How to Make a Short Horror Film from the Comfort of Your Own Home – Film School Rejects

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Stuck inside? Time to make a three-minute horror short with your wife!

Shadowed is the latest from Shazam!director David F. Sandberg, who, armed with no budget and plenty of time, has delivered a terrifying tale about one of the horror genres greatest sources of spooks: shadows. Using practical lighting, dark corridors, and hasty glimpses, our heroine (Lotta Losten) awakes to find the light is playing tricks on her. And some of those tricks may be deadly. With limited resources and a single location, Sandberg has thrown down the gauntlet, as far as self-isolation-spawned horror content is concerned.

Like most of Sandbergs horror shorts (more on that later) Shadowed is suspense-driven and high concept, best played in the dark with your headphones turned up. But why risk turning ones home into a house of horrors? Every shadow: an enemy! Every corner: a threat! Well, we have to keep things interesting somehow, folks. Dive in, I say! Our current situation has, in a way, democratized filmmaking for the time being. (Hell, Lars Von Trier is probably dusting off his Dogme letterman jacket, slowly stitching a 20 over the 95, humming the Tristan und Isolde preludewe assume.) So go out there and turn your house into a haunted one.

You can watchShadowedhere:

David F. Sandberg is stuck at home and has found something to occupy his time. In his case: making a no-budget horror film in his own house, starring his wife and frequent collaborator Lotta Losten (Lights Out,Annabelle: Creation). In fact, Sandberg has been making short horror films in his house, with his family, for many (6+) years now. This aint his first lets make a movie in our house rodeo, and it shows; Shadowedis economic, effective, and better produced than most quarantine quontent (sorry). Sandberg released Shadowed via his Twitter.

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How to Make a Short Horror Film from the Comfort of Your Own Home - Film School Rejects

Reviewed and Recommended by Erik Baquero