Best Horror Short Films (Chandler International Film Festival)

Beck and Call

Directed by: Dustin Ross

Run Time: 29 minutes 23 seconds, United States

Premiere status: US Premiere

A serial killer cop with an alter ego has to play twisted games to get back the corpse of his most recent victim, before someone else finds her, but the games will take him on a mind bending journey.

Bad Omen

Directed by: Connor Thomas

Run Time: 10 minutes 20 seconds, United States

Premiere status: Arizona Premiere

In the early 1800s, the inhabitants of a puritanical Tennessee farming village are plagued by mysterious disappearances that coincide with every full moon. The superstitious town folk are quick to suspect the newest resident, Christy, a young school teacher from New York. When Christy is invited to the home of a troubled student, suspicions turn to accusations - and accusations lead to a dark supernatural revelation that will shake the town to its core.

The Stolen Future

Directed by: Vedd V Rawtaani

Run Time: 18 minutes 00 seconds, India

Premiere status: World Premiere

On a stormy night, Myra, drunk and distraught, hits what appears to be a little girl on an empty road. But there’s no body, only memories of a past crime she thought was buried. Drawn into an abandoned hostel, Myra encounters a mechanic who isn’t who he seems, and a series of spectral figures: a teenager, a middle-aged woman, and an old lady in white. Together they reveal the truth: she once killed a child and hid the body, and these are the ghosts of her stolen future. Tormented by the ghosts and hunted by sewn-mouthed revenants, Myra is forced into the same fridge where she once left her victim to die. And the ‘mechanic’, who locks her in the fridge, turns out to be the brother of the girl Myra killed. A girl whose revenge is still incomplete. This supernatural horror short explores how unpunished crimes against children linger, not only as ghosts but as stolen possibilities, haunting both the guilty and the society that ignored them.

Harvester

Directed by: Eric Porta

Run Time: 7 minutes 11 seconds, Canada

Premiere status: Arizona Premiere

Footage is recovered from the camcorder of three friends headed for a camping trip who rolled into a nightmare that they never saw coming.

Up North

Directed by: Joseph Salvatore DiBartolo, Ryan Luckhardt

Run Time: 20 minutes 21 seconds, United States

Premiere status: World Premiere

While on a couples’ camping trip in a remote wilderness area, one member of the group suspects they’re being followed.

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