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Opening on a seamstress in her home as she explores her femininity through the clothes she sews, initially, nothing on the surface of Katelyn Douglass’ Spanked by a Ghost seems too out of the ordinary. And yet, from the first few frames, we become voyeurs to something much more sensual and private. A quiet tension begins to build when suddenly she’s… spanked?

With Halloween still six weeks away, it might seem a little premature to turn our attention to horror. But with our Nightmare Shorts competition already underway – and a whole new crop of terrifying films currently making their way to u...

With Leela, the titular character in Tanmay Chowdhary’s (Madhu) latest short, absent for the entirety of the film, we’re left to contemplate her disappearance alongside two other young women from her hometown. “There are rumours that she might be dead,” ...

There are few prospects more terrifying to a stand-up comedian than bombing on stage. A nuclear bomb outside, however, probably qualifies.

That escalation is the deliciously high-concept premise behind NUKE, director Kelsea Bauman-Murphy and writer/star

Amy is missing. Her best friend Lola doesn’t want to sit at home and wait, so she puts on her yoga pants, grabs a tote bag and starts a search party with a guy named David, who Amy went on a hike with. In Best Friends With the Devil, writer/director Hugo De Sousa keeps the audience on the edge of its seat, with back-to-back twists and turns leaving us wondering at ...