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I like the way she doesn't appear to be haunting him in a sense of revenge or anger or anything - she seems unaware that she is dead, and he's racked with the guilt of knowing she is.
I think that, this whole short film represents 'Hell'. Not the firey hell we imagine, the one where we picture flames and pitch forks, rather Benjamin's own personal hell. If you notice, you can see that the news had been on a loop, as well as the music, even his wife had been cutting the apple on a loop. The telephone call, the tone of the anchor, the voice of the police officer and even his wife had the same monotonous tone and raspy voice. The idea of none blaming him, when he was the one responsible for his wife's death, is his hell. The guilt, the pain and the longing was reflected in every word spoken, every glance. The colour palette was amazing as well 💯
@@stephaniereach105 grow up? Because they didn't like something as much as you did? I think the one needing to grow up is the person not liking someone having a different taste to you. We are not all the same and can like things that others don't and vice versa. Why is that such a problem to people?
@@stephaniereach105Imao you still didn't answer her question. Why do people who tend to have a different taste than u, should grow up? That doesn't make any sense lol.
I’ll be honest, it made me cry. So beautifully sad. Sad, but that they could somehow still be together. And yet he is responsible for the absolute horror. An amazing movie. So well done.
Evelyn's actress really nailed this one. The way she defaults to a satisfied warm smile is so unsettling, it's like her humanity is barely hanging on and just simply sticks to mannerisms, or rather giving the idea that she is acting out in the way she thinks she should if alive. Whether she was a manifestation of Ben's guilt or her restless spirit, it seemed clear that Evelyn was such a loving wife, and it was eating away at Ben. Not gonna lie, was genuinely expecting her to go full vengeance at 12:43
Love your comment. I think it's best she didn't kill him :), most horror movies out there would end that way. I think we saw the more fitting ending, with her presence being a constant reminder of what he did, so that wil drive him insane. I could see he was approaching an almost catatonic state while talking to her, he wasn't even blinking! Death would be too easy andtoo simple, and I think it wouldn't fit Evelyn's character by the few mins we saw her. With the interaction they had, I can safely assume he was handed a fate worse than death itself and those are always the scariest ones!
There are so many concepts that really work in this. I love the surrealness of a news anchor directly addressing the person watching the newscast, that's always been a top scare for me (for reference I loved how they did this in The Game, even if it's not a horror film.). And the acting was truly exceptional in this one, the main actor's expressions do most of the story telling. Every shot was perfectly set, from the close-ups to the panning shots. Truly, amazing work. This is one of my favorite indie horror shorts I've seen.
Brilliantly rolled! It represents that desired, dreamed upon, twilight stage… that many accidental perpetrators, and others not too accidental, think could reset things back to normal... as if nothing ever happened.
I’ll tell you from one horror director to another, you got everything you wanted out of making this. The twist at the door conversation with the officer gave me such chills... everything was so well done, hats off to the team!
Thank you so much - it really means a lot!! :) I took some time to check out your channel and, I have to say, bravo! You have a truly inspiring collection of great shorts and I look forward to seeing more of your awesome work in the future. Oh, and I especially love getting a chance to peek behind the scenes, as well... very cool.
Loved the sparcity of verbiage. The male protagonist showed a lot of internal work.... The completion between guilt and duty ... The voice at the door (but she told him she put his dinner in the fridge... Pie for dessert?), the imagined phone call ( "policeman" never said it was the police dept). All the small points...... Bravo!
A taut, tense and beautifully shot film that balances the genuine dread of real-world guilt with the slow-burn horror of inner madness. It's like if Dali and Renoir made a film together. The surrealistic-laced realism through which "Into the Night" is shot gives it a rare quality: A film that has the ability to transfix and genuinely entertain at the same time. Director Chris Goldade creates an unsettling, dream-like milieu with Kubrickian close-ups and wide, lingering shots that effectively up the ante without feeling forced or cheesy. The acting is excellent, especially from Elysia Rotaru who turns in a performance of delicious contradictions -- delicate yet sharp-edged, deliberate yet unbothered, alluring -- and yet still somehow haunting as all get out. Brava. Overall, an outstanding film with much to recommend it. 4.3/5.
Love this short! You can tell the guy is going through a mix of emotions about what he’s done.. You can tell he feels guilt, yet trying to justify his horrible decision to leave the woman for dead on the road. His subconscious is projecting out to him via the man on the phone and the newsman and you can see the those range of emotions on display by what those characters are telling him. Then his subconscious projects his dead wife. At this point he starts to disassociate and refused to come to terms with what he’s done. His dead wife asks him who was at the door and what they wanted, and he said he could not remember. She passively aggressively responds by saying, “it’ll come back to you” or responds with “hm” when he doesn’t give the answer he’s supposed to. Her tone shows that she’s angry b/c she wants him to admit what’s he’s done but he doesn’t. You can feel and hear her anger with every slicing of the apple. Nice job
Dans la vie, il est préférable d'assumer ses actes, involontaires ou non. Il n'y a qu'en se regardant en face et en acceptant qu'on a une chance de s'en sortir, car la culpabilité corrode l'esprit tel un vieux vélo laissé dehors à l'abandon, rouillé par le temps. C'est tordu comme histoire, mais intelligent. Bravo et merci.
This is what I would definitely call sophisticated horror. So much story telling packed into a short. I loved the tv and phone scenes. He definitely made that call, so I'm wondering who did he talk to? A true but ominous police officer who suggested he should remain quiet, or was it his mind projecting into that call and he heard what he wanted to hear, or did he talk to a dark entity? The same applies for the tv (although in there it's clearer that the real anchorman wouldnt have said that). This must be what a nervous, tortured and guilty individual who just commited murder (by accident?) must go through. The voice on the phone sounded so dark and said all these horrible things in such a casual and dismissive manner that it truly gave me the chills. Very unsettling scene. Fantastic work, this is definitely going to stay with me.
I think the person on the phone and the anchorman was his wife to protect him from being charged. His wife gave him illusion to convey the message to him. Until the policeman showed to gave him the answer.
I think it was a dark entity as you put it, maybe now attached to Evelyn. Her presence is disturbing but still a good presence since she loved him, but now Ben is also surrounded by a dark presence that knows what he did! (that's why I think there are two presences in the house). The phone call interaction is so well done. Funny enough, I noticed they don't mention in the Cast who was that mysterious caller(dark entity) Ben was talking to. It definitely wasn't any of the other male actors, their voices are very different.
A bit different from how I understood it: He did call 911. The reason he received such a strange answer and even the news bulletin acted strange is because he also died in the crash, and is perceiving a sort of purgatory before he figures it out. I might be wrong as he doesn't appear bloodied, but that may be because he isn't aware he's dead and from his perception everything's normal.
@@Clandestine_Synergy To me i sounded like his own voice, meaning either he never actually dialed he number, and heard his own thoughts or as you suggest a dark presence who enjoys when people sin.
I was watching a marathon of short horror films in UA-cam... almost all were crap... even so called "award winning".. BUT this film is fantastic, very well made, good script & acting.. Congrats & Thanks.💯
This is one of the best short horror films i have seen on UA-cam. And believe me, i have seen loads. Very well done. No need for crappy jump scares when you can tell a story like this one.
Goodness, I must have watched this short like ten times now lol. I always keep finding some new details hidden on every watch thus I want to commend you for your attention to detail. For example, with the dead wife, every time she moves you can hear subtle flesh/muscle sounds (that's what moving the limbs of a decaying corpse must sound like) and the more she speaks, you hear a very subtle ghostly reverberation/whisper of her voice (you don't hear that with Ben, it only happens with her the more she speaks). I think my favorite is the concept that her spirit is trapped and physically affecting things around her and I think this is because she was killed so suddenly -she doesn't know she is dead, but her subconsciousness knows she is, as shown when Ben asks her how was her ride. She even unknowingly hums the song that was playing in Ben's truck during the accident -the last discernible thing she heard before her death. Her apparition is still trying to carry forward what she was meant to do after coming back from her ride picking up groceries. She is trying to do an apple pie ('trying' being the keyword here) but the apple(s) she is cutting depicts this task will go nowhere. She manages to slice the apple a few times, but it doesn't matter because the apple goes back to being whole, and she keeps slicing and slicing, she thinks she is advancing on her endeavour but that isn't the case. Her ghost is affecting the space and time around her, making things seem somehow normal but truly turning everything onto an uncanny valley -that slicing is terrifying, it sounds like flesh being guillotined. The detail about the apple slicing going nowhere was truly brilliant and deeply unsettling (love that was the last shot btw). It reminded me of Kubrick's The Shining (the carpet that suddenly switches directions in the spot Danny was playing at, and the hotel's office that has a window in the back when in truth it shouldn't, subtly showing things are not right at the hotel). I imagine her disappearing and appearing throughout different times in her house, always trying to carry forward a task that will get her nowhere (her thinking she is doing it, thinking she is alive) and Ben will be there to witness it all. And the face of Ben at the end, uff that's the face of a man who is clearly going to go gradually insane. This is not a hopeful ending for them, but the beginning of a nightmare.
It’s also interesting that the exact scenes shown in the news occur twice, once when he’s on the phone and again as he’s watching. I’m thinking the first run is the real report, the second time being part of the uncanny valley feel You mentioned. I definitely get that creepy feel that the news report looped right as Ben starts to pay attention to the TV. I didn’t catch this til my second watch, the part of the report with the people on the scene plays twice and that little bit that plays between switching from a scene to the reporter also occurs which is what really makes me think the first one was the true news, and the second either in his mind or paranormal interference. Amazing film for sure
I absolutely loved your synopsis!!! You caught two things, that completely went over my head! The song she was humming, being the song that was playing from her husband’s car when he hit her, and the apple never actually getting sliced!! You have amazing attention to detail!!! I used to, but as I get older, I am losing that ability 😂
@@beth-annrock237 thank you so much, that's very kind of you! That's all thanks to my several rewatches of this short 😆 (and passion for horror film). I really enjoyed finding and dissecting the hidden details of this short -which made its story so much more eerie and dark when they were pieced together. And there are many more that, at this point, I feel I could write a short analysis essay about this film lol.
He s seriously battling between his guilt/conscience (wishing to come forward for what he did) and his inner darkness (which is projecting into the real world, trying to convince himself it wasnt his fault it happened). I also think it could be a conversation with evil itself, trying to squash down his human conscience and tempting him to remain silent (which is the easiest path for him to take).
I've been crawling down a massive rabbit hole with these shorts. ALTER is my go to channel on here, but man it's so much fun to discover so much under the radar material from so many great filmmakers.
The moment the police officer said who the woman was.... CHILLING!! Though the ending could be considered kinda heartwarming if you take it as a supernatural twist.
Heartwarming? Possibly? But it's terrifying because you don't know if she's aware you killed her or is completely oblivious to it. If she knows that means she's haunting you to torture you. If she doesn't know, will she eventually find out and lash out?
I felt it's love story in horror story. The way police said to not say anyone about the accident. I felt that his wife is protecting him even after her death since he is already guilty of what he did. Her soul is protecting him❤️
Whoever did the visual effects and/or lighting for this is a stunner. I particularly liked the shot where you see the husband's eyes reflecting the police lights. The eye switch for Evelyn is awesome too. Well done to the entire team. I think the background music is now going to haunt me every time I try to meditate with my Tibetan prayer bowl! ;)
I always find myself coming back to this film. It reminds me of a monologue from The Haunting Of Hill House. "Fear and guilt are sisters. I knew a man once who knew those sisters well. They kissed his eyelids as he slept, and every morning, he went just a little more mad. So he built a wall to keep it all outside, but those two sisters, they were in there with him. Even there. That silly man thought his wall would keep them out, but there was just enough room for him...and them. So he was trapped behind that wall. Afraid and guilty. And his voice left him, and he scratched and whimpered, and his fingers were shredded on his own bricks until his scratches just sounded like... Rats in a wall. He felt small. So small. But that was his dream. And when he woke up, he was tall. So tall. For always. Fear and guilt are sisters, Theodora. But when you wake up, they'll leave you be. For always."
I’ve been binge watching short horror films for the past week and I have to admit this one is the best so far. It wasn’t scary as in “omg I won’t sleep tonight” (which btw is the kind of shorts I’d like to find so feel free to recommend me some) but the twist and the performance were just so good imo, loved it
So many comments preceding mine sum up the film and give it the abundant praise it deserves. I really don't know what to say beyond my own kudos. Best short film I've seen in years.
Everybody else in the comments gave praise way better than I ever could. All I can add is this: congratulations on an exceptional short film! And thank you for allowing us to see it.
People are saying that she doesn't know that she's dead, but I think she does. She has this slight sarcastic and passive aggressive tone when talking to him, as if she's expecting him to confess so she can move on. She also seems to be bringing that knife down in anger when chopping the apple. She definitely knows that she's dead on some level and knows that he caused it.
I think this is the feeling of any human or maybe 90% of all human, when they kill another human either by accident or intentionally. The Guilt is too overwhelming that it can turn into a nightmare.
I've watched maybe close to a hundred of shorts in the past month, but this one is the most well-thought out, creepiest and (at the end) saddest of them all. This is my number one. If I was trying to hook someone on these shorts, this would the sample.
This was an amazing short. Kept wondering who he got on the phone to notify about the accident, the newsman seemed to speak to him, and you knew his dead wife was in the house. Well done indeed.
Loved it. All differences aside, the mix of psychological and supernatural horror, as well as the emphasis on guilt honestly made me think of Silent Hill 2. I was half expecting Evelyn to come back with "you were always so forgetful" at 12:02. Amazing piece.
“Remember that time in the hotel?” I was so thinking this could make for a great scene if this were a Silent Hill 2 scene with Mary/Maria fucking with James’ guilt. This had “dead wife” permeating throughout the whole film
I have recent been addicted to watching horror film shorts. This is definitely one of my favorite. I did pick up on the fact early on that it was his wife he hit, but that didn’t make this any less enjoyable. After reading the comments I’m going to rewatch it a couple more times to look for those little details I missed
Okay I’m not big on Western horror films but that was something. I’ll definitely say the ability to not shove cheap scares or over-explain everything is perfect. This is what horror was trying to go for, a more subtle, niche nice set piece. It works well in hand with what is written, the execution of this short film further proves that there’s something wrong but the audience can quite put their finger on it until the revelation, speaking of which that was also pretty well established, having an officer explain it made it real nice and simple, nothing to over-explain or dumb down for the audience. This is a prime example of good storytelling and honestly it subtly creeps into your subconscious and makes you think.
This short is better than the majority of horror i have found lately. I have loved horror since i was a kid. The sounds, the acting, the direction, color pallette, all the subtle scares. This could be a longer movie on the big screen.
I love this movie! I loved how hubby's guilt was messing with him, and how the officer was looking like "Yeah Buddy, I know it was u?" Most of all I loved how Elysia portrayed her character? The way her eyes had glazed over as if something was taken over her but she heard his voice and it went away? Goodness gracious, I thought she was about to go Walking Dead, and whoop his tail? Also the way that apple sounded all crisp made me go get one of my "Red & Delicious" apples. This is perfection!!!!
Considering that I don't believe that the dead can interact with the living under any circumstances (although certain entities can pretend to be the people who died), I interpret the plot as the installation of madness in the poor protagonist's mind. It was too much for him. Most likely he will live in two realities from now on. Real life (I don't know what he works for, but he'll have to interact with people, work, pay bills and receive condolences from other people) and another one where he'll always come home and have Evelyn's "company" . Those movies that explore real, possible horror are the most disturbing. In this case, it was very well executed, well directed, and the performances convince us. I liked very much.
"Considering that I don't believe that the dead can interact with the living under any circumstances" ....Then literally "but these are the circumstances in which the dead interact with the living"😂😂
No she is a ghost as per my theory because hubby would not have heard his wife's voice when he was in the washroom because he was unaware of the fact that he ran over his own wife until the cop informed him about his wife ...that make sense
I feel like the big movie companies easily get money privilege for editing, special effects, anything they need, but this editor really clearly had the skill of an old Hollywood professional, mixed with the incredible acting and director skills this was a treat to be spooked by!!
You all are so unbelievably talented, this channel and its contributors of actors, writers, directors, and crew deserve all accolades, truly haunting sh!t!!
What a twist at the end! I wasn't expecting that. And I love the impact made with very little, "simple" stuff that it turns out to be truly horrifying. It's waaay better than some horror movies out there.
Very very good. A terror tale like Poe's on guilty and ghosts. Very well made, good interpretations. Sound like a Silent Hill plot in some ways. Congrats
Bravo! A frightening take on a moral tale. Excellent concept, acting, camera work ,cinematography and over all production. Thank you. Hope to see more from y'all
Honestly I was just sad about this film.....it was so sweet how she absolutely didn't blame her husband, her 'ghost' or whatever just came back because she wanted him not to be alone
Ooh I really liked this!! As a big horror fan, this really hit all the nails on the proverbial head! The camera angles and the tone of the piece was very unsettling. You experience so many emotions in such a short piece. Love it, just discovered, but shall be watching more!
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So good! Well done!
It was actually pretty gud. I’mma say that
no jump scare just pure unadulterated primal horror, love it!
This is definitely scary. Realistic and psychologically numbing. I really enjoyed this, great work!
Очень понравилось , интересно смотреть , спасибо!
I like the way she doesn't appear to be haunting him in a sense of revenge or anger or anything - she seems unaware that she is dead, and he's racked with the guilt of knowing she is.
Возможно он тоже не выжил.
@@optimusprime9414I Like that idea, A Lot! 🍻💯
@@optimusprime9414and officer is dead as well. And we are dead. Everything is dead.
@@vadimc2144они все в чистилище.
But he doesn't look like he's caring lmao
Never has slicing an apple sounded so much like slaughter.
Loved it
Ikr?😮
I think that, this whole short film represents 'Hell'. Not the firey hell we imagine, the one where we picture flames and pitch forks, rather Benjamin's own personal hell. If you notice, you can see that the news had been on a loop, as well as the music, even his wife had been cutting the apple on a loop. The telephone call, the tone of the anchor, the voice of the police officer and even his wife had the same monotonous tone and raspy voice. The idea of none blaming him, when he was the one responsible for his wife's death, is his hell.
The guilt, the pain and the longing was reflected in every word spoken, every glance. The colour palette was amazing as well 💯
Being stuck in the moment in trauma and shock. Never taking acceptance or responsibility
Thank you so much. I worked really hard on the overall look and feel of the film, I am glad it carried through.
For real, it was so so good! Best horror short I've seen in a while.
As Stephen King says often:
Hell Is Repetition.
I agree & this was 💯 his Hell.
Great Short & also Comment!! 🍻
Love this! Thank you ❤
The way she kept cutting the same apple over and over.. The way her eye's color changed from dead to alive.. Everything was so creepy. Loved it.
Too dark
@@stephaniereach105 grow up? Because they didn't like something as much as you did? I think the one needing to grow up is the person not liking someone having a different taste to you. We are not all the same and can like things that others don't and vice versa. Why is that such a problem to people?
@michellemain4061 dude, this was a month ago. Get over it.
@@stephaniereach105Imao you still didn't answer her question. Why do people who tend to have a different taste than u, should grow up? That doesn't make any sense lol.
@@alexandermuller950 Comment wasn´t about taste ----¨Too dark¨ doesn´t make any sense. It´s a HORROR film. It´s like saying a comedy was too funny.
really liked how they mirrored one anothers lies with the "fine, just fine" lines.
The sound of the tight movements she makes, the stiffness of death and rigor mortis. Its ghastly! I like this film.
Yesssdd
I’ll be honest, it made me cry. So beautifully sad. Sad, but that they could somehow still be together. And yet he is responsible for the absolute horror. An amazing movie. So well done.
12:46 her eyes changing from dead to alive. this was an incredibly subtle detail and I love so much that you put the effort into doing that ❤
Evelyn's actress really nailed this one. The way she defaults to a satisfied warm smile is so unsettling, it's like her humanity is barely hanging on and just simply sticks to mannerisms, or rather giving the idea that she is acting out in the way she thinks she should if alive. Whether she was a manifestation of Ben's guilt or her restless spirit, it seemed clear that Evelyn was such a loving wife, and it was eating away at Ben. Not gonna lie, was genuinely expecting her to go full vengeance at 12:43
Everyone thinks she was the best wife/ghost a man could ask for!😇
Love your comment. I think it's best she didn't kill him :), most horror movies out there would end that way. I think we saw the more fitting ending, with her presence being a constant reminder of what he did, so that wil drive him insane. I could see he was approaching an almost catatonic state while talking to her, he wasn't even blinking! Death would be too easy andtoo simple, and I think it wouldn't fit Evelyn's character by the few mins we saw her. With the interaction they had, I can safely assume he was handed a fate worse than death itself and those are always the scariest ones!
It was fine just fine
She was the Ghostess with Mostest.
There are so many concepts that really work in this. I love the surrealness of a news anchor directly addressing the person watching the newscast, that's always been a top scare for me (for reference I loved how they did this in The Game, even if it's not a horror film.). And the acting was truly exceptional in this one, the main actor's expressions do most of the story telling. Every shot was perfectly set, from the close-ups to the panning shots. Truly, amazing work. This is one of my favorite indie horror shorts I've seen.
Give the director the rights to a Silent Hill game! This is perfection!
If you hear vintage music in a horror film, you know it will be worth watching.
Well, I sure know it will be scary!
Always reminds me of the end of The Shing ... Midnight, the stars and you..................
What exactly is vintage music?
Brilliantly rolled! It represents that desired, dreamed upon, twilight stage… that many accidental perpetrators, and others not too accidental, think could reset things back to normal... as if nothing ever happened.
I’ll tell you from one horror director to another, you got everything you wanted out of making this. The twist at the door conversation with the officer gave me such chills... everything was so well done, hats off to the team!
Thank you so much - it really means a lot!! :) I took some time to check out your channel and, I have to say, bravo! You have a truly inspiring collection of great shorts and I look forward to seeing more of your awesome work in the future. Oh, and I especially love getting a chance to peek behind the scenes, as well... very cool.
Im trying to watch the whole movie 🍿 🥰🥰
I watched it twice. Excellent video and excellent story@@pimpfa_.nuggetpimpfa_.nugg9284
I could tell u about my nightmare wich are a reaaaaallĺ horror'story, then u Will make a horror movie
Nice to see you here, love your stuff.
I like this spin on guilt, shame and haunting.
Loved the sparcity of verbiage. The male protagonist showed a lot of internal work.... The completion between guilt and duty ... The voice at the door (but she told him she put his dinner in the fridge... Pie for dessert?), the imagined phone call ( "policeman" never said it was the police dept). All the small points...... Bravo!
So haunting and beautiful, and the plot twists are brilliant, this remind me "Doctor Sleep", beautiful! Greetings from Venezuela
Great acting from the two leads. Awesome makeup on Evelyn. And the cinematography and sound design are excellent.
A taut, tense and beautifully shot film that balances the genuine dread of real-world guilt with the slow-burn horror of inner madness. It's like if Dali and Renoir made a film together. The surrealistic-laced realism through which "Into the Night" is shot gives it a rare quality: A film that has the ability to transfix and genuinely entertain at the same time.
Director Chris Goldade creates an unsettling, dream-like milieu with Kubrickian close-ups and wide, lingering shots that effectively up the ante without feeling forced or cheesy.
The acting is excellent, especially from Elysia Rotaru who turns in a performance of delicious contradictions -- delicate yet sharp-edged, deliberate yet unbothered, alluring -- and yet still somehow haunting as all get out. Brava. Overall, an outstanding film with much to recommend it. 4.3/5.
Love this short! You can tell the guy is going through a mix of emotions about what he’s done.. You can tell he feels guilt, yet trying to justify his horrible decision to leave the woman for dead on the road. His subconscious is projecting out to him via the man on the phone and the newsman and you can see the those range of emotions on display by what those characters are telling him. Then his subconscious projects his dead wife. At this point he starts to disassociate and refused to come to terms with what he’s done. His dead wife asks him who was at the door and what they wanted, and he said he could not remember. She passively aggressively responds by saying, “it’ll come back to you” or responds with “hm” when he doesn’t give the answer he’s supposed to. Her tone shows that she’s angry b/c she wants him to admit what’s he’s done but he doesn’t. You can feel and hear her anger with every slicing of the apple. Nice job
Dans la vie, il est préférable d'assumer ses actes, involontaires ou non. Il n'y a qu'en se regardant en face et en acceptant qu'on a une chance de s'en sortir, car la culpabilité corrode l'esprit tel un vieux vélo laissé dehors à l'abandon, rouillé par le temps. C'est tordu comme histoire, mais intelligent. Bravo et merci.
Just the sound of his wife continually cutting through that same apple, over and over is chillingly haunting.
Yaa
Husband and wife perfectly paired in denial enjoying their last moments together before reality clicks back. Very sad.
The apple cut, It was so uncomfortably loud. I liked that tension point
This is what I would definitely call sophisticated horror. So much story telling packed into a short. I loved the tv and phone scenes. He definitely made that call, so I'm wondering who did he talk to? A true but ominous police officer who suggested he should remain quiet, or was it his mind projecting into that call and he heard what he wanted to hear, or did he talk to a dark entity? The same applies for the tv (although in there it's clearer that the real anchorman wouldnt have said that). This must be what a nervous, tortured and guilty individual who just commited murder (by accident?) must go through. The voice on the phone sounded so dark and said all these horrible things in such a casual and dismissive manner that it truly gave me the chills. Very unsettling scene. Fantastic work, this is definitely going to stay with me.
I think the person on the phone and the anchorman was his wife to protect him from being charged. His wife gave him illusion to convey the message to him. Until the policeman showed to gave him the answer.
I think it was a dark entity as you put it, maybe now attached to Evelyn. Her presence is disturbing but still a good presence since she loved him, but now Ben is also surrounded by a dark presence that knows what he did! (that's why I think there are two presences in the house). The phone call interaction is so well done. Funny enough, I noticed they don't mention in the Cast who was that mysterious caller(dark entity) Ben was talking to. It definitely wasn't any of the other male actors, their voices are very different.
A bit different from how I understood it: He did call 911. The reason he received such a strange answer and even the news bulletin acted strange is because he also died in the crash, and is perceiving a sort of purgatory before he figures it out. I might be wrong as he doesn't appear bloodied, but that may be because he isn't aware he's dead and from his perception everything's normal.
Maybe he was talking to deatb
@@Clandestine_Synergy To me i sounded like his own voice, meaning either he never actually dialed he number, and heard his own thoughts or as you suggest a dark presence who enjoys when people sin.
I was watching a marathon of short horror films in UA-cam... almost all were crap... even so called "award winning".. BUT this film is fantastic, very well made, good script & acting.. Congrats & Thanks.💯
Excellent, one of the best horror short films I have ever seen. It has some sort of magic like the old horror movies, the good ones.
This is one of the best short horror films i have seen on UA-cam. And believe me, i have seen loads.
Very well done. No need for crappy jump scares when you can tell a story like this one.
BRILLIANT! I love the homage to Lynch in the soundtrack.
Goodness, I must have watched this short like ten times now lol. I always keep finding some new details hidden on every watch thus I want to commend you for your attention to detail. For example, with the dead wife, every time she moves you can hear subtle flesh/muscle sounds (that's what moving the limbs of a decaying corpse must sound like) and the more she speaks, you hear a very subtle ghostly reverberation/whisper of her voice (you don't hear that with Ben, it only happens with her the more she speaks).
I think my favorite is the concept that her spirit is trapped and physically affecting things around her and I think this is because she was killed so suddenly -she doesn't know she is dead, but her subconsciousness knows she is, as shown when Ben asks her how was her ride. She even unknowingly hums the song that was playing in Ben's truck during the accident -the last discernible thing she heard before her death. Her apparition is still trying to carry forward what she was meant to do after coming back from her ride picking up groceries. She is trying to do an apple pie ('trying' being the keyword here) but the apple(s) she is cutting depicts this task will go nowhere.
She manages to slice the apple a few times, but it doesn't matter because the apple goes back to being whole, and she keeps slicing and slicing, she thinks she is advancing on her endeavour but that isn't the case. Her ghost is affecting the space and time around her, making things seem somehow normal but truly turning everything onto an uncanny valley -that slicing is terrifying, it sounds like flesh being guillotined. The detail about the apple slicing going nowhere was truly brilliant and deeply unsettling (love that was the last shot btw). It reminded me of Kubrick's The Shining (the carpet that suddenly switches directions in the spot Danny was playing at, and the hotel's office that has a window in the back when in truth it shouldn't, subtly showing things are not right at the hotel).
I imagine her disappearing and appearing throughout different times in her house, always trying to carry forward a task that will get her nowhere (her thinking she is doing it, thinking she is alive) and Ben will be there to witness it all.
And the face of Ben at the end, uff that's the face of a man who is clearly going to go gradually insane. This is not a hopeful ending for them, but the beginning of a nightmare.
It’s also interesting that the exact scenes shown in the news occur twice, once when he’s on the phone and again as he’s watching. I’m thinking the first run is the real report, the second time being part of the uncanny valley feel
You mentioned. I definitely get that creepy feel that the news report looped right as Ben starts to pay attention to the TV. I didn’t catch this til my second watch, the part of the report with the people on the scene plays twice and that little bit that plays between switching from a scene to the reporter also occurs which is what really makes me think the first one was the true news, and the second either in his mind or paranormal interference. Amazing film for sure
@@chasecarlson4900 definitely, I agree with you. I noticed the same on one of my rewatches 👍🏼. So many hidden interesting details.
Great points and the wife is humming the Platters hit My Prayer.(in the right key too ! )
I absolutely loved your synopsis!!! You caught two things, that completely went over my head! The song she was humming, being the song that was playing from her husband’s car when he hit her, and the apple never actually getting sliced!! You have amazing attention to detail!!! I used to, but as I get older, I am losing that ability 😂
@@beth-annrock237 thank you so much, that's very kind of you! That's all thanks to my several rewatches of this short 😆 (and passion for horror film). I really enjoyed finding and dissecting the hidden details of this short -which made its story so much more eerie and dark when they were pieced together. And there are many more that, at this point, I feel I could write a short analysis essay about this film lol.
He s seriously battling between his guilt/conscience (wishing to come forward for what he did) and his inner darkness (which is projecting into the real world, trying to convince himself it wasnt his fault it happened). I also think it could be a conversation with evil itself, trying to squash down his human conscience and tempting him to remain silent (which is the easiest path for him to take).
I've been crawling down a massive rabbit hole with these shorts. ALTER is my go to channel on here, but man it's so much fun to discover so much under the radar material from so many great filmmakers.
Alter is great. So many good shorts. Dust is also a good channel but it's more sci-fi shorts.
Same, I face planted myself down the rabbit hole xD
Same tho
Same here. It's addictive.
I prefer scream fest
The moment the police officer said who the woman was.... CHILLING!!
Though the ending could be considered kinda heartwarming if you take it as a supernatural twist.
Heartwarming? Possibly? But it's terrifying because you don't know if she's aware you killed her or is completely oblivious to it. If she knows that means she's haunting you to torture you. If she doesn't know, will she eventually find out and lash out?
Modern day Edgar Allen Poe. Well Done!!!
I felt it's love story in horror story. The way police said to not say anyone about the accident. I felt that his wife is protecting him even after her death since he is already guilty of what he did. Her soul is protecting him❤️
Excellent movie. Starts perfect, ends perfect, no fuckarounds, no cringe, just pure story, love it!
No wokeism
Whoever did the visual effects and/or lighting for this is a stunner. I particularly liked the shot where you see the husband's eyes reflecting the police lights. The eye switch for Evelyn is awesome too. Well done to the entire team. I think the background music is now going to haunt me every time I try to meditate with my Tibetan prayer bowl! ;)
This whole thing was amazing! And Elysia Rotaru was fantastic in her role!
I always find myself coming back to this film. It reminds me of a monologue from The Haunting Of Hill House.
"Fear and guilt are sisters. I knew a man once who knew those sisters well. They kissed his eyelids as he slept, and every morning, he went just a little more mad. So he built a wall to keep it all outside, but those two sisters, they were in there with him. Even there. That silly man thought his wall would keep them out, but there was just enough room for him...and them. So he was trapped behind that wall. Afraid and guilty. And his voice left him, and he scratched and whimpered, and his fingers were shredded on his own bricks until his scratches just sounded like... Rats in a wall. He felt small. So small. But that was his dream. And when he woke up, he was tall. So tall. For always. Fear and guilt are sisters, Theodora. But when you wake up, they'll leave you be. For always."
OhMyGosh! This is superior work! Excellent! Five stars!*****
That was fun! I really enjoyed it! I liked how the police lights lingered (whether intentional or not) it added a sense of stress to the situation.
The thing I liked the most about this film was that it did not end the way I would have expected it to.
This was really well done. I just love the lighting and the cinematography. So entertaining.
From all of Alter to Omelleto this is one of the best short horror movies I've seen! Loved it and amazing attention to small details 😍
Wow that was a plot twist right there! The phone call, the newscaster, the apple cutting all so spooky
what a masterpiece it was! It was an incredible work man❤
I’ve been binge watching short horror films for the past week and I have to admit this one is the best so far. It wasn’t scary as in “omg I won’t sleep tonight” (which btw is the kind of shorts I’d like to find so feel free to recommend me some) but the twist and the performance were just so good imo, loved it
Hello? and There's Someone At Your Door.
Those are 2 horror shorts I recommend
Eerie & dark…this well done short horror have a feel of the twilight zone series.i love it👍
I love it, the plot twist will sink in to you gradually while his having a conversation with the cop.
Bro, the sound of that apple being chopped so disturbing! Great short ...
What an amazing short. Better than most movies we get in theaters ! Congrats to everyone involved
So many comments preceding mine sum up the film and give it the abundant praise it deserves. I really don't know what to say beyond my own kudos. Best short film I've seen in years.
This is one of those 15 mins that stays with you for life. Brilliant!
The Pug abides. Pug is a tough critic, but Pug wants to congratulate the people who made this short. Really excellent work. Keep it up. Cheers!
Everybody else in the comments gave praise way better than I ever could. All I can add is this: congratulations on an exceptional short film! And thank you for allowing us to see it.
Look. A talking cat
@@visitante-pc5zc Not just a talking cat, a well mannered one as well.
The movie is absolutely superb, simply outstanding.
People are saying that she doesn't know that she's dead, but I think she does. She has this slight sarcastic and passive aggressive tone when talking to him, as if she's expecting him to confess so she can move on. She also seems to be bringing that knife down in anger when chopping the apple. She definitely knows that she's dead on some level and knows that he caused it.
I think this is the feeling of any human or maybe 90% of all human, when they kill another human either by accident or intentionally. The Guilt is too overwhelming that it can turn into a nightmare.
I've watched maybe close to a hundred of shorts in the past month, but this one is the most well-thought out, creepiest and (at the end) saddest of them all. This is my number one. If I was trying to hook someone on these shorts, this would the sample.
This was an amazing short. Kept wondering who he got on the phone to notify about the accident, the newsman seemed to speak to him, and you knew his dead wife was in the house. Well done indeed.
It’s definitely his voice on the phone call. Think he’s just talking to himself. But the newsman I guess same idea just different face.
I'm not always the biggest fans of these short horror stories, but this is one of the better ones I've seen. Well done!
the news reporter and cop on the phone, things like that give me chills. well done lol
Loved it. All differences aside, the mix of psychological and supernatural horror, as well as the emphasis on guilt honestly made me think of Silent Hill 2. I was half expecting Evelyn to come back with "you were always so forgetful" at 12:02. Amazing piece.
“Remember that time in the hotel?” I was so thinking this could make for a great scene if this were a Silent Hill 2 scene with Mary/Maria fucking with James’ guilt. This had “dead wife” permeating throughout the whole film
Silent Hill two is nothing short of a masterpiece. I could talk about it for hours but I'll leave it at that.
I have recent been addicted to watching horror film shorts. This is definitely one of my favorite. I did pick up on the fact early on that it was his wife he hit, but that didn’t make this any less enjoyable. After reading the comments I’m going to rewatch it a couple more times to look for those little details I missed
Okay I’m not big on Western horror films but that was something. I’ll definitely say the ability to not shove cheap scares or over-explain everything is perfect. This is what horror was trying to go for, a more subtle, niche nice set piece. It works well in hand with what is written, the execution of this short film further proves that there’s something wrong but the audience can quite put their finger on it until the revelation, speaking of which that was also pretty well established, having an officer explain it made it real nice and simple, nothing to over-explain or dumb down for the audience. This is a prime example of good storytelling and honestly it subtly creeps into your subconscious and makes you think.
This short is better than the majority of horror i have found lately. I have loved horror since i was a kid. The sounds, the acting, the direction, color pallette, all the subtle scares. This could be a longer movie on the big screen.
I love this movie! I loved how hubby's guilt was messing with him, and how the officer was looking like "Yeah Buddy, I know it was u?" Most of all I loved how Elysia portrayed her character? The way her eyes had glazed over as if something was taken over her but she heard his voice and it went away? Goodness gracious, I thought she was about to go Walking Dead, and whoop his tail? Also the way that apple sounded all crisp made me go get one of my "Red & Delicious" apples. This is perfection!!!!
Honestly this is a well made horror short. It was beautifully executed.
He’s apparently in denial that it was even his wife who he hit. He didn’t tell the 911 operator. He just said “I hit someone”.
Best short I've seen in a minute. The cop was hot when he showed up but his voice on the phone was so fucking terrifying.
Considering that I don't believe that the dead can interact with the living under any circumstances (although certain entities can pretend to be the people who died), I interpret the plot as the installation of madness in the poor protagonist's mind. It was too much for him. Most likely he will live in two realities from now on. Real life (I don't know what he works for, but he'll have to interact with people, work, pay bills and receive condolences from other people) and another one where he'll always come home and have Evelyn's "company" . Those movies that explore real, possible horror are the most disturbing. In this case, it was very well executed, well directed, and the performances convince us. I liked very much.
"Considering that I don't believe that the dead can interact with the living under any circumstances"
....Then literally "but these are the circumstances in which the dead interact with the living"😂😂
No she is a ghost as per my theory because hubby would not have heard his wife's voice when he was in the washroom because he was unaware of the fact that he ran over his own wife until the cop informed him about his wife ...that make sense
Слишком мало видел в жизни. Поэтому и не веришь.
I feel like the big movie companies easily get money privilege for editing, special effects, anything they need, but this editor really clearly had the skill of an old Hollywood professional, mixed with the incredible acting and director skills this was a treat to be spooked by!!
You all are so unbelievably talented, this channel and its contributors of actors, writers, directors, and crew deserve all accolades, truly haunting sh!t!!
This was a wonderful short film. I watched it multiple times to pick up anything I missed. The last scene with the apple cutting was so well done.
one way or another, every story is a love story. but this was a love story that was able to define both emotional and psychological horror
Creepy movie.
A lot better than the cheap jump scares I'm used to.
What a twist at the end! I wasn't expecting that. And I love the impact made with very little, "simple" stuff that it turns out to be truly horrifying. It's waaay better than some horror movies out there.
That’s what I love so much about Stephen King. He finds the horror in the ordinary. The man could make a toaster terrifying!
Very very good. A terror tale like Poe's on guilty and ghosts. Very well made, good interpretations. Sound like a Silent Hill plot in some ways. Congrats
I would say " Thanks for the ride lady"
Every time she cut the apple, I was expecting that she cut her fingers off...
This was unsettling, disturbing and creepy👌🏼
No silly jump scares, just story and atmosphere
Excellent
Bravo! A frightening take on a moral tale. Excellent concept, acting, camera work ,cinematography and over all production. Thank you. Hope to see more from y'all
thank you 🤗🤗🤗🤗
This was great,very creepy..and well acted.
This was just SO incredibly well-done, twisty and completely un-nerving
Keep up the excellent work!
This deserves so many more views! Excellence acting. Awesome story. Good jump scare. Eerie vibes. Love it!
Honestly I was just sad about this film.....it was so sweet how she absolutely didn't blame her husband, her 'ghost' or whatever just came back because she wanted him not to be alone
This is one of the better shorts have seen in a long, very intense, when a great twist at the end
He's in hell reliving the worst day of his life over and over again..
this is one of the best horror short i've ever seen, congratulations to everyone involved, fantastic job :D
Beautiful short... kept me on edge the whole time and the slicing sound just adds to the goosebumps - shudder -
I absolutely loved this. Gave me Twilight Zone vibes. Great film.
Yesss
Interesting story twist,spooky atmosphere and great actor play,one of most interesting short horror movie i watched recently
Ooh I really liked this!! As a big horror fan, this really hit all the nails on the proverbial head! The camera angles and the tone of the piece was very unsettling. You experience so many emotions in such a short piece. Love it, just discovered, but shall be watching more!
Finally!!!!!! I did not see that coming! Loved it.
Instantly got goose bumps and almost cried when the officer said "it was your wife" phenomenal 🔥🔥🔥
Amazingly creepy !! Very well done !
that was a really well-made film ngl like i loved everything about it: the creepy talking, the dialog, the setting, etc
Sophisticated horror.
Perfect.
I love this.
Do more.
Excellent film 👏🏻