Hello once again, Daily Dead readers! Today, we’ve got four more fantastic genre short films that offer up a little bit of everything—killer robots, inept Satanists, obsessed housekeepers, and call girls who get more than they bargained for—as we once again turn our spotlight onto short-form storytelling with an assortment of gut-punch films that we do hope you enjoy.
For this installment of Daily Dead Salutes Your Shorts, we celebrate the recently released Saint Frankenstein from Scooter McCrae, the hilarious Born Again by Jason Tostevin, Rob McLellan’s horror/sci-fi mash-up ABE, and because this writer recently had the opportunity to see the feature film version, this felt like the perfect time to share Jon Knautz’s The Cleaning Lady, which is the short that helped put the wheels in motion for the feature that just recently premiered at Arrow Video’s UK FrightFest.
Saint Frankenstein (Directed by Scooter McCrae)
Details: In the latest from legendary underground NYC writer/director Scooter McCrae (SHATTER DEAD, SIXTEEN TONGUES), a call girl visits a badly-scarred client at a rundown motel and gets more than she bargained for once clothing is shed and a mysterious history behind a legendary name begins to unfold.
Born Again (Directed by Jason Tostevin)
Details: Worst. Satanists. Ever. It's tough work scheduling the apocalypse. But when these bumbling Satanists finally get on the same page, their summoning ceremony goes terribly, terribly ... right. And now they have to deal with the truly holy shit consequences.
The Cleaning Lady (Directed by Jon Knautz)
Details: A burn-victim maid grows a twisted obsession for a woman whose apartment she cleans.
ABE (Directed by Rob McLellan)
Details: ABE is a tense, psychological horror about a robot who's looking for love in all the wrong places.
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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