (2003)
- comedy short - is there a werewolf on the loose in London’s Muswell Hill?
Why is lard disappearing from Eddie Smallcock’s fridge? And who is the madman
disguised as a Dalek? Directed by Martin Gooch.
ENCORE (2006) - directed by Gillian Davies. Entrant in the annual Kent-based short horror film contest '2 Days Later'.
END IN TEARS (2006) - "horror of the haunting kind from up-and-coming Brand, a real jump out of your seat ghost story". Effective horror short screened at the 'Bang! Mayhem' short film showcase in Nottingham.
END OF THE LINE (2006) - U.K. entry in the 'Film Club' website's 'World Short Horror Film Challenge' competition, with entrants invited to make a new horror short within 13 days.
THE END OF THE WORLD (2006) - U.K. entry in the 'Film Club' website's 'World Short Horror Film Challenge' competition, with entrants invited to make a new horror short within 13 days.
ENTERING THE UNDERWORLD (2005) - directed by Max Shorter. An entrant in the horror filmmaking contest '2 Days Later', staged annually in Margate.
THE
ENTOMOLOGIST
(2000) - man is haunted by insects
conjured up by his own psyche as he sleeps. Dark and disturbing 17-minute
stop-motion short directed by Darren and Jason Etienne. Shown at Leicester Short
Film Festival 2002.
EPISODES FROM THE LIFE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE (2001) - directed by Paul Bush. “Took up a mere five minutes of the 2001 London Film Festival” – ‘English Gothic’, second edition.
ESCAPE
FROM BROADMOOR (1948)
- “murdered girl’s ghost seeks vengeance on madman” – British
Film Catalogue. 37-minute programmer, directed by John Gilling and including
John le Mesurier among the cast.
ESMERALDA (1922) - Booth Conway as Hugo's 'Hunchback Of Notre Dame', with Sybil Thorndike as the titular object of his affections.
EVIL HERITAGE (1999) - documentary on the films of Norman J.Warren, directed by Darren Perry.
EVIL
RESIDENT (2002)
- “Hammy house of horror guide to ridding your property of unwanted housemates”
- 2002 Birmingham Film And TV Festival. 10-minute short directed by Mark
Lynall.
THE EXHUMATION (1986) - mail-order video short, one of a handful of such
productions from Welsh director Brian Davies' 'Videas Films'. Man depressed
after losing job accidentally runs someone down in his car, hastily buries the
body only to later discover that his victim carried a fortune in cash and that
the only way to get the money is to dig up the corpse...
FACE AT THE WINDOW
(1990) - young writer finds that
an evil doppelganger wants to finish his latest novel. 12-minute short from
amateur filmmaker Colin Hives and his Liverpool-based Shivilenco Pictures.
THE FAKIR'S SPELL (1914) - directed by Frank Newman. Indian fakir turns
man into ape.
FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER (1941) - two-reel version of the Poe story.
THE FATAL HAND (1907) - silent short directed by J.H. Martin. Escaped madman kills a woman and a railway passenger before being apprehended by a sailor.
FATE: PART 1 (2004) - Occult practitioner raises his two sons to take part in a ritual on their 18th birthday - a priest helps to save the boys, only to have an entity summoned to combat him. The story develops further in this 35-minute short directed by Thomas Hamilton and Tracy Jenkins.
FATE: REDUX
(2004) - 6-minute "companion piece to FATE: PART 1 - reimagining the central
images in the form of an extended nightmare". Directed by Tracy Jenkins.
FAUST (1910) - one of at least four European versions of the Faust legend
to be filmed during 1910 alone, this one was based on the Gounod opera and was
accompanied by synchronized songs. Directed by David Darnett.
FAUST (1911) - directed by Cecil Hepworth. Based on Gounod's opera. With
Hay Plumb and Claire Pridelle.
FAUST (1915) - director of this version, Edward Sloman, also played Mephistopheles
in the film.
FAUST (1922) - directed by C.Sanderson. From the 'Tense Moments From
Opera' film series.
FAUST (1923) - directed by Bertram Phillips. From the 'Syncopated Picture
Plays' series.
FAUST (1927) - directed by H.B.Parkinson. From the 'Cameo Operas' series.
FAUST AND MEPHISTOPHELES (1898) - directed by George Albert Smith. The
first British horror film?
THE FEAR (1993) - man trapped in a building is pursued by an unseen entity. Amateur horror short, directed by Chris Skarratt and James Spiller, influenced by THE EVIL DEAD. Ref: 'Samhain' #38.
FEAR NO EVIL (2003) - directed by Andrew Kelly. Entry in the '2 Days Later' short horror film competition staged in Margate, Kent.
THE FEAST (2004) - directed by Justin Aggett. "A dark comedy that features a cannibalistic dinner party" - Beeping Bush Productions. Commended entry in the Kent-based '2 Days Later' short horror film competition.
A FEAST OF FRIENDS (2005) - 17-minute short directed by John Webster, screened at the 2005 Festival of Fantastic Films. "Four businessmen de-stress for the weekend by playing squash and indulging in a little bit of cannibalism".
FIERY MEMNOCH (2006) - U.K. entry in the 'Film Club' website's 'World Short Horror Film Challenge' competition, with entrants invited to make a new horror short within 13 days.
FINAL CUT (2006) - directed by Jess Ratcliffe. Entrant in the annual Kent-based short horror film contest '2 Days Later'.
FLAT 6 (2004) - produced/directed by Neil Hornus. Entry in the second '2 Days Later' short horror film competition, staged in Margate, Kent.
FLUFFY
THE ENGLISH VAMPIRE SLAYER (2001)
- 19-minute ‘Buffy’ parody from the makers of FOILED.
FLYING SAUCER ROCK'N'ROLL (1997) - directed by Enda Hughes. From the
makers of THE ELIMINATOR, a delightful short capturing the mood of an AIP 1950s
drive-in classic to perfection. 'Father Ted' star Ardal O'Hanlon takes top billing
in this jive-crazy alien invasion gem.
THE FOLLOWER
(2006) - U.K. entry in the 'Film Club' website's 'World Short Horror Film Challenge'
competition, with entrants invited to make a new horror short within 13 days.
FOOD (1992) - Czech/U.K. co-production directed by master animator Jan
Svankmajer. 3 brief episodes about eating - breakfasters must first take their
turns as human vending machines; two hungry diners consume everything in a restaurant,
flowers, tables, chairs, cutlery, leading to inevitably horrific climax; at
evening meal in a swanky bistro, customers greedily tuck in to parts of their
own bodies.
THE FORBIDDEN (1978) - Faustian short directed by Clive Barker.
48 HOURS LATER
(2003) - produced and directed by John Evans. Entry in the '2 Days Later' short
horror film competition staged in Margate, Kent.
THE FRAGILE SKIN (2000) -
24-minute film from John Carr, director of CREEPY CRAWLY
- tale of a lesbian heiress and her fate at the hands of a satanic priestess.
FRANKENSTEIN (1969) - shot
on 16mm, the work of students at Sheffield College of Art. “Reconstruction of
scenes from James Whale’s 1931 version” – Stephen Jones, ‘Essential Monster
Movie Guide’. Directed by Alan Harrison.
FRANKENSTEIN'S XPERIMENT (1964) - more from the amateur Delta Film Group.
FURRY
STORY (2002)
- 10-minute CGI animated short featuring the voice of James Nesbitt.
Little girl’s imaginary friend, a ball of fur named ‘Fredglob’, bloodily devours
her family.
THE
GAY GHOST
(196?) - early-1960s short directed
by a teenage Michael Armstrong, years before his career in British horror/exploitation.
Spirit of murder victim takes vengeance on his killer by haunting a schoolboy.
GET GOT (2004)
- amateur zombie short (3 minutes) directed by Dave Pope. Screened at Derby's
Metro Cinema, Halloween 2004.
A GHOST FOR SALE (1952) - a cut-down version of Tod Slaughter's CURSE
OF THE WRAYDONS, possibly book-ended with new footage.
GHOST
FROM THE PAST (2002)
- “spooky tale” made by 15-year-old twins John and Tom Turrell,
screened at the ‘Bang!’ short film event at the Broadway Cinema, Nottingham.
Ref: M.J.Simpson
GHOST TALES RETOLD (1938) - directed by Widgey R.Newman. Apparently a series of shorts based on famous ghost stories; an adaptation of THE MISTLETOE BOUGH (see separate entry) was one, but even genre historians such as Walt Lee or Don Willis have failed to identify other individual titles.
GHOSTHUNTER (2000) - Frank Finlay plays widower intent on contacting his dead wife, becomes involved with a researcher investigating the history of a sinister Victorian organization. Horror short directed by Simon Corris.
GIALLOESQUE
(2006) - 2-minute horror short filmed in Lichfield and entered in the 'Cut!'
short film competition at the 2006 London FrightFest (failing to make the final
shortlist). Directed by Mark Howells. Ref: FrightFest website message forum.
THE GLUTTON'S NIGHTMARE (1901) - produced by Cecil Hepworth; typical
early silent in which overindulgence leads to nightmares and apparitions.
G.M. (2001)
- directed by Martin Pickles. “Edwardian gentleman tormented by spirits
who appear through holes in his sitting-room wallpaper”
- www.gmfilm.co.uk . Georges Melies-inspired
fantasy short.
GOD’S DESK (1999) - shot-on-video short directed by Dave Lilley. Ref: M.J.Simpson - “satanic recruitment consultant tries to persuade a fallen angel to work for the other side”.
THE GRAB (2006) - 2-minute short directed by Kelly Holmes and Joe Barcham. Man retires to bed for the night but two monstrous clawed arms emerge from beneath the mattress…
GRATUITOUS VIOLENCE & GARLIC (1990) - home-made horror directed by Justino Gaveleto. Ref: 'In The Flesh' fanzine #7.
GRAVE
MATTER (2002) - 30-minute “blood drenched splatter horror fest” directed
by Richard Allison. “The story concerns two friends who accidently summon an
ancient evil using a mysterious book of 'Lost Souls'. In order to fight back,
they must call upon the help of an insane brother and a fearless psychopathic
warrior. The only trouble is, they just got high.”. www.trickshot-films.co.uk
GREEN FINGERS (1999) - directed by Paul Cotgrove. Ingrid Pitt and Janina
Faye star in Amicus-style comic horror episode centred around a strange garden.
THE GRIP OF IRON (1913) - directed by Arthur Harrington. First version
of the story about a clerk who doubles as a strangler, later remade in 1920.
THE
GRUESOME GHOST OF GRISWELL CLOSE (1992)
- 10-minute horror short from Shivilenco Pictures, directed by Sean Pritchard,
Colin Hives, and Mark Carolan. “Young man finds that his basement is occupied
by an evil, acid-spitting ghost, and must do all he can to eliminate it”.
GUY'S GUIDE TO ZOMBIES (2006) - 3-minute short directed by Daniel Austin. "terrific spoof of 1950s American public information films, offering practical advice on co-exisiting with the living dead" - Bradford Fantastic Films Weekend 2006 brochure.
HAMMER FALLS
(2006) - finalist in the 'Cut!' short horror films competition at the 2006 London
FrightFest, directed by Andrew Brady. Woodland slasher outing.
HAND
OF FATE (1992) - ref: ‘Shivers’ #10. Horror short filmed on budget of £10,000.
This was eventually expanded into the feature-length comic shocker FUNNY MAN.
HARMONY CORRUPTION
(2004) - produced and directed by Dave Felstead. Submitted as an entry to the
second '2 Days Later' short horror filmmaking contest staged in Margate, Kent,
but not entered in competition as the film did not comply with the contest rules.
THE HAT (1992)
- 7-minute short from Liverpool-based Shivilenco Pictures. Demonic hat
possesses anyone who wears it.
THE
HAUNT
(2002) - directed by Chris Taylor;
another short from enthusiastic amateurs Bumstead Productins, this is a sort of
‘Ghostwatch meets Big Brother’ affair about a gameshow set in “the most
haunted house in Britain”
THE HAUNTED CURIOSITY SHOP (1899) - Robert Paul silent. Antique dealer sees woman turn into mummy and then skeleton.
THE HAUNTED HOTEL (1918) - horror comedy produced by Fred Rains.
HAY
FEVER
(2003) - “a re-interpretation of
the infamous scene from THE EVIL DEAD…some malevolent plants and trees take a
shine to an unsuspecting gardener”. On-line short directed by Anthony
Carpendale and Beki Laws.
HEBA THE SNAKE WOMAN (1915) - Aztec princess transforms into snake and kills doctor.
HEINZ' HALLOWEEN HORROR (200?) - another 'Jim And Heinz' short from the enterprising Blunt Productions. "Heinz finally kills Jim. Is this the end of the line for the two friends, or will the fabric of space-time allow things to be all right again?"
HELLO FRIEND (2003)
- directed by ‘Father Ted’ creator Graham Linehan, this 11-minute short
about a sinister computer called ‘Praemus’ is described as “a very funny horror
film”. Ref: British Films Catalogue.
HELL'S CORNER (2004) - 10-minute short directed by David W. Mault, a supernatural erotic thriller said to be reminiscent of DON'T LOOK NOW.
HER LETTERS
(2006) - directed by Max Shorter. Entrant in the annual Kent-based short horror
film contest '2 Days Later'.
HEX (1971) - Belgian writer and anthologist Michel Parry, a leading figure
on the fringe horror scene in 1970s Britain, produced and directed this short
funded by a grant from the Belgian Film Institute, and centred around black
magic and human sacrifice.
HIGHGATE
HOUSE OF HORROR (1995)
- pre-stardom, the quartet who ultimately hit fame as ‘The League Of
Gentlemen’ shot this home-made video anthology, excerpts from which can be
found on the DVD of their BBC Christmas special. With Steve Pemberton as a
voodoo god, Reece Shearsmith cutting up bodies in his bathroom, and homages to
everything from TRILOGY OF TERROR to DON’T LOOK NOW.
THE HIKERS (2004) - 25-minute amateur horror short directed by Gaetano Malaponti. 2 woodland hikers are menaced by a masked killer who suspects his wife of seeing other men. Ref: www.britishhorrorfilms.co.uk
A HISS IN THE WIND
(2006) - comic horror short directed by Owen Davies, screened at the 'Bang!
Mayhem' short film showcase in Nottingham. Two hitchhikers are attacked by a
menacing swan and encounter a weird community where everyone seems to have had
their arms broken, presumably by the same creature!
HOLIDAY (2006) -
finalist in the 'most popular b-movie' category at Kent's annual '2 Days Later'
short horror film contest. Directed by Neil Hornus.
HOOVER
HOMICIDE
(199?) - or more accurately, the
‘Hoover Homicide Quadrology’ -
four short amateur films from director Adam Trotman depicting the antics of a
killer vacuum cleaner. Trotman later teamed up with fellow no-budget director
Thomas Lawes to make various shorts and the Screen Edge-released feature
DEMAGOGUE.
HORRID INTERMISSIONS (1980) - ref: ‘English Gothic’. Horror short directed by Laurence Boulting.
HORROR
FILM EXTRACT
(2003) - directed by Amy Kemp,
a film student at Gateway College, Leicester. Ref: M.J. Simpson
- “an extract from a proposed
longer work…had little by way of narrative but was genuinely fraught, as it
followed its protagonist around his home, with newspaper cuttings about Myra
Hindley and other murderers on the walls, and some raw (human?) meat on the
table.”
HORRORSHOW (1987) - directed by Paul Hart-Wilden. Special effects showreel
for budding filmmaker Hart-Wilden, screened to some acclaim at the Scala Cinema's
'Splatterfest' in 1990. It turns up in Dick Randall's compendium DON'T SCREAM
IT'S ONLY A MOVIE, and Hart-Wilden later scripted LIVING DOLL for the same producer.
HORSEPLAY (2005) - Man finds bodybag washed up on beach, discovers it to contain his doppelganger. The double attacks him, puts him in the bodybag and floats it back out to sea, taking his place and finishing his crossword puzzle. 3-minute short directed by Simon Burrill.
THE HOUR OF ABSOLUTION (2006) - finalist in the 'best student film' category at Kent's annual short horror film contest '2 Days Later'. Directed by S. Dye and S. Robinson.
HOUSE OF DOLLS (2006) - horror short directed by John Rankin, made as an entry for the 'Film Club' website's 'World Short Horror Film Challenge' in October 2006. Rival eBay bidders compete to purchase rare military figurines - with a deadly outcome.
HOUSE OF STRANGERS (1991) - amateur b&w short (12 minutes) directed by Richard 'Rocco' Hele. Ref: 'In The Flesh' fanzine #8; "Morticia Adams(sic) look alike with a penchant for smothering her boyfriends...killer spider...monster that turns people into mush...grim reaper type character".
HOUSEBOUND
(1999) - ref: M.J.Simpson -
“20-minute short by Stephen Lawson about two teenage schoolboys who kidnap a
girl, finishes with two of the three characters dismembered”.
HUBRIS
(2002) - 14-minute short directed by Natasha Tilley, shown at the
2002 Festival Of Fantastic Films. Young aristocratic couple hold a party at
their mansion, but seeking further thrills, decide to go grave-robbing. “They
become trapped in the sinister world of the living dead which unravels an awful
destiny – one which has controlled them all along” – Festival Of Fantastic
Films brochure.
HUNGRY (2003) 13-minute short directed by Robert Chadwick, screened at the Festival Of Fantastic Films; “A young man becomes a main course, when he discovers one of the rooms in his office has a life of its own and has developed an appetite for people”.
HUNTING HUMANS (1992) - amateur horror short made in Cheshire on a budget of just £10! Ordinary-looking man is revealed to have murdered one victim, then picks up a hitchhiker whom he injects with bleach, stabs in the stomach, and axes in the head! Directed by Stephen McCallum; screened in a 35-minute version at the Festival Of Fantastic Films in Manchester but eventually edited down to 19 minutes.
I AM A YOUTUBE.COM SNUFF VIDEO MAKER (2006) - winner of 'best film' at the 2006 '2 Days Later' short horror movie contest staged in Kent. Directed by Alan Meades.
I
AM PETER CUSHING (2002)
- directed by Al Lougher and starring Mark Renshaw, this 10-minute short
won the ‘best amateur short’ award at the 2002 Festival Of Fantastic Films.
Comedy about a delusional man who, inspired by Hammer’s ‘Van Helsing’
character, believes himself to be a vampire hunter - in a world where no
vampires exist!
THE IMAGE (1968) - directed by Michael Armstrong. David Bowie, pre-superstardom, stars in this rather good fragment from Armstrong, about an artist haunted by the apparition of a young man. 'New Musical Express' made this available by mail order in 1984 as part of a compilation called 'Video Bongo'.
IMAGES OF HELEN (1998) - "an old woman is tormented by the ghost of her neighbour, a girl brutally beaten to death by her boyfriend" - Internet Movie Database. 25-minute short directed by Pete Jensko.
IN REMEMBRANCE OF ME (2003) - directed by David Colenutt. Entry in the '2 Days Later' short horror film competition staged in Margate, Kent.
IN
SEARCH OF THE HIGHGATE VAMPIRE (2001)
- video CD directed by Dave Milner, featuring real-life ‘vampire hunter’
David Farrant. Further documentation of Farrant’s quest for the undead appeared
in the later production VAMPIRES -
THE NORTH GATE.
INSPECTOR'S DIARIES (2001) - 9-minute item, included on the DVD of Richard Driscoll's film KANNIBAL. Lucien Morgan, in the guise of his inspector character from that movie, presents a study of real-life serial killers who have been portrayed in movies. "Staggeringly amateurish" - M.J. Simpson.
INTERACTIVE
(2002)
- 10-minute short directed by Stephen Kilkie, screened at the 2002 Festival
Of Fantastic Films. Man watching late-night t.v. sees himself being murdered.
He awakens – and finds himself watching t.v., where he sees himself being murdered…
INTRUDER (2006) - U.K.
entry in the 'Film Club' website's 'World Short Horror Film Challenge' competition,
with entrants invited to make a new horror short within 13 days.
ITCH
(2006) - U.K. entry in the 'Film Club' website's 'World Short Horror Film Challenge'
competition, with entrants invited to make a new horror short within 13 days.
JOE AND HARRY (2003)
- directed by Tim Long. Entry in the '2 Days Later' short horror film competition
staged in Margate, Kent.
JONES' NIGHTMARE (1911) - directed by and starring Fred Rains - man dreams
he is pursued by demons and a giant lobster, and that he is fired up to the
moon.
KAMPUS KILLER (2003) - directed by Adam Webb. Entry in the '2 Days Later' short horror film competition staged in Margate, Kent.
KASTING (2006) - winner of the 'Cut!' short horror film competition at the 2006 London FrightFest. Directed by Aloysha Saari.
THE KID (2006) - U.K. entry in the 'Film Club' website's 'World Short Horror Film Challenge' competition, with entrants invited to make a new horror short within 13 days.
KILLER PUNCH (1982) - one of the three shorts later compiled into the feature SCREAMTIME; this one's about a Punch-and-Judy man who brings the traditional seaside story to life, with himself in the role of the psychotic Mr.Punch.
KILLERWATT!! (2006) - a finalist in the 'best popular film' section of the '2 Days Later' short horror movie contest staged in Kent. Directed by Bill Lyn.
THE KILLIN' (2005)
- 10-minute comedy-horror short directed by Kevin Powis; three friends scare
each other while discussing an unsolved local murder as they walk home through
the woods. Reviewed at M.J. Simpson's website.
THE KISS (1977) - directed by Kevin Pither. Short sex/horror item - young
couple make love, after which the figure of Death appears, leading them through
the country landscape. The woman kisses the man - suddenly, it is revealed that
they are travelling in a car, which promptly crashes into a tree and bursts
into flames.
LADY FRANKENSTEIN
(196?) - ref: 'muswell', posted at 'British Horror Films' website February 2006;
"there was an outfit called Collectors Club based near Old Street in London
that during the late 60s into the 70s distributed 8mm copies of silent movies.
They also had a series of glamour films that they produced themselves which
included a title called LADY FRANKENSTEIN in which a hunchback brings a nude
female to life - she runs around for a while before drinking a potion that turns
her into a zombie who turns on the hunchback".
THE
LAKE (1978) - ghost story about
a couple having a picnic, directed by Lindsay Vickers. Atmospheric 33-minute
short which played in cinemas as support to A FORCE OF ONE.
THE
LAST DAY TOGETHER
(2003) - directed by Samantha Black, a film student at Gateway
College, Leicester. Ref: M.J. Simpson – “a quite nasty character study of an
obsessive and possessive boyfriend arguing with and killing his girlfriend then
stuffing her body in his car-boot for disposal.”
LATE NIGHT
SHOPPING
(2003) - “an erotic, hypnotic
vampire film”. Internet-aimed short (though publicly screened on June 20th
2003 at Hoxton Hall, London), directed by Anthony Carpendale and Beki Laws.
LEFT
HAND DRIVE (1993)
- based on the short story from Christopher Fowler’s urban horror collection
‘City Jitters’. Businessman mows down homeless teenager in his BMW but cannot
escape the consequences of his hit-and-run behaviour.
LEGEND OF THE WEREWOLF (1974) - British Film Institute short on the making of the Tyburn film LEGEND OF THE WEREWOLF; filmed as an accompaniment to their educational book by Edward Buscombe which took the Tyburn movie as its subject.
LET THE MORNING COME (2005) - short directed by Gene Chee, shown at Birmingham Arts Fest, September 2005. Animation inspired by Richard Matheson's 'I Am Legend'.
LILY¹S STORY (2002) Imaginative, low-budget, silent stop-motion 3-minute short directed by Sian Molloy. A girl is kidnapped by a demon with pound coins for eyes; she chops his head off and uses the money to buy a spade to tunnel her way out of Hades. Shown at Leicester Short Film Festival 2002.
LINDERIDGE 137 (1980) - babysitter is pestered by mysterious telephone calls and spied on by stalker, and is eventually revealed to have been murdered. East Midlands Arts-funded short which attempts to analyse the effects of the subjective camera and point-of-view in the contemporary slasher movie. "An important essay on the codes of suspense in the horror and thriller genres" - Monthly Film Bulletin (February 1983).
LITTLE BLACK
(2005) - young girl travels to city to meet her grandmother, but ends up mysteriously
impregnated and giving birth to a strange (unseen) creature in an hotel room.
16-minute short directed by Alastair Austin and Jason Martin, a sort of update
of 'Little Red Riding Hood' showing the influence of Svankmajer, Tim Burton,
etc. Ref: John Rankin.
THE LOBSTER NIGHTMARE (1910) - man is tormented by a lobster and devilish
imps in Hell.
LOCH NESS LEGEND (1948) - brief animation; monster footprints terrify
villagers, the beast himself making an appearance for the closing gag.
LOCK IN (2006) - finalist in the 'best student film' category at Kent's annual short horror film contest '2 Days Later'. Directed by Matt Lees.
THE
LONELY DEATH OF COUNT MOGGIE, VAMPIRE
(1999) - test piece, shot by Andrew
Morris-Henshaw of www.malleus.co.uk to
hone his computer editing skills. Eventually revamped and expanded as the
internet short LOOKING FOR GATRI.
LONELY HEARTS (1992) - directed by Ian Powell. Black and white short, screened at the Leeds Film Festival and at Spencer Hickman's 'Nothing Shocking 3' event in Northampton. Homo-erotic encounter in a dark alleyway progresses to violence and eventual, graphic and bloody removal of one unfortunate character's face.
LOOKING FOR GATRI (2000) - directed by Ruth Elizabeth and Andrew John Morris. First in a proposed series of Internet horror shorts available for download at www.malleus.co.uk . "Alex is about to undergo a night of disturbing revelations at the hands of a Vampire Queen he cannot afford to believe in".
LOST
IN THE WOODS
(2002) Zero-budget camcorder short directed by Jonathan Wright, inspired by
THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT. Three boys encounter an ET puppet and a homicidal jelly
baby! Shown at Leicester Short Film Festival 2002. Ref: M.J.Simpson.
LOU-LOU LIVES HERE
(2003) - 4-minute b&w short directed by Hazel Grian. Little girl menaced in
the woods by a stalker turns the tables on her attacker by transforming into
a vicious dog, attacking him before running back home to her owner.
LOVE OF A HUNCHBACK (1910) - short inspired by Hugo's 'Hunchback Of Notre
Dame'. The first film to be produced by that British institution, Butcher's
Films.
THE LOVER (1996) - directed by Andrew Muscroft. Middle-aged woman yearns
for the return of her lover from years past, reviving him for one final dance
with death. Romantic semi-horror short, screened at 1997's Festival Of Fantastic
Films. Was originally to have starred Ingrid Pitt, who walked off set following
disagreements with Muscroft!
MACABRE (2006)
- winner of 'most popular b-movie' at the annual '2 Days Later' short horror
film contest in Kent. Directed by Russel Gomm.
THE MADMAN'S BRIDE (1907) - Hepworth silent. "Mad lord buys girl from
father, kills her during night" - British Film Catalogue.
THE MAGIC SWORD (1901) - directed by Walter Booth; for Robert Paul. Fantasy
featuring witch, ogre, ghost, cauldron, man transformed into giant.
A MAJOR SWIPE (1992) - short remake of Roald Dahl's 'Lamb To The Slaughter', directed by Dan Gale.
THE MAKING OF KANNIBAL (2001) - behind-the-scenes documentary included on the DVD version of Richard Driscoll's KANNIBAL.
MALIGN
INTELLECT
(2003) - student short directed by
David Watts of Regent College, Leicester. Ref: M.J. Simpson -
“after a slightly gimmicky start (including
a spoof trailer for DEATH MURDER KILL and clips from DAWN OF THE DEAD, SCREAM
and TOY STORY!), this settled down into an intense look inside the mind of a
schizophrenic psychopath. Very tense, taught direction with effective use of
narration and surprisingly sparing use of blood and violence.”
THE MAN AND HIS
BOTTLE (1908) - Hepworth short, directed by Lewin Fitzhamon, about the perils
of the demon drink. Alcoholic is tormented by devils and giant bug-monsters,
who eventually bottle him!
THE MAN AND THE SNAKE (1972) - directed by Sture Rydman. Based on an
Ambrose Bierce story; man frightened to death by king cobra. Rydman used Bierce
as a source again for THE RETURN (1973).
MAN WITH A FORK (2003) - 35-minute short directed by Ben Steiner. "The story of a human meat salesman and his struggle with promotion, professional rivalry and crippling attacks of nausea; an unsettling slice of cannibal noir" - Portobello Film Festival.
THE MAN WITH THE
EXPLODING BELLY (2005) - the titular guinea pig is advised not to drink
an experimental serum, but does, with gory results as described! Brief, simple,
comic-horror short from Derby-based Joe Atom and Magic Dan. Very catchy theme
tune!
MARIA MARTEN: OR, THE MURDER IN THE RED BARN (1913) - directed by Maurice
Elvey.
MARIA MARTIN: OR, THE MURDER IN THE RED BARN (1902) - directed by Dicky
Winslow, with the unfortunate victim's name spelled incorrectly in the title!
THE MARK OF LILITH (1986) - co-directed by Bruna Fionda, Polly Gladwin,
and Isiling Mack-Nataf - lesbian filmmaker researching into the iconography
of monstrous women becomes involved with a female vampire.
MEAT ME (2005)
- 9-minute horror short, set in the London financial district. Directed by Matteo
Prezioso.
THE MIRROR AND MARKHEIM (1954) - directed by John Lamont. Philip Saville,
Arthur Lowe, and Christopher Lee star in adaptation of an R.L.Stevenson tale.
Strange visitant shows a man the consequences of his proposed action to murder
a pawnbroker.
THE MISER'S DOOM (1899) - directed by Walter Booth. "The spirit of a
female victim returns to haunt a miser, who instantly dies of shock" - Denis
Gifford, 'a Pictorial History Of Horror Movies'.
THE MISTLETOE BOUGH (1904) - famous British ghost story; bride and groom
play hide-and-seek on wedding day, only for the bride to vanish - years later,
the groom experiences visions of her and finds her skeleton in a trunk. This
version directed by Percy Stow.
THE MISTLETOE BOUGH (1923) - directed by Edwin Collins. One of a series
of shorts under the banner title 'Gems Of Literature'. The story was next filmed
in 1926 as part of the 'Haunted Castles' series (see separate entry).
THE MISTLETOE BOUGH (1938) - directed by Widgey R.Newman - part of the
GHOST TALES RETOLD series.
THE MONKEY’S PAW (1984) -
directed by Andrew Barker. Half-hour short based on the W.W. Jacobs story.
MONSTERS (2004)
- first live-action short from animator Robert Morgan, director of THE CAT WITH
HANDS.
MOONSHADOWS (1998) - (animated?) short produced at Bournemouth's Arts
Institute, directed by Jonathan Nagi. "Modern ghost story inspired by real-life
events and ancient mythology. A mother cat takes supernatural revenge for the
drowning of her kittens" - British Films Catalogue 1998.
THE
MOST BORING WOMAN IN THE WORLD
(2002) - 16-minute short directed
by Anthony Carpendale, based on a Christopher Fowler short story. Screened at
London’s Curzon Cinema in March 2003. “A downtrodden
housewife dreams of escaping from her boring existence and adulterous husband.
She decides to take control, with the aid of a wok and a selection of stainless
steel kitchen knives...”
MRS. AMWORTH (1975) - directed by Alvin Rakoff. Glynis Johns as a centuries-old
vampire posing as a society hostess. Based on a story by E.F.Benson, this was
designed as the pilot for an unproduced series (for t.v.?) called 'Classics
Dark And Dangerous'.
MRS. DAVENPORT'S THROAT (2005) - short written by David McGillivray, directed by Keith Claxton. Filmed in Lisbon.
MUCUS MURDERS (1991) - amateur horror-comedy short - killer nose squirts luminous green mucus at victims. From the makers of HOUSE OF STRANGERS and THE ZOMBIE DEATHRAY. Ref: 'In The Flesh' fanzine #8.
MUTANT! (2006) - 16-minute amateur short, "An 'Inspector Zucker' Mystery". Man infected with experimental serum becomes green-faced monster who stalks beachfront area after dark. Directed by Jan Manthey & Jed Leicester.
NATURAL BIRTHING
(2006) - directed by Lawrence Axe and Slade Larney. A finalist at the London
FrightFest 'Cut!' short horror film competition, 2006.
NAUSEA (1995) - abstract scenes of violence and gore in what amounts
to a showreel for Paul Shrimpton's video mail order operation, 'Home Made Films'.
NIGHT OF THE MONOCHROME MONSTERS (1997) - the revival of the Delta Film
Group, for their first home-movie production in 25 years.
NIGHT OFF OF THE LIVING DEAD (2003)
- half-hour short directed by Richard Matthews. “Jeremy Frantz is a
member of the living dead, the butt of society’s narrow-minded prejudice,
unable to hold down a job due to his putrid, decomposing body, feared due to his
craving for human brains. This mockumentary film documents the many problems
Jeremy encounters in his day-to-day death”.
NIGHT
PASTOR (198?)
- an early work from CRADLE OF FEAR helmer Alex Chandon, starring Neil
Keenan as an evil priest, murdering down-and-outs to bring them ‘closer to
God’.
NIGHTMARE
(1957) - short directed by Michael Armstrong, made when the budding
writer/director was just 12! Boy has recurring visions in which he is pursued
by a mysterious pair of eyes, eventually revealed as the headlights of a car
which runs him down for real.
NIGHTMARES AND DREAMSCAPES (2003) - produced and directed by Mike Stokes. Entry in the '2 Days Later' short horror film competition staged in Margate, Kent.
THE NIGHTSHIFTERS (2006) - U.K. entry in the 'Film Club' website's 'World Short Horror Film Challenge' competition, with entrants invited to make a new horror short within 13 days.
9TH FLAW (2006)
- winner of 'best student film' at the annual '2 Days Later' short horror filmmaking
contest staged annually in Kent.
NOT WITHOUT MY HANDBAG (1997) - animated short, directed by Boris Kossmehl for the award-winning
Aardman company. The small print on a washing machine guarantee means that the
purchaser has sold her soul to Satan -
but she returns as a zombie from Hell to reclaim the handbag she left behind!
NOTHING TO FEAR (2006) - U.K. entry in the 'Film Club' website's 'World Short Horror Film Challenge' competition, with entrants invited to make a new horror short within 13 days.
OCTOBER MOURNING
(2006) - U.K. entry in the 'Film Club' website's 'World Short Horror Film
Challenge' competition, with entrants invited to make a new horror short within
13 days.
OLD MANOR HOUSE (1948) - directed by Harold F.Mack. Cartoon - character
called 'Bubble', and his talking taxi-cab 'Squeaky', meet the Frankie Stein
Monster at the title property.
ON EDGE (1998) - directed
by Frazer Lee. Dental depravity in this 15-minute cinemascope short based on
story by Christopher Fowler, starring Doug Bradley.
ONE TOO EXCITING NIGHT (1912) - Hepworth silent. Man buys country house
which is said to be haunted. Bedroom ornaments begin to move, and a ghostly
apparition materialises through a window.
THE OPENING (2006) - short directed by Owen Tooth. A man who finds himself unable to utter sounds seeks assistance in finding his true voice, but with horrific consequences.
ORPHILIA (2004) - 2-minute silent vampire short, in a Germanic style. Directed by Kristina Davies
OUROBOROS (2006)
- directed by Chris Lean. Entrant in the annual Kent-based short horror film
contest '2 Days Later'.
OVER
THE EDGE (1994) - 15-minute horror short from Liverpool’s Shivilenco Pictures.
“A man’s attempts to get a decent sleep end in murder and revenge”.
OVERTIME (2006)
- U.K. entry in the 'Film Club' website's 'World Short Horror Film Challenge'
competition, with entrants invited to make a new horror short within 13 days.
PANIC (1978) - directed by James Dearden. Avis Bunnage stars in this
tense tale - young woman hears radio news reports of a dangerous escaped lunatic,
who turns out to be the little old lady to whom she has offered a lift. Good
ending borrowed from Fritz Lang's DR.MABUSE as traffic lights switch to green
but a vehicle significantly remains stationary.
THE PAPER BAG MAN REMIX (1991) - group of skateboarders raise the Paper Bag Man via ouija board and are killed off one by one. Amateur comedy/gore short (22 minutes) from Home Made Productions, Thirsk. Followed by a sequel THE RETURN OF THE PAPER BAG MAN (AND FRIENDS) - see 'problems' list. Ref: 'Samhain' #38
PARANOIA (2003) - directed by Joe Morris. Entry in the '2 Days Later' short horror film competition staged in Margate, Kent.
PATHÉ PICTORIAL NO. 131: TOD SLAUGHTER (1938) - 5-minute Pathé programme filler. Ref: Internet Movie Database - "Tod Slaughter introduces himself in brief vignettes of some of his most famous parts (Sweeney Todd, Squire William Corder, etc.)"
PATHÉTONE
WEEKLY NO. 314 (1936) - 4-minute Pathé
programme filler – reporter visits British horror legend Tod Slaughter at ‘home’
(a ramshackle, run-down place that houses a torture chamber!) only to be kidnapped
by Slaughter who spends the remainder of the running time sharpening a razor
on a strop, threatening the interviewer, and severing the leg of a chorus girl
who happens by! Ref: Internet Movie Database.
PIMPLE SEES
GHOSTS (1915) - Fred and Joe Evans directed the series of 'Pimple' one-reel
comedies between 1912-20. This entry has the hero (played by Fred Evans) frightened
by fake spooks.
THE PIT (1962) - directed by Edward Abraham. BFI short based on Poe's
'The Pit And The Pendulum'.
PLASTIC REALITY (2006) - 13-minute horror short directed by Tristan Versluis (credited as 'Doctor Versluis'). Mugging victim attempts to clean themselves up in a public toilet in the wake of the attack, only to have their face stolen by something which lurks nearby…
THE PLEDGE (1981)
- directed by Digby Rumsey. 18th century highwayman's associates pledge to cut
down his hanging corpse in order to release his soul. "As a period snippet
of British horror, Rumsey's film is some distance from the confident, gruesome
poetry of WITCHFINDER GENERAL" - Monthly Film Bulletin (September 1982).
Edited by Peter Greenaway, music by Michael Nyman; incongruously released as
support to PORKY'S in 1982! Director Rumsey played the figure of Death in THE
KISS (1977).
POSSESSIONS (1981) - directed by Andrew Bogle. Couple move into a house where, a century earlier, a man had murdered his wife's lover, hanging the body in a wardrobe for her to discover. The modern-day husband happens upon the same piece of furniture and re-installs it in its former site...from the director of DARK WATER, another ITC horror short, which played with THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE on its 1981 U.K. release.
PRELUDE (1927) - directed by Castleton Knight. Man listening to Rachmaninoff's 'Prelude' dreams that he has been buried alive. Inspired by Poe's 'the Premature Burial'.
PREY (2003)
- horror short directed by Adam Mason, co-helmer of feature THE 13TH
SIGN.
PROFESSOR PUDDENHEAD'S PATENTS: THE ELECTRIC ENLARGER (1909) - directed by Walter Booth. Sequel to PROFESSOR PUDDENHEAD'S PATENTS: THE AEROCAB AND VACUUM PROVIDER. The professor invents an electric wand which enlarges anything it touches, resulting in a monster moth, a gigantic fox, a man's super-inflated head, a huge caterpillar, and the professor's own butler as a giant whom the prof blows to bits.
PSYCHO’S
ON SUTTON STREET (1991) - more
from Colin Hives and Shivilenco Pictures. “A children’s sleepover turns into
a bloodbath after harmless game goes terribly wrong”.
PUZZLE
CORNER NO. 14 (1954) - one of a series of odd-sounding quiz shorts, narrated by
Ronnie Waldman. This particular edition cuts from a question about a pub called
‘The Slaughtered Calf’ to a soliloquy from the grand British horror star Tod
Slaughter, in character as Sweeney Todd, musing about his past victims and
talking to a large sack balanced on a barber’s chair (the contents of which
are not revealed!). Ref: Internet Movie Database.
QUINT AND BRODY
(2003)
- student short directed by Jon Harris of Regent College, Leicester. Ref:
M.J. Simpson
- “a very funny black comedy about two gay men. Shot in black and white
with sepia flashbacks, this was a silent film with looped, wordless nonsense
dialogue and nicely designed intertitles. One of the men fell prey to a hooded,
machete wielding maniac (billed as ‘Medieval Warrior’ in the credits) while
making a cup of tea, and when the other came looking for him the maniac attacked
again.”
RANDOM STABBING + PRODDING WITH SCALPELS AND POWER TOOLS (1992) - fake head and torso are cut apart with power-drill and circular saw, with copious amounts of gore. Would-be arty short directed by Andy Bullock. "Gore for gore's sake" - 'In The Flesh' fanzine #10.
REBELLION
OF THE DEAD
(1990) - 5-minute zombie film made
by Andrew Morris and Mark Cox, designed as a spoof news broadcast about the
dead returning to life in Worcester!
RECALLING GATRI (2002) - the further adventures of Alex Monday, vampire hunter, first seen in the internet short LOOKING FOR GATRI. See www.malleus.co.uk
THE RECKONING (2002) - 12-minute horror short directed by Chris Barfoot, starring Mark Chapman.
RECYCLED
(2002)
- ten-minute short directed by Jacqui McAlpine, made as part of the ‘Tartan
Smalls’ series for BBC Scotland and CBBC. “When Michael Moore’s wheelie bin
devours his step-dad, it’s late nights, pizzas, and scary movies – not to mention
a short trip to the bin for anyone who crosses him. For Michael, it’s just a
bit of fun, but as his behaviour gets out of hand, the wheelie bins whet their
appetites for a taste of Michael himself”.
RED (1976) - directed by Astrid Frank. Ferdy Mayne, Gabrielle Drake,
Mark Wynter, and Roy North (using the name 'Steve Brownelow') starred in this
item about an artist sketching a portrait of a young girl. That night, he is
witness to a mock trial which results in the girl being decapitated; only for
her to re-appear, apparently unharmed, the following morning. But does she have
a ruby necklace around her throat - or a scar?
THE RED BARN CRIME: OR, MARIA MARTIN (1908) - directed by William Haggar.
Turn-of-the-century fairground exhibitor Haggar's version of the Red Barn case,
with his son Walter as the murdering Squire.
RED HARVEST (2006) - directed by Emma Thomas. Entrant in the annual Kent-based short horror film contest '2 Days Later'.
RED
LINES (2002)
- horror short directed by Frazer Lee (ON EDGE) and starring Doug Bradley.
“The tale of a school detention gone wrong” – Lee, quoted in an interview at
www.mjsimpson.co.uk
RE: RUN (2004)
- produced and directed by Jeremy Bond. Entry in the second '2 Days Later' short
horror film competition staged in Margate, Kent.
RETRIBUTION (1981) - directed by Gregory Dark. This one played with FRIDAY
THE 13TH PART 3 on its initial U.K. release - one scene features brutal knife-killing,
played out in silhouette against a whitewashed wall.
THE RETURN (1973) - directed by Sture Rydman. Director of THE MAN AND
THE SNAKE adapts A.M.Burrage's 'Nobody's House', adding elements from Ambrose
Bierce's 'The Middle Toe Of The Right Foot', for ghostly chiller starring Peter
Vaughan.
THE RETURN OF NEVILLE DEDD (1990) - directed by Keith Boak. Biker is
killed but returns as living corpse. Channel 4 short.
RETURN TO GLENNASCAUL (1951) - directed by Hilton Edwards. Orson Welles
narrates and stars in this anecdotal Irish ghost story - man gives a lift to
two women one evening, only to discover next day that they have been dead for
years and their decaying house is uninhabited.
REYNARD (2006) - U.K. entry in the 'Film Club' website's 'World Short Horror Film Challenge' competition, with entrants invited to make a new horror short within 13 days.
RISE OF THE VAMPIRE
(2005) - 14-minute short directed by Steve Darnley, screened at the 2005 Festival
of Fantastic Films. "Hitler sends an SS captain to locate the tomb of Vlad The
Impaler. But when the evil inside becomes too powerful, it's up to an allied
platoon, a German prisoner and a Dutch professor to save the day".
ROCK
D.J. (2000) - controversial promotional video for Robbie Williams’ hit
single, made commercially available on tape and DVD in the summer of 2000. Robbie’s
flesh and muscle is torn to pieces before a baying female audience in a shocking
display of “give the crowd what they want” culture. Banned from ‘Top Of The
Pops’ in its full-length form!
ROCK’N’ROLL WEREWOLF (2000) - 4-minute short from Fantom Productions. “A man is not happy at the way a hit has gone. But is he wise to threaten the Wolfman?”.
THE ROOM (2006) - U.K. entry in the 'Film Club' website's 'World Short Horror Film Challenge' competition, with entrants invited to make a new horror short within 13 days.
RUNT (2005) - student film directed by Steph Busby, entered at Margate's annual '2 Days Later' competition for short horror movies shot within a 48-hour period.
SACRIFICE
(2002)
- three-minute short directed by John Richards. “The Women’s
Institute go WICKER MAN as the strange church fundraising secret of a small
Welsh village is hilariously revealed” -
FrightFest website.
THE SANDMAN (1993) - animated film by Paul Berry, described as being "a send-up on a 'bumps-in-the-night' scare theme" (San Francisco Chronicle). Child sent to bed is visited by a bird-like creature who steals the boy's eyes to feed his offspring. "Caligari-esque production design and superb animation make this genuinely scary" - M.J. Simpson.
SANDSIDE EXPERIMENT (2006) - U.K. entry in the 'Film Club' website's 'World Short Horror Film Challenge' competition, with entrants invited to make a new horror short within 13 days.
SATURDAY NIGHT CREATURE (2006) - U.K. entry in the 'Film Club' website's 'World Short Horror Film Challenge' competition, with entrants invited to make a new horror short within 13 days.
SCARY THRILLER (2002) - "stop-motion horror extravaganza" from Tony Mines and Tim Drage, who specialize in making animated short films using Lego.
SCHERZO (1992) - Eerie U.K./Czech horror short by Robert Wynne Simmons and Hannah Hodicek. Shadow-creatures threaten a young boy and his sleeping baby brother.
SCHOOL OF DEATH (2005) - horror short entered in 2005's '2 Days Later' filmmaking contest in Margate.
SCHOOL RUN (2006) - U.K. entry in the 'Film Club' website's 'World Short Horror Film Challenge' competition, with entrants invited to make a new horror short within 13 days.
SCOOBY DEAD (200?) - novelty five-minute short splicing the soundtrack of THE EVIL DEAD to images from the ‘Scooby Doo’ cartoon series. Directed by S. Mark Gubb.
THE SECOND DEATH (2000) – ref: ‘English Gothic’, second edition
SEEK, SEE, AND BE SEEN
(2006) - directed by Lauren Stocker. Entrant in the annual Kent-based short
horror film contest '2 Days Later'.
SELF DESTRUCT (1991) - Man whose girlfriend has been killed in a road accident debates whether to commit suicide. A finalist in the 'Opportunity Shocks' amateur filmmaking competition sponsored by The Dark Side magazine. "This one had a definite HELLRAISER feel to it, and strong echoes of THE SHINING in a sequence where a bloated old hag is found in a bathtub" - The Dark Side (September 1991).
SELF-HELP (2005) - short directed by Lawrence Axe, screened at London Frightfest in August 2005.
SERENADE FROM FAUST (1906) - directed by Arthur Gilbert, as part of his five-film series for Gaumont, 'Chronophone Films' - these were an early attempt at sound cinema, synchronizing on-screen visuals to music and sound played on an accompanying gramophone record. Starring Charles Wingrave and Gwendoline Burney.
THE
SHIELING OF THE ONE NIGHT
(2002) - 25-minute short directed
by Rory O’Donnell. “A ghost story based on a traditional Celtic legend”
– Turns Film Ltd. publicity blurb. Starring Sylvester McCoy.
SHOCK ENDING (1987) - another mail order special from the Welsh 'Videas' team, directed by Brian Davies. Suburban murder is accidentally recorded on to a borrowed videotape, which falls into the hands of some friends of the suspected killer.
THE SHOE COLLECTOR (2003) - “Are shoes better than sex? Are shoes to die for? The Shoe Collector is unscrupulous in the search to acquire objects of desire. Stylish thriller/horror” - British Films Catalogue. 3-minute short directed by Justin Smith.
A SHORT FILM ABOUT JOHN BOLTON (2002)
- horror short directed by Neil Gaiman, revealing the ‘true
inspiration’ behind the work of comics artist Bolton. Ref: ‘Starburst’
#306.
SHROVES (2001) - “Wry comedy about a Eurocrat visiting a small rural
community, with more than a passing resemblance to cult horror film THE WICKER
MAN” - 2002 Birmingham Film And
TV Festival. 12-minute short directed by John Humphreys.
THE SIGNALMAN (2000) - railway worker begins to see visions of a ghost who tells him of accidents before they occur. Based on the Charles Dickens story? Directed by Steve Tolle.
THE SILENT SCREAM (2006) - a finalist at the London Frightfest 'Cut!' short horror film competition, compared to THE VANISHING by the judges. Directed by Neil Thornton.
THE
SIN EATER
(1996) - 12-minute short starring
Rhys Ifans as a man employed to eat a meal from the coffins of the deceased
in order to consume their sins. Also starring Josie Lawrence. BBC/Channel 4
co-production. Ref: M.J. Simpson.
SISTER (2006) - directed by Michael Stokes. Entrant in the annual Kent-based short horror film contest '2 Days Later'.
SISTER LULU (2000) – Welsh b&w horror short directed by Phil John. “Darkly erotic tale set in a closed Monastic order” – FrightFest website.
62 PAGES (2005) - 38-minute short by teenage amateur director Andrew John. Satanic notebook, demonic apparition, power-tool gore, zombies. Reviewed at M.J. Simpson's website.
SKELINGTON (1998) - "the
ultimate in surrealist horror" - just 39 seconds long, early animated film from
the 'Spite Your Face' team who later began to specialise in stop-motion movies
using Lego!
SLOW ROT (1995)
- mail order item from 'Home Made Films' in Thirsk, as usual the work of Paul
Shrimpton. Young man consumes some maggot-ridden chips and becomes a decomposing
zombie.
SON OF GODZILLA (1963) - the amateur Delta Film Group nabbed this title
four years before Toho produced the official version of Godzilla's offspring.
SON OF MICHAEL MYERS
(1990) - directed by Darryl Sloan.
9-minute amateur short from Northern Ireland, basic ‘masked killer with a big
knife’ stuff but a rather well-edited and often gripping ‘tribute’ to the HALLOWEEN
series.
SON OF PSYCHO MEETS A GORILLA (2001) - 38-minute short. Ref: Gavin Whitaker: "gorilla runs amok in the North West countryside".
SOUL PATROL (2000) - ref: The Film Centre website - "Horror movie fan thinks all women are vampires; you let them put the bite on you and they've got you for good. Earl, you see, has a problem with commitment. One night...he meets and falls for the beautiful Louisa". Starring Sadie Frost.
SOUL
SEARCHER
(2000) - 15-minute short directed
by Worcestershire filmmaker Neil Oserman. Man shot during a pub raid becomes
“the new Grim Reaper”. “Lead
actor Si Dovey enjoyed the opportunity to don spook-spotting shades and a black
trench coat to fight the walking dead. ‘The film has a lot of references to
THE MATRIX and MEN IN BLACK,’ Si says” (ref: www.netribution.co.uk).
Expanded to a feature in 2004.
THE SPLITTING (2005) - winner of the 'best sound' award at Margate's '2 Days Later' competition for short horror films. Directed by Tim Long.
SPRING HEELED JACK (2005) - 5-minute short directed by Geof Wolfenden. "Spring Heeled Jack patrols the roof tops of Victorian London looking for badly behaved children to steal their voices, never to be returned" - www.curzoncinemas.com
STAY WITH ME
(2006) - 5-minute horror short directed by London-based filmmaker Gabriel Amaral.
"As a prospective buyer is shown around a country manor, it becomes apparent
that whether he decides to buy or not he won't be allowed to leave" - Portobello
Film Festival.
STING OF DEATH (1921) - directed by Fred Paul. One of the 'Grand Guignol'
series of silent shorts.
THE STRANGE CASE OF MR.TODMORDEN (1935) - directed by Walter Tennyson.
Sleepwalker commits murder.
SUCKERED
(2000) – ref: ‘English Gothic’, second edition
THE SUICIDE CLUB (1914) - directed by Maurice Elvey. From the Robert
Louis Stevenson story.
THE SUMMONER (2006) - finalist in the 'most popular b-movie' category at Kent's annual '2 Days Later' short horror film contest. Directed by David Neve.
SUNDAY NIGHT ZOMBIES
(2000) - 11-minute short from Henry Burrows, director of FOILED.
SWEENEY TODD (1926) - directed by George Dewhurst. Reputedly a comedy
version of the familiar yarn.
TALES OF TERROR (2005) - winner of the 'Best Film' award at Margate's annual '2 Days Later' short horror filmmaking competition. Directed by Michael Stokes.
T'BATLEY FAUST
(1978) - animated short. Yorkshire industrialist sells soul to the Devil after
falling in love with a local girl.
TEENAGE JEKYLL AND HYDE (1963) - more of the work of the amateur Delta
Film Group.
THE TELL-TALE HEART (1953) - Stanley Baker stars in a version of the
Poe classic, directed by J.B.Williams.
THE TELL-TALE HEART
(2004) - 10-minute version of the Poe classic, directed by Stephanie Sinclaire.
Photographed by the legendary Jack Cardiff.
THE TEMPTER (1913) - directed by F.Martin Thornton and R.H.Callum. Harry
Agar Lyons (later to portray 'Fu Manchu' in the 1920s series of shorts) and
Alfred de Manby (as the Devil) star. "Satan tells stories illustrating drink,
deceit and greed" - British Film Catalogue.
TERMINAL (2006) - short directed by Dan Baker, shown at the 'Bang! Mayhem' short film showcase in Nottingham. Yuppie type is disturbed by visions of a female jogger whom he believes he will run down in his speeding car.
THE THIRD FEAR (2002) - 6-minute short directed by Adrian Smith, shown at the 2002 Festival Of Fantastic Films. “A young man is pursued by a member of the undead through the decaying streets of a Northern town. Finally he is cornered” – Festival Of Fantastic Films brochure.
THIS
OLD HOUSE
(2003) - 8-minute short directed
by Jack Lothian for the BBC’s ‘Tartan Smalls’ series. 3 young children spend
a night in a haunted house, are spooked by strange noises, apparitions in a
mirror, creepy-looking dolls, and the voice of the property itself…
THROUGH A VULTURE EYE (2006) - 3-minute short by Steven Sheil. "Faced with the all-seeing eye of his dying victim, a killer embarks on a gruesome course of action..." - Bradford Fantastic Films Weekend 2006 brochure.
THROUGH THE EYES OF A DEAD MAN WALKING (2006) - directed by Richard Chambers. Entrant in the annual Kent-based short horror film contest '2 Days Later'.
THYSELF (1990) - amateur short directed by Andy Morris; doppelganger tale a la THE MAN WHO HAUNTED HIMSELF. Ref: 'In The Flesh' fanzine #5.
A TINY PONY (2006) - directed by Tim Long. Entrant in the annual Kent-based short horror film contest '2 Days Later'.
TO HIS KNEES HE FELL (2004) - "horror story set on the Norfolk coastline" (Metro newspaper, 28/1/05). Directed by Andrew Brand, screened at 'Bang!' short film festival, Nottingham Broadway cinema, January 2005.
TO THE SHORE (2001) - paranormal investigator encounters strange electrical force. 9-minute internet short, available for download from www.ClergymanFilms.org
TOAST (2004) - animated short by William Garratt. Man attacked and completely charred to death by electric toaster while attempting to toast a piece of bread!
TORMENTOR RINGLEADER (2006) - 6-minute short with a CARRIE-like bullying victim killing off her tormentors in a high school setting. Ref: 'The Wicker Man' (poster at 'British Horror Films' message board and coincidentally the director of this very movie!)
TORN FLESH (2006) - one of the finalists at the 2006 London FrightFest's 'Cut!' short horror film competition. Directed by Martin Bennett.
TWELVE BABIES (2006) - a finalist in the 'best popular film' section of the '2 Days Later' short horror movie contest staged in Kent. Directed by A. Westwood & L. Undsy-Watson.
2 DAYS LATER (2003) - entry in the Margate-based '2 Days Later' short film competition, organised by Beeping Bush Productions and Close-Up Film magazine. Entrants had to prepare, shoot, and edit a short horror film in a mere 48 hours. Directed by Mick Etherton.
TWO DAYS LATER (2006) - finalist for 'best screenplay' at Kent's annual '2 Days Later' short horror film contest.
UNCANNY
EGYPT
(2001) - short directed by Ruth
Elizabeth, done in the style of a silent newsreel and featuring archaeologist
Professor Gatri being pursued by a mummy! Available for download at www.malleus.co.uk
THE
UNINVITED (1999)
- directed by Daniel Simpson. French student moves into flat which has
been empty since the previous occupant’s death, with terrifying consequences.
Carved African killer doll a la TRILOGY OF TERROR.
UNSIGNED (199?) - directed by Oliver Parker. Struggling artist is tempted
by mysterious figure who appears within his canvas, and who reveals himself
as a horned, spike-tailed devil offering a Faustian bargain.
UNWRITTEN (2006) - U.K. entry in the 'Film Club' website's 'World Short Horror Film Challenge' competition, with entrants invited to make a new horror short within 13 days.
THE VACANCY (1985)
- 30-minute short from Brian Davies’ Videas Films. Applicants for a job
at a local supermarket find themselves at the mercy of a masked psycho.
THE VAMPIRE (1913) - silent short, set in India, features a vampire-woman who can transform into a snake.
VAMPIRE (2006) - 4-minute horror short directed by Ian J. Simpson, screened in competition at the 2006 Festival of Fantastic Films.
VAMPIRES
- THE NORTH GATE (2002)
- 30-minute CD-Rom made by David Milner, starring Dee Monique De Sade
(self-styled ‘Kamp Vamp From Transylvania’) and focusing on the real-life case
of the Highgate Cemetery Vampire.
VAMPYR (1981) - screened as supporting film to THE HUNGER on its original
U.K. release. Man reading a copy of Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' begins to hallucinate;
at one point he crawls across the floor, with the camera angle suggesting the
count scuttling down the walls of his castle, and another scene has the book
itself flying in mid-air, its covers flapping like bat wings.
A VERY GRIMM FAIRYTALE
(2006) - One of the finalists at the London Frightfest 'Cut!' short horror film
competition. Directed by Jahari.
THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
(1996) - Shivilenco Pictures’ remake
of their earlier FACE AT THE WINDOW (1990).
THE VICTIM (2003)
- 27-minute Mini-DV short directed in Liverpool by Robert Ayer. Man abducted
by two serial killers informs them that he too is a murderer… (ref: Paul Higson)
VICTIMS (1979) - directed by Alan Blake. With Angela Morant and Warren
Clarke. Woman left at home all day while hubby is at the office, fantasizes
about making love to a handsome milkman, and about stabbing the same man to
death. Eventually, she knifes her husband - for real.
VIDEO NASTIES (1996) - another mail order, shot-on-video short from Paul
Shrimpton's 'Home Made Films'.
VIOLA (1967) - experimental short directed by Dunstan Pereira and Richard
Davis. Man believes that his dead wife has returned in the form of a cat that
pursues him. Music by Ravi Shankar.
VIRUS
(2002) - “brief but effective supernatural thriller, which could do
for e-mail what cult Japanese horror RING did for video” – London Film Festival.
6-minute short directed by Simon Hynd.
THE
VISITOR (2002)
- “Are you brave enough?” – tagline. 11-minute short about woman whose
recurring visions of a ghost appearing in her kitchen seem to suggest something
ominous is about to happen. Directed by Stephen Hughes.
VOICE FROM THE DEAD (1921) - written and directed by Fred Paul, from
the 'Grand Guignol' series.
VOODOO DOLL
(2004) - 15-minute short directed by Mhairi Brown. Ref: Paul Higson - "a girl
away at boarding school, looking for friends in the wrong place… through a ouija
board".
THE VOYAGE OF THE 'ARCTIC' (1903) - directed by Walter R.Booth. Produced
by Robert Paul, and inspired by the adventure epics already filmed in France
by Melies. The crew of the Arctic, bound for the North Pole, encounter a sea
serpent, the Queen Of The North Pole, and an evil giant (formed from the Aurora
Borealis) who can freeze with his breath, has impish henchmen made from ice,
and who bites the head off one of the sailors!
THE WAGES OF SIN (1998) - Tarantino-inspired amateur short, featuring
a series of gangland hits - turns supernatural for the climax as gangster's
victims return from the dead to take revenge.
WEIRDO
IN THE WOODS (1991)
- directed by Andrew Harrison. Escaped mental patient with an impressive
array of weapons murders four men in a local forest. The title says it all in
this enthusiastic 21-minute amateur production from the makers of SON OF MICHAEL
MYERS and ZOMBIE GENOCIDE.
WET AND DRY (1998) - directed by John McKay. Female Egyptian mummy living
in modern-day London begins to disintegrate and so seeks a solution to her problem.
When the local chemist can't help, she resorts to ancient ritual methods - at
the expense of a plastic surgeon's life! Neat little comedy.
WHAT ABOUT THE BODIES (2003) - directed by Simon Ellis. Screened at 'Bang! Mayhem' short film showcase in Nottingham, in a 'promo' version. Expanded? Set to a pulsating techno score, this tells the entirely visual tale of a man attempting to bury his wife's body in a remote location, but encountering another spade-wielding killer with the same idea.
WHAT ARE YOU DOING
HERE (2006) - U.K. entry in the 'Film Club' website's 'World Short Horror
Film Challenge' competition, with entrants invited to make a new horror short
within 13 days.
THE WHEEL OF DEATH (1916) - directed by A.E.Coleby. "Blackmailer kidnaps
clubman's wife and traps detective in mad professor's torture chamber" - British
Film Catalogue.
WICKERMAN (1996) - 10-minute
horror short from Cat N Cage Pictures
WINGS OF DEATH (1985) - directed by Nichola Bruce and Michael Coulson.
A Palace Pictures production - heroin addict attempts to recall his life before
drugs, but is affected by increasingly violent hallucinations and eventually
appears to kill himself. A 'just say no' polemic which draws on 1980s horror
film imagery for much of its content.
WITCH'S SPRING (2005) - 5-minute horror short involving internet dating and witchcraft; directed by Brian Barnes, starring Gillian MacGregor and Tom Wontner. Filmed for the 2004 'London 24 Hour Film Challenge', and also included as a segment of the U.S. dvd anthology LOVECRACKED! THE MOVIE.
WITHIN THE WOODS (1991) - man is chased through a forest by an axe-wielding lunatic. Amateur short made by a group of Brighton-based filmmakers; a finalist in the Dark Side magazine 'Opportunity Shocks' competition (won by Alex Chandon's BAD KARMA).
THE WOLFMAN (1999) - animated short directed by Tim Hope. Scientist/astronomer gazes at the moon through telescope, turns into wolf.
X-MASS (2005) - 25-minute short directed by Scott Flockhart. Boy's dog dies; the boy is given a book of spells aby his aunt as an Xmas present and attempts to revive the mutt, but instead accidentally brings back his dead Uncle Ted as a zombie...
YATES REVULSION (200?)
- ref: The Film Centre website. Directed by Steven Yates. "Loose remake of
Polanski's REPULSION"
THE YELLOW FACE (1921) - directed by Maurice Elvey. Silent 'Sherlock Holmes' mystery-horror about a cottage inhabited by a creature with a yellow face.
ZOMBIE (1997) - “Other ingredients that make this film so damn cool is the fact that our zombie is so well dressed and wears the latest trainers” - Bumstead Productions website. Video short, made when the Bumstead team were just 13 years old!
ZOMBIE HUNTERS (2006) - directed by Natalie Pledger. Entrant in the annual Kent-based short horror film contest '2 Days Later'.
ZOMBIES IN THE WOOD
(2004) - shot in Milton Keynes, this was named 'best film' at the '2 Days Later'
short horror film competition staged by 'Close-Up' magazine. Directed by Jason
Impey.