They say film festivals are meant to put some leaves on your poster, but “Dream Creep” is the only Oscar-qualifying short still proudly promoting that it made an audience member throw up.
Written and directed by Carlos A.F. Lopez, this buzzy short horror film debuted at Sundance 2024 before it was selected as one of seven titles in the festival’s theatrical tour. Clocking in at just 12 minutes and 34 seconds, the dazzling genre snippet stars Sidney Jayne Hunt and Ian Edlund as spouses stuck in a reverse “Nightmare on Elm Street”.
When a voice emanating from inside the sleeping woman’s head instructs her husband Not to wake her — but instead grab a meat thermometer from the kitchen and do something unthinkable to her ear — he’s forced to make a decision that could kill them both. The stomach-churning result starts streaming December 1 on Mubi
“Dream Creep” was selected for more than 65 film festivals,...
Written and directed by Carlos A.F. Lopez, this buzzy short horror film debuted at Sundance 2024 before it was selected as one of seven titles in the festival’s theatrical tour. Clocking in at just 12 minutes and 34 seconds, the dazzling genre snippet stars Sidney Jayne Hunt and Ian Edlund as spouses stuck in a reverse “Nightmare on Elm Street”.
When a voice emanating from inside the sleeping woman’s head instructs her husband Not to wake her — but instead grab a meat thermometer from the kitchen and do something unthinkable to her ear — he’s forced to make a decision that could kill them both. The stomach-churning result starts streaming December 1 on Mubi
“Dream Creep” was selected for more than 65 film festivals,...
- 11/27/2024
- by Alison Foreman
- Indiewire
Hang onto your ear holes! You can finally add “made someone in the audience puke” to the growing list of accolades recommending “Dream Creep.”
Among the best and buzziest ideas to come out of the festival circuit this year, writer/director Carlos A.F. Lopez’s brilliant horror short — about a couple awakened in the night to “sounds emanating from an unlikely orifice” — debuted at Sundance in January. Since then, it has won Scariest Short at The Overlook Film Festival and snagged the special mention for Worst Nightmare at Palm Springs ShortFest. “Dream Creep” has also screened at South by Southwest and other shorts showcases where its nightmarish reputation as “That ear movie” tends to precede it.
“I’ve had this idea for a long time,” Lopez told IndieWire, describing an epiphany he had while sleeping next to his wife, executive producer Cathy Lopez. “It sprang very organically from me waking...
Among the best and buzziest ideas to come out of the festival circuit this year, writer/director Carlos A.F. Lopez’s brilliant horror short — about a couple awakened in the night to “sounds emanating from an unlikely orifice” — debuted at Sundance in January. Since then, it has won Scariest Short at The Overlook Film Festival and snagged the special mention for Worst Nightmare at Palm Springs ShortFest. “Dream Creep” has also screened at South by Southwest and other shorts showcases where its nightmarish reputation as “That ear movie” tends to precede it.
“I’ve had this idea for a long time,” Lopez told IndieWire, describing an epiphany he had while sleeping next to his wife, executive producer Cathy Lopez. “It sprang very organically from me waking...
- 6/30/2024
- by Alison Foreman
- Indiewire
The Seattle Story Award recognizes an emerging, independent filmmaker who not only embodies diversity, innovation and uniqueness of vision, but has a history of transforming people through rich stories — exactly what Seattle does for anyone who spends time there.
This year’s recipient, Lael Rogers, embodies all of that while bringing a fresh female perspective to filmmaking.
Rogers is a writer, director and creative director for Seattle-based studio All is Well. She directed the narrative short “Collision” (2015) and episodes 1-3 of the online series Northern Belles (2016-2017). Both projects played film festivals nationally.
This year’s recipient, Lael Rogers, embodies all of that while bringing a fresh female perspective to filmmaking.
Rogers is a writer, director and creative director for Seattle-based studio All is Well. She directed the narrative short “Collision” (2015) and episodes 1-3 of the online series Northern Belles (2016-2017). Both projects played film festivals nationally.
- 6/3/2019
- by Rolling Stone
- Rollingstone.com
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