So, for the edition of Spooky Films I’m going to discuss three short film that I really enjoyed. Two of these I had the pleasure of seeing on the big screen at a horror film festival and the final one on-line.
Short films can be a great medium for horror. Get in, get to your central concept, and get back out again.
A married. couple about to host an intimate dinner/blind date for another couple are surprised by the wife’s old college roommate sudden arrival with her spouse. When the final guest arrives 
his usual appearance and nature sparks fear and unease in the uninvited guests.
This is a horror comedy and hits both notes dead-on. If there is a lesson to be learned here it is do not ‘just drop in’ unexpectedly one people
A fictionalized story of iconoclast and filmmaker Werner Herzog on a blind date while his former star and now enemy Klaus Kinski attempts to murder him. The impersonations of Herzog and Kinski are pitch-perfect. The more you know the history of these unique men the funnier the short becomes.
An embezzler, wrecked with guilt, on a lonely and deserted highway hears a call for help from a fading AM radio station but the cosmic horror he discovers there is far deep and far more terrible than his own petty crimes.
The longest of these short films Am 1200 was director David Prior, director of the feature The Empty Man.
