Horror Shorts

Horror Shorts

5 Episodes

Fear comes in all forms in this selection of dread-inducing shorts. Featuring unsettling early works by masters of menace like David Lynch (THE ALPHABET) and Guillermo del Toro (GEOMETRIA) as well as innovative contemporary films that use horror to confront issues such as racism (HAIR WOLF), these macabre miniatures may only last minutes, but they will haunt your psyche for much longer.

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Horror Shorts
  • The Alphabet

    Episode 1

    Directed by David Lynch • 1968 • United States

    This experimental short film presents a sick woman's nightmare involving living representations of the alphabet.

  • Geometria

    Episode 2

    Directed by Guillermo del Toro • 1987 • Mexico

    This 1987 short horror film by Guillermo del Toro has been personally reworked by the director.

  • Swallowed

    Episode 3

    Directed by Lily Baldwin • 2016 • United States

    A young mother’s repressed desires erupt in a shocking moment of catharsis in this unsettlingly visceral body-horror nightmare. Lily Baldwin adapts a dream by Daniel Patrick Carbone.

  • Hair Wolf

    Episode 4

    Directed by Mariama Diallo • 2018 • United States
    Starring Kara Young, Taliah Webster, Madeline Weinstein

    She’s white and she wants dreads . . . The staff of a Black hair salon in Brooklyn fend off a terrifying new monster: white women intent on literally sucking the lifeblood from Black culture.

  • White Echo

    Episode 5

    Directed by Chloë Sevigny • 2019 • United States
    Starring Hailey Gates, Eleonore Hendricks, Kate Lyn Sheil

    Five women, a ouija board, and a house with a dark secret: Chloë Sevigny imbues this atmospherically enigmatic ghost story with a bracing feminist jolt.