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Not feeling quite festive this holiday season? Could you use a few more scares on a cold winter night? If you have even just a few minutes to spare, we’ve got you covered!

Writer/director Adam Davis recently released his award-winning Christmas short film Orum via CryptTV‘s official YouTube page. With genre staple Kristina Klebe taking the lead, Orum finds a grieving daughter attempting to bring her mother back from beyond the grave–with horrifying consequences. Always game for a memorable genre role, horror icons Barbara Crampton and Bill Moseley are caught up in the holiday horror here as Klebe’s parents, a welcome addition to this brief but satisfying slice of short-form terror. Former WWE wrestler Paul London rounds out the cast.

Following its festival run, Orum was ultimately nominated for Best Horror Short and Best Supporting Performance (Barbara Crampton) at the 2024 Nightmares Film Festival. Sitting at a brief,...

"Your life's on the line, got to rhyme to survive! Who will choke, who will make it out alive?" Don't skip this clever short film! Rhyme or Die is a horror comedy short created by filmmaker Max Lincoln, with writer Alex Moran. It was made early on during the pandemic, filmed in a shut down nightclub, first premiering in 2021 at Screamfest. Now it's finally online to watch after playing the festival circuit for a few years picking up awards all over. Five kidnapped strangers are forced to rhyme to their captor's funky beats - or die. It's a rap battle horror short! Who's ready to rhyme??...

Horror has long been a genre used to explore much darker and more sinister themes than may immediately be apparent on the narrative surface. And so, when filmmaker Max Lincoln – who first came to our attention with his dystopian graduation short Thyme – was deciding on the direction of his next project, he found himself inspired to explore the conflicts within the creative world through a horror-fuelled lens. A collaboration with writer Alex Moran whose meticulously written rhyming dialogue deftly reflects the traits of each character vying for survival, Rhyme or Die gleefully presents a literal bloodbath that comes from fierce creative competition, all masterminded by a delightfully quirky, merciless puppet master. It’s a film that is as inventive as it is shocking and one that immerses its audience with escalating tension and some very satisfying spurting SFX. Ahead of Rhyme or Die’s online premiere today, we invited Lincoln...