Greetings, gang! Welcome back for another installment of Daily Dead Salutes Your Shorts, our bi-monthly column that turns the spotlight on several horror and sci-fi themed short films. This week, we have an eclectic array of digital distractions on tap, including Lucy Campbell’s thought-provoking The Pig Child, the quirky body horror of He Took His Skin Off For Me, the cautionary tale POD, and Chloe Okuno’s psychological deep dive, SLUT.
We hope you enjoy this collection of shorts, and be sure to head back right here on Daily Dead in two weeks for more short-form genre goodness.
The Pig Child (Directed by Lucy Campbell): "An ambitious scientist takes the perilous decision to inseminate herself with an embryo combining both human and animal cells. Discovering that she is carrying a "pig child" she is torn between scientific drive and maternalistic urges."
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He Took His Skin Off For Me (Directed by Ben Aston): "A simple, domestic love story about a man who takes his skin off for his girlfriend, and why it probably wasn't the best idea..."
To watch He Took His Skin Off For Me, visit Shudder online (in the US) or watch the video below:
POD (Directed by Alex J. Mann): "Don’t skip podcast ads."
SLUT (Directed by Chloe Okuno): "Maddy is 16 years old. She lives alone with her sick grandmother in a rundown farmhouse off a highway in Nowheresville, Texas. She does her best to take care of her mute, wheelchair-bound grandmother, but life at home is lonely and depressing. So, like everyone else within a 20-mile radius, Maddy spends her free time at the only place with half a pulse- the local roller rink. With her shabby clothes, large glasses, and dangerous naivete, Maddy is a hopeless misfit amongst her peers. Determined to embrace her inner vixen, Maddy looks to a girl named Jolee- beautiful, blonde, and unapologetically promiscuous- as a sort of model for what attracts men. Unfortunately for Maddy, it’s just at this time that an older, charismatic Stranger enters her life, a man whose charm masks the impulses of a murderous, misogynistic psychopath."
Heather A. Wixson was born and raised in the Chicago suburbs, until she followed her dreams and moved to Los Angeles in 2009. A 14-year veteran in the world of horror entertainment journalism, Wixson fell in love with genre films at a very early age, and has spent more than a decade as a writer and supporter of preserving the history of horror and science fiction cinema. Throughout her career, Wixson has contributed to several notable websites, including Fangoria, Dread Central, Terror Tube, and FEARnet, and she currently serves as the Managing Editor for Daily Dead, which has been her home since 2013. She's also written for both Fangoria Magazine & ReMind Magazine, and her latest book project, Monsters, Makeup & Effects: Volume One will be released on October 20, 2021.
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