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Hello, I’m looking for feedback on my debut feature film. It’s a found footage horror film about a woman trapped in a liminal room where she regresses into an animal. Would love feedback on the formal choices, acting, writing, pacing, escalation, reversals, etc. I welcome brutal and confrontational reviews, please just try and engage with the work.

Screenplay

Animal Trap Found Footage Horror Film

When you try to complete an incomplete story, sometimes you yourself become a part of that story...

दिवाकर सामंतांची गोष्ट (Diwakar Samant's Tale) an atmospheric, mind-bending marathi psychological horror short film (with English subtitles).

Please watch it and like, share, and subscribe to the Oneiric Creations YouTube channel

The best way to enjoy it would be a laptop or TV or with headphones.

Hey folks!

Long time lurker, first time poster.

I thought I would share this short experimental horror film, "The Daddy Ish", that I recently released.

Please tell me what you think in the comments below!

EXIT 84

This short serves as a proof of concept for a full length feature film and was created to introduce audiences to the world, mystery, and horror of Gallotin.

A ROSSANOTRA TV ORIGINAL

Some roads were never meant to be found.

For generations, the small town of Gallotin, Texas has carried a secret buried beneath its quiet streets.

It began more than a century ago when a desperate mayor made a deal with a mysterious stranger known only as The Traveler.

The deal saved Gallotin.

But the Devil always collects.

When unsuspecting travelers begin finding an exit that shouldn't exist, they discover a town that feels almost too welcoming and a terrifying truth waiting beneath the surface.

EXIT 84 is an original supernatural horror short film from Rossanotra TV, written and directed by Michael Ross.

This short serves as a proof of concept for a full length feature film and was created to introduce audiences to the world, mystery, and horror of Gallotin.

If you want to see EXIT 84 become a full length feature, support the film by watching, liking, commenting, sharing, and subscribing to Rossanotra TV.

Every view helps show that there is an audience ready to see what lies beyond Exit 84.

Created by Michael Ross

Written and Directed by Michael Ross

A Rossanotra TV Production

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The road has chosen you.

Welcome to Gallotin.

Violent weather carries a reckoning to a woman at the edge of sanity.

My buddy and I run a small production company in Quebec called From Outer Space Films, and we just released our short horror film The Wanderer on YouTube.

It follows Thomas, whose quiet night is interrupted when an old friend shows up at his door seeking refuge from a storm... only for him to realize that whatever she’s running from may have followed her.

This was the first “proper” short we made together after film school, entirely self-funded, and I thought I’d share a couple of things we learned from making it... including one mistake we definitely wouldn’t repeat.

Keep your first film simple

In Quebec, we’re fortunate to have access to quite a bit of public film funding. The catch is that, to become eligible for a lot of it, you first need to prove yourself by making work independently and, ideally, getting that work into recognized festivals.

So that became our goal: make the best short we could actually afford to make ourselves.

We deliberately kept the concept extremely contained: two actors, one location. I’d highly recommend imposing similar limitations if you’re making one of your first shorts. Instead of stretching a small budget across a ton of locations, characters and production days, we could put what little money and time we had into the things that would actually end up on screen.

Those limitations actually helped us find the story, too. We’ve always loved creepypastas and urban legends, and one of the things we find so effective about the best stories in that genre is how little they actually need. They’re often incredibly short and simple - sometimes just a strange encounter or a single unsettling idea - and yet they can be genuinely scary.

That became a good model for what we were trying to do. Rather than thinking of two actors and one location as something we had to write around, we started thinking about what kind of scary story could actually benefit from being that simple. Eventually, that led us to The Wanderer.

And then we made a dumb distribution mistake

The funny part is that The Wanderer is actually pretty old at this point. It premiered at the Fantasia International Film Festival back in 2022 and went on to have a pretty decent two-year festival run.

Then… we basically let it die on a hard drive. We moved on to other, bigger projects and, for whatever reason, never really prioritized putting the film online.

We finally released it on YouTube recently, and in less than 10 days it has already gotten around 6,000 views. The reels, clips and posts we made around it have also accumulated tens of thousands of views and hundreds of likes across social media. Obviously those aren't astronomical numbers, but compared with a film literally sitting unseen on a hard drive, it's been a pretty eye-opening reminder of how much life a short can still have after festivals.

So if I could give one piece of advice to filmmakers going through the festival circuit now: have your online release strategy ready before your festival run ends. Don't do what we did and wait several years because you feel like the film has already had its moment. Festivals and an online audience serve very different purposes, and finishing one doesn't mean you should neglect the other.

Anyway, we’re really happy that The Wanderer is finally out in the world where people can actually watch it. Hope you enjoy it!

EDIT: You can find the film on Letterboxd by the way! Right over here: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-wanderer-2022/

All plot points and character defining moments condensed to understand an entire movie in 5 minutes!

This is loosely inspired by the scp-035 myth. Would love to hear your opinion

The second installment in my new found footage, digital horror web series, Heavensent.