Happy Friday, readers! 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 in an effort to show this storytelling format a little more love.
For this installment, we have an assortment of excellent shorts, including Jill Gevargizian's early effort CALL GiRL, the horror comedy Teddy Bears Are For Lovers (which looks to be on its way to becoming a feature film very soon), It Began Without Warning from Santiago C. Tapia and Jessica Curtwright, and the family-oriented fright fest Home Education by filmmaker Andrea Niada.
CALL GiRL (Directed by Jill Gevargizian): "In one man's attempt to exploit his date night via video-chat, he ends up sharing something far more disturbing."
Teddy Bears Are For Lovers (Directed by Almog Avidan Antonir): "A short horror comedy following a 20-something Casanova who becomes haunted by the teddy bears he gave to his ex-girlfriends."
It Began Without Warning (Directed by Santiago C. Tapia & Jessica Curtwright): "IT BEGAN WITHOUT WARNING Or: 'The time has come,' the Walrus said. And all the little Oysters stood and waited in a row."
Home Education (Directed by Andrea Niada): "An inquisitive girl is convinced by her controlling mother that her dead dad will resurrect if they show how much they miss him. That is, until he begins to rot..."
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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