Have I told you how much I love short films? Especially horror-comedy short films? I’m pretty sure I have but I’m going to tell you again just to be sure. From serious frights like Alfred J Hemlock and Balloon to more light hearted, comedic pieces such as Brutal Relax and Bad Cookie, I adore the short film format. In the age of Twitter and Snapchat it’s even arguable that attention spans might not be what they used to be and these shorter formats stand a better chance at succ

It was the summer of 1999 and I walked into the theater to watch a movie that, I was sure was fiction, though for a while beforehand No one was sure. It was the Blair Witch Project and I sat down with a girlfriend at the time to watch the film that would reinvent the found footage genre. The movie was pieced together from an unfinished documentary; it was raw, shaky, and cleverly done. It was also nauseating. People at the time were not used to that kind of camera movement a