Feeling stressed out this holiday season? You're not alone. In the short film Midnight Clear (directed by Nightmare Cinema producer Joe Russo), a woman can't shake the feeling that something is horribly wrong, lending a palpable sense of unease to her family's seemingly perfect (maybe too perfect) Christmas celebration.
You can watch Midnight Clear in its entirety below (you might even view your own holiday parties a little differently after watching it), and we also have the short film's official synopsis and a brief background on Russo:
"Playing off a universal socio-political fear, MIDNIGHT CLEAR preys on something lurking in the back of every American’s mind, made all the more frightening by taking place on the day when our guard is down — Christmas."
"Joe Russo is the producer of the upcoming horror anthology feature, NIGHTMARE CINEMA, and the critically acclaimed horror podcast, POST MORTEM with Mick Garris. In February of 2017 Joe directed the Valentine’s Day horror short, BE MINE, for Eli Roth’s Crypt TV and he has been featured on the 2016 and 2017 Blood List - the top 13 best unproduced genre screenplays of the year."
Directed by Joe Russo from a screenplay he co-wrote with John Jesensky, Midnight Clear stars Jessica Morris, Kurt Kubicek, Caige Coulter, and Kue Coulter. The short film was produced by John Jesensky, Cherish McDowell, Joe Russo, and Kurt Yochum.
Raised on a steady diet of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books and Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Derek has been fascinated with fear since he first saw ForeverWare being used on an episode of Eerie, Indiana.
When he’s not writing about horror as the Senior News Reporter for Daily Dead, Derek can be found daydreaming about the Santa Carla Boardwalk from The Lost Boys or reading Stephen King and Brian Keene novels.
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