The Overlook Film Festival, held in New Orleans earlier this month, didn’t simply cast looming shadows with its feature film selection. The festival also offered bite-sized terror with an array of short films that brought a sense of unease to the Big Easy.
Of course, short films have become the lifeblood of the horror industry and blockbuster filmmakers like Fede Alvarez and David Sandberg made names for themselves in that medium. Because of the accessibility of hosting sites like YouTube and Vimeo, short films, and the filmmakers behind them, have developed increasingly loyal fanbases, with viewers going back through the films to look for answers or pieces of lore, and make entire Reddit threads dedicated to seven-minute works. Studios are catching onto this trend more quickly than they ever have before. Many of the filmmakers behind some of horror’s most recent hits, and this year’s most anticipated films,
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