If you think you're having relationship troubles, you might feel better after watching this little tidbit.
Overly Possessive (2017)
Starring: Jon Robben and Colleen Kelly
Director: Russell Hansen
Rating: Nine of Ten Stars
(For more short films, make sure you're back in here October for the 31 Nights of Halloween. We'll try to get something up once a month until then... but only the October festival is a sure thing!)
Some of the short films featured during the 31 Nights of Halloween leave you with more questions than answers once they're over. Sometimes, it's a flaw in the storytelling. Other times, it's exactly what makes the film so great. Tonight's mini-masterpiece is of the latter kind, and I'm sure you're going to love it.
(Heck, as I began to write the above paragraph, I was going to raise the criticism that the film relies on Stupid Character Syndrome to work, but they I realized that it didn't. This tale of a woman who follows a van with a kidnap victim in the back is, in fact, perfectly executed. It's one of the best films featured during this year's festival!)
The Devil's Passenger (2018)
Starring: Colleen Kelly and Gabrielle Niebaur
Director: Dave Bundtzen
Rating: Ten of Ten Stars
(If you're new in these parts, Stupid Character Syndrome is what takes hold when characters do things that are absolutely, blazingly idiotic because otherwise the story wouldn't work. I take it as a sign of lazy writing. In the case of "The Devil's Passenger" there isn't even a whisper of Stupid Character Syndrome.)
Looking for work? Accepting a job during the 31 Nights of Halloween might not be the best of ideas, as the subject of tonight's morbid morsel of terror discovers...
Window Dressing (2019)
Starring: Colleen Kelly and Elaine Partnow
Rating: Eight of Ten Stars
This is the first of two short films starring Colleen Kelly that we'll be featuring during this years 31 Nights of Halloween. Watch for next one!
Colleen Kelly is an American model and actress who gets most of her bread-and-butter from appearing in television commercial, but has also from 2012 onward been front-and-center in some very excellent horror short films, such as "Overly Possessive" (2017), "The Devil's Passenger" (2018), and "Window Dressing" (2019). Other horror credits include in the 2012 micro-television horror series "Kisses", the Twilight Zone tribute film "Mr. and Mrs. Kill" (2012), and the feature length fright film "Clawed" (2017).
You'll see Kelly in two short films during this year's 31 Nights of Halloween, and, now that she's on our radar, she'll probably also pop up during the "off-season" Terror on the Thirteenth posts.
