Shorts Program 9: Midnight Movies
Saturday 10th February / 23:00 / City Kino Wedding & Online
Shorts Program 9: Midnight Movies (100 mins)
It’s late and you’re probably starting to feel delirious so step right up and delight in these ghastly and bizarre shorts! Get ready for family car rides from hell, metahorror exercises, baffling anomalies, and the just plain silly in this eclectic midnight block!
CHOMP (8:54)
Directed by Suki-Rose & Cricket Arrison, US, 2023 | European Premiere | Available online
A news studio is the perfect breeding ground for a new kind of monster.
The Möbius Trip (17:08)
Directed by Simone Smith, UK, 2023 | Available online
A road trip to a wedding pushes a dysfunctional family to the brink after their journey descends into a claustrophobic hallucinatory nightmare.
Anxiety Bites (2:29)
Directed by Sunny Keller, US, 2023 | European Premiere | Available online
A student's anxiety gets the best of her while taking a test.
Inner Demons (10:54)
Directed by Jasmine Johnson, US, 2023 | European Premiere
Mya prepares to fight the horrors lurking within.
The House That Hungers (13:55)
Directed by Maria Lewis, Australia, 2023 | Available online
“It’s the house,” her mother always said. “It hungers.” Polixenia never believed the woman in life, but in death she begins to wonder if the stories might be true. When a citywide lockdown is enforced, Polixenia is suddenly stuck inside the house where generations of her family have lived and died. And if she doesn’t come up with a solution soon, it will consume her too.
Pu Ekaw Tnod (6:48)
Directed by Rebecca Culverhouse, UK, 2023 | German Premiere | Available online
A couple watching a horror film try to stop events from repeating as they are sucked into a waking nightmare.
Through the Meat Grinder (2:50)
Directed by Abby Brenker & Sarah Quincy, US, 2023 | European Premiere | Available online
A woman grapples with normative gender roles in her marriage, as a monster grows within her.
Storm (7:50)
Directed by Lena Tsodykovskaya, US, 2023 | German Premiere | Available online
A couple wakes on a stormy night to find themselves trapped in the mechanisms of a horror movie.
Stop Dead (7:56)
Directed by Emily Greenwood, UK, 2023 | Available online
When a workaholic city detective and her laid-back partner try to stop a dishevelled girl staggering down the middle of a country road, they discover she’s being stalked by some unseen entity with a horrifying ultimatum: you stop moving, you die.
The Intruder (13:00)
Written and directed by Janine Hewitt, Australia, 2004 | Available online
When Zoe, captive in her home and terrorised by a stalker, receives an unexpected visitor, she learns that when you’re trapped in the past, you have no future.