31 Nights of Halloween: The Visitor (2024)

It's been a few years since we last checked in with filmmaker David Fershtadt, but we noticed that he just released a new short film so now seemed like the perfect time. His supernatural domestic troubles are continuing... much to his detriment but for our entertainment.

We hope you enjoy this mini trip into mysterious moodiness as much as we did!

Visitor (2024)

Starring: David Fershtadt

Director: David Fershtadt

Rating: Seven of Ten Stars

31 Nights of Halloween: Incoming Call

Incoming Call (2021)
Starring: David Fershtadt

Director: David Fershtadt

Rating: Seven of Ten Stars

A young man (Fershtadt) gets a late-night video call from himself.

I don't know exactly what's going on in this film, but I like it. The staging, the pacing, the acting... I like everything about this. It's another example of how the horror genre morphs to keep up with and integrate technologies at the center of our daily lives at the time they are made. 

Take a few minutes to watch "Incoming Call" right now. Even if you're like me and not quite sure what to make of the ending, you'll find that it is a cautionary about why not answer strange calls (video chat or otherwise) during the 31 Nights of Halloween. And if you want to tell me what YOUR thoughts are about "Incoming Call" and what's going on in it, feel free to speak up in the comments section!

(By the way, we featured Mr. Fershtadt's first film on October 22 during last year's 31 Nights of Halloween. Maybe we can get a tradition going? We'll see if we can have another mini-chiller in this spot from him on this day in 2022!)

31 Nights of Halloween: We Do Fun?

We Do Fun? (2020)
Starring: David Fershtadt
Director: David Fershtadt

Rating: Seven of Ten Stars

A young man (Fershtadt) encounters a strange presence in his bathroom.

Straight-to-the-point, completely weird, and ending on a creepy note and with no answers given as to whether the bathroom was haunted by a ghost, or whether the Bathtub Fairy had popped in for a visit... It doesn't matter that we don't know the hows, or whos, or whys of this odd encounter in the bathroom, because the ending is in perfect keeping with the rest of the film. 

Check it out. If nothing else, you can take it as a cautionary tale that nowhere is safe during the 31 Nights of Halloween!

David Fershtadt is a filmmaker who, near as I can tell, is literally at the very beginning of his career. If what we see of his sense of story-telling and ability to frame a shot is any indication of his talent, I think his will be a name we're going to see often in the future.