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Check out this trailer for a short film titled Reverse Parthenogenesis, directed by Javier Grillo-Marxuach (The Middleman, Lost) and starring our favorite Buffy cast members Amber Benson and Adam Busch. It's all about a pregnancy-impaired couple — watch what happens when they baby you're blessed with is actually a curse on the human race! More »
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Written by Skins scribe Geoff Bussetil and shot by Misfits director Tom Harper, this surprisingly entertaining alien invasion short film (titled Swarm) was made entirely using smartphones. Little did we know the whole thing was actually a promotion for Sony's Xperia Arc S — we were too busy watching these people getting eaten by the alien swarm! More »
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All your life, you've probably told that reading was good for you. Reading will get you ahead in school, land you a good job, and preserve human civilization. But that's because reading has been lying in wait all this time, readying itself so the day it destroys mankind. In the animated short Reading Kills, bookworms, news junkies, and sandwich board skimmers alike face the deadly consequences of reading. More »
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This strange, short movie was created by the father of the muppets, Jim Henson. Filmed in 1963 for the Bell System this robot was used to lighten the mood at the big Bell conference. What they got was something completely Henson — and abnormally delightful. More »
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Serving the Galactic Empire comes with some murky moral questions: Is the Rebel Alliance really a terrorist organization? Is political stability worth the destruction of an entire planet? Should I serve in a military that doesn't even teach me how to shoot properly? As the short film "Love Wars" reveals, those questions become even more complicated when you're hiding the fact that you're gay.

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Never trust a gorgeous woman with a cow tail. Check out the brand new trailer about an enchanted beast from Norwegian folklore centered around the dangerous and sexy creature known as the huldra. More »
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Erin Cosgrove created this dark, weird trailer for Ben Marcus' new novel, The Flame Alphabet. Billed as "an intellectual horror story," it's the tale of a world-ending disease that spreads through language. Only children are immune. More »
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In 1981, British working class neighborhood Brixton saw an outbreak of rioting in response to several violent episodes between local police and Brixton's black residents. Now, filmmaker Kibwe Tavares has reimagined these riots between police and robot workers. More »
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Remember The Suburbs, the totalitarian-urban-sprawl music video collaboration between Being John Malkovich's Spike Jonze and indie darlings Arcade Fire? Now you can watch a much longer companion piece, Scenes from the Suburbs. Growing up sucks in a police state. More »
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"I'm just a zombie standing in front of a zombie asking it to love me!" Check out this cute little undead short titled "Rotting Hill," created by James Cunningham and Guy Hamling at New Zealand's Media Design School. More »
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From the same crew that created the astounding short Heartless: The Story of the Tin Man comes Blood On My Name, a dark gothic musical. Watch two men awaken an ancient evil in the wilderness, by singing. More »
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The horrors of 7th Grade sex education retold — with an eldritch H.P. Lovecraft spin. Watch this amazing short film, "Late Bloomer" by Craig Macneill, and learn about the the monsters inside us all. More »
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Unlock your inner expressionist with these wild stills for über art haus flick 1000 Kings. See what emotionless world awaits us all in the distant future. First person to make a Sprocket joke wins! More »
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Cute, mind-bending, and a little bit gross, Schizofredric is a short film from the UK about a guy whose life - and space opera novel - are going nowhere fast. Until he gets a little "trans dimensional" therapy that he orders from a strange self-help company online. If you need a mental health break today, fill it with this short film. It will definitely improve your state of mind. More »
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This clip from the short film c offers an evocative character sketch of a spaceship officer plunging into the unknown. I love the weird mood evoked by the effects and music, which suggest this film is as invested in its characters as its futuristic technologies. More »
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This music video by the Portland Cello Project showed last weekend at the Seattle Science Fiction Short Film Festival, and it's a weird, moving story of a crustacean who just wants to escape the bounds of Earth. More »
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This hilarious short film is a cross between Lovecraftian madness and a pharmaceutical ad or a Mormonism commercial. It will have you snickering for days. More »
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Legendary concept artist Syd Mead takes us into the future and talks about what sort of gadgets await us in the year 2019 in a new featurette. Plus get a closer look at some of his gorgeous futuristic concept art. More »
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We've been excited about HP Lovecraft-inspired Dirt Dauber since it started making the film festival circuit last year. Now it's out on DVD. More »
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Check out the trailer for the Half-Life-inspired short film titled Beyond Black Mesa. The entire project was made for a mere $1,200, and it looks better than most big-budget Hollywood movies out there. More »
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Watch the entire life span of a freshly born meteor as it comes to terms with life, and its inevitable splashy end. This short film is all too bittersweet. More »
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We've been following the work of Clark Baker's short film Vessel ever since we laid eyes on his monster on a plane creations. But now the film has wrapped, and we're got first ever footage of the mile-high alien. More »
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If you want a visual feast, you must watch UK short "Reign Of Death" - it's dystopian futurism, complete with film noir robots and a high tech gumshoe. More »
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Grzegorz Jonkajtys, director of Cannes-nominated animated short "Ark," writes to tell us that he's finished a new dystopian short called "The 3rd Letter." We've got art and a teaser from this nightmarish world of evil health insurance bureaucracy. More »
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Filmmaker Ross Ching created this short film, Running on Empty, imagining the usually traffic-clogged L.A. without an auto in sight. It's a masterfully simple piece of cinematic trickery — and a perfect look at L.A. after the zombie apocalypse. [Slashfilm] More »
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If you've been wondering where the great stories of radioactive mutants and nuclear apocaplyse have gone, Israeli film student Daniel Fallick has the answer. His short Radium, set in a nuked Tel Aviv, gives us a Middle Eastern Mad Max. More »
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Written and directed by Matthew Gordon Long, The Anachronism is short steampunk film which about two young children on a science expedition on a beautiful sunny day. Then they discover Septopus, a 14-foot robotic squid. We've got the full film. More »
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When It Will Be Silent is the sophomore project for Israeli film student Dan Sachar. What are the odds Hollywood lets him stay through until graduation? More »
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Collaborating with award-winning fantasy illustrator Charles Vess, Gaiman is releasing a gloriously rendered book of his poem, Instructions, later this month. But this animated short promo, narrated by Gaiman, is awesome in and of itself. More »
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The world of crappy remakes won't even stop with actual crappy movies. Asylum makes a Megapiranha movie, crabs continues ravaging France and two shorts worth your attention. More »
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What better way to celebrate the holiday season than with a bunch of dolls that want to eat your soul? Plus a brand new brain-busting trailer that may be the next scifi infatuation, Re-Wire. More »
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Chris Jones spent eight years animating his moody and quirky short The Passenger, and now it's available online. It's a dark and stormy night, and a nervous chap rides a bus with only a spooky goldfish for company. More »
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The world has been nuked. Under Paris, a woman waits months alone in a bunker with only canned food for company. She's about to commit suicide when a voice comes over the radio. Find out what happens next in Bunker. More »
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I love this mysterious teaser trailer for short film Leap, which is about the dangerous side of travel between parallel worlds. The concept design is beautiful, and the mundane-looking snorkel gear adds an odd sense of menace. More »
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A moody, disturbing tale of underground surgeons, "Manifest Destiny" is the first film from Darrell and Doug Waters, who shot the whole thing in their garage with medical supplies they ordered from eBay. The twist ending will blow your mind. More »
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There is something silly and sad about this strange little animated short, called The Agronaut, from Polish concept design firm GS Animation. via Drawn! More »
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In Istvan Masdarasz’s awesome new short film, Sooner or Later, the Nazis, desperate at the end of World War II, test a time travel serum on human subjects, hoping they can still claim a retroactive victory. But when the serum starts to work on one of the subjects, neither the subject nor the guard watching him really knows what to expect. Click through to watch the entire short film. More »
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What if Gorgo the giant lizard came back for a rampage and the only people who could stop him were two aged bureaucrats in the basement of Britain's Ministry of Defence? You'd get the satirical short film Waiting for Gorgo, currently in post-production, which is about what happens when a young defense analyst discovers the forgotten giant monster research group DMOA. They've been prepping for an attack from the cheesiest giant monster of the 1960s, the UK Godzilla ripoff Gorgo (left). We've got pictures of some incredibly funny props from the set, plus more details below. More »
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If you're in the U.K. and have always wanted to make a scifi movie in two days with a bunch of your pals, it's time to test your fast-movie fu. Scifi film geekfest Sci-Fi London is launching its "48 Hour Film Challenge" on April 5th at the Apollo West End. Entrants will be given a randomly-generated film title, some dialog and a prop. They have two days to turn those ingredients into a movie "no shorter than 3 minutes, and no longer than 5 minutes" by April 7th. Those conditions don't sound much worse than what B-movie directors of the 1950s and 60s dealt with. More »
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