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Hello, everyone! We’re back with the final installment of our Sunday Shorts series that we’ve been running as part of Daily Dead’s 2022 Indie Horror Month celebration. For today’s selection of quick bites of fright, we have a fun assortment of horror shorts on tap, including Lydie Manzano’s Elles, Rancour by Dane Hallett, Dalton Sherrill’s Don’t Press Record, and Peek A Boo from Alex Magaña. And if you’ve missed any of our previous Sunday Shorts installments, you can catch up with them Here).

Enjoy!

Elles (Directed by Lydie Manzano)

Synopsis: In a world devastated by a virus, Alex tries as best he can to mourn his wife...

Rancour (Directed by Dane Hallett)

Synopsis: A mother reaches out to her estranged son in a last-ditch effort to convince him to farewell his father, but we soon discover that the wayward scion is lost in...

Happy Sunday, dear readers! With Indie Horror Month currently underway, we’re going to be putting the spotlight on short horror films every Sunday this April as we did last year. Today, we are starting off with a killer first-round of horror shorts that showcase some of the amazing filmmaking talents that are currently out there and making the world of horror a better place these days.

For the first installment of our Indie Horror Month Sunday Shorts series, we are featuring Granny’s Got Goblins from Max Cross and William Michael Ferrell, Alex Magaña’s Knock Knock, The Infiltration by Flynn Falcone, and Sam Evenson’s supernatural short, Ignore It.

Check out this quartet of short-form frights below and be sure to head back here next Sunday for our even more great horror short films that we are excited to celebrate for Indie Horror Month 2022.

Granny’s Got Goblins...

Smiling Woman and Other Short Horror Films from Alex Magaña: "Last Halloween I entered an under 3 minute horror short film contest. I lost, but since it's release, my short "Smiling Woman" has passed 2 million views on YouTube! Seeing the way people have reacted to it and the positive feed back inspired me to make more horror short films. It's been tough with the quarantine and Covid-19 but I've been finding creative ways to work and stay safe, such as filming out in the woods where we'd be away from people, writing scripts with a small cast and keeping to a 2-3 person crew. Starting July 15th, I have released an under 3 minute horror short film every Wednesday and will continue to do so.

I've been shooting skits ever since my dad let me use his camcorder as a teenager. I went to film school in Washington State and after...

Review by Stephen Tronicek

Alex Magaña’s What Love Looks Like looks like an ambitious project that doesn’t quite come together. Consisting of five stories of love in L.A., the film tasks itself with exploring the thematic territory of what causes us to fall in love, what causes us to get over it and the grey area in between.

That’s a difficult task. The writer of modern romantic comedies, Richard Curtis tried to pull it off in Love Actually and (through these subjective eyes) failed miserably. That Magaña and his team pull at least one or two halfway decent stories out of it is impressive. The best of these five stories is a liar revealed story between Calvin (Connor Wilkins) and Summer (Jamie Shelnitz). After a one night stand, Calvin plays the jerk and the pair leave each other’s lives…until an app brings them back together.

From RedBand.Ca, Sneak Peek restricted 'red band' footage supporting the limited release comedy feature, "Slapped! The Movie", directed by Alex Magaña, starring Aimée Binford, Mike Brakefield and Paul Cosca:

"...'Matt' is immature, overweight and has a loving mother and girlfriend who spoil him. Alex is skinny, a workaholic and lives a lonely single life. After a strange encounter with a magical bum, these two friends switch bodies and find out neither had it as easy as they thought..."

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Slapped! The Movie"...