We made it, readers! For those of us here in the States, the long Memorial Day weekend is upon us, and what better way to spend some of that extra free time than by checking out some great short films?
For this installment of Daily Dead’s ongoing Salutes Your Shorts series, we kick things off with the ’80s slasher throwback Night of the Axe, which is definitely NSFW and was directed by Shawn Wright. Next up is Winnie Cheung’s Albatross Soup, which is more genre-adjacent than anything, but I love the psychedelic animation style and its unusual premise, so I promise it’s still very much worth your time. And to wrap things up, we have How to Be Alone, which was directed by Kate Trefry (who is also a writer on Stranger Things).
Night of the Axe (Directed by Shawn Wright)
Synopsis: A group of girls are stalked one by one by a sadistic, masked killer.
NSFW:
Albatross Soup (Directed by Winnie Cheung)
Synopsis: Albatross Soup is a delightfully fluid animation that lyrically complements a chorus of voices attempting to investigate a puzzling suicide: A man gets off a boat. He walks into a restaurant and orders albatross soup. He takes one sip... pulls out a gun, and shoots himself to death. So...why did he kill himself?
How to Be Alone (Directed by Kate Trefry)
Synopsis: A woman's deepest fears seem to manifest physically when her husband leaves for the night shift.
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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