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Something in the Barn: Folklore, Fear and the Horror Short
Three filmmakers discuss horror shorts, folklore and routes to a career in genre film at Foyle Film Festival.
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Something in the Barn: Folklore, Fear and the Horror Short
Three filmmakers from this year's British Short Film Competition take horror's oldest stories and give them new teeth.
Adrián Ramírez León , whose one-minute shorts have drawn tens of millions of views online, turns a one-night stand into darkly comic horror in Night Whispers .
John Foxen , editor and co-producer of Pawen , discusses its reimagining of W. W. Jacobs' classic The Monkey's Paw as a family tragedy.
Filmmaker Isabelle Kirk's Pandora reworks the Pandora myth into a dystopian tale of family secrets and the price of female curiosity.
Together they discuss how folklore is reanimated for today's audiences, and the different routes from viral shorts, film school and festival buzz to a sustained career in genre.
Something in the Barn: Folklore, Fear and the Horror Short
Three filmmakers from this year's British Short Film Competition take horror's oldest stories and give them new teeth.
Adrián Ramírez León , whose one-minute shorts have drawn tens of millions of views online, turns a one-night stand into darkly comic horror in Night Whispers .
John Foxen , editor and co-producer of Pawen , discusses its reimagining of W. W. Jacobs' classic The Monkey's Paw as a family tragedy.
Filmmaker Isabelle Kirk's Pandora reworks the Pandora myth into a dystopian tale of family secrets and the price of female curiosity.
Together they discuss how folklore is reanimated for today's audiences, and the different routes from viral shorts, film school and festival buzz to a sustained career in genre.
