Penny Dreadful
SFX’s high priestess of horror
This issue I’m celebrating all things that are short – and also Lavalantulas, which aren’t
SHORT CUTS
There are some seriously good lockdown horror shorts out there. For starters, check out Dark Mode (bit.ly/shortdark) by Brit filmmaker Jamie Hooper, whose feature debut The Creeping is currently in post. Massively tense, it has a very similar vibe to David F Sandberg’s Lights Out, which went on to spawn a feature version. Conveniently enough, Sandberg has also released a new lockdown short: Not Alone In Here (bit.ly/shortalone), starring Lotta Losten as a woman home alone who has the strong sense there’s someone or something in the house - people being at home with an entity is unsurprisingly the theme of many lockdown films. You can also watch a very good Making Of (bit.ly/shortmaking) which might inspire you to make your own.