Sci-Fi Horror has led us into the depths of fear and back again, from the mundane to the fantastical. It's the fear of the unknown, the fear of the depths of space, and the fear of where our technology will lead. Here, the winners of Nyx Horror Collective's 13 Minutes of Horror 2022 60-Second Film Challenge lead you through the wicked, the weird and the worrisome all within one terrifying minute. =
Alba VillarongaBeautified Woman ("Beauty Booth")Leanne TarrabYoung Woman ("Beauty Booth")Kerry ReadyWoman 1 ("Beauty Booth")Lisa RamirezWoman 2 ("Beauty Booth")Gracie PiperComputer ("Beauty Booth")
Kristine GerolagaWoman ("Overtime")Steven KrimmelMan ("Overtime")Manase MisaKay ("Nothing Has Changed")
DJ TinazTaylor ("Nothing Has Changed")Meaghan MorrisWitch ("Screengrab")
When Nina and her high school friends receive eerie text messages declaring that they will all die within three days, they dismiss it as a hokey prank - until one by one, the pals start turning up dead in the alpine countryside. With the cops stymied, Nina and her remaining friends must scour their past for clues to identify the madman before he kills them all.
As Alex struggles with disturbing hallucinations, his wife Vera tries to help, until they both experience their own profound revelations.
A child is witness to an assault on a monk by the gang of Lorenzo the Fifth. The monk escapes and takes refuge in the estate of Doña Carlota, a countess who lives with her son Juan and daughter Beatriz. Basilisa, the maid, conjures the devil to free her son from an irreversible illness, but to do so the evil must be transmitted to an innocent soul, and for that she chooses Beatriz. The child begins to be the victim of a possession, for which everyone blames the monk.
On vacation at a remote lake house, a mother and her two young daughters must fight for survival after falling into a terrifying and bizarre nightmare conceived by a psychopath.
Facing a terminal disease, a mother uses space travel and relativity to stretch her last two years over the lifetime of her baby daughter, visiting for only one night every seven years. Mother and daughter must negotiate to build a relationship despite the longing and estrangement that marks the life moments they are able to share.
A young mother awakens in a mysterious cell and is forced to harness her telekinetic abilities in order to escape and save her daughter.
Rama, a 16 year old teenager, must face reality after a tragic accident that left his mother in a coma. With the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Rama and his father try to face their new reality.
Once an architect, Frank Bannister now passes himself off as an exorcist of evil spirits. To bolster his facade, he claims his "special" gift is the result of a car accident that killed his wife. But what he does not count on is more people dying in the small town where he lives. As he tries to piece together the supernatural mystery of these killings, he falls in love with the wife of one of the victims and deals with a crazy FBI agent.
A crafty child who wants to see his mother again after her death, finds a way to do it.
When an under appreciated single mother intercepts a strange transmission on her pocket radio she suspects that it may be linked to her teenage sons mysterious homemade gaming headset.
When they were children, Claire and Andrea would play Mary Worth (An old game where you say her name into a mirror three times). However, they could never muster the courage to say Mary's name the third time. Now curious and bored teenagers, they decide to play once more for fun. What they don't know is that the legend of Mary Worth is actually true, and if her name is recited at the right time of night, they will soon discover the terror that follows speaking the name... MARY WORTH.
After his wife and her blind sister have died under his care, a doctor's young daughter is kidnapped and reported as buried alive, leaving him with mere hours to find and rescue her.
When a hooded figure steps into an abandoned house deep in the woods, flickering lights awaken memories of the family who once called it home.
A mother, unable to confront the heartbreak of her son leaving for college, delays his departure by making him sick. Unfortunately, she goes too far.
A mother calls for outside help when her son begins misbehaving.
Set in the distant future, POLIS is a sci-fi thriller about David Porter, a young telepath whose search for his mother threatens to uncover a utopian society's horrifying secrets.
After_Life is a science fiction drama about Kurt, a young man who is trying to relive a failed relationship. After an accident, he will soon have to face the consequences of his failures and regrets, before it is too late.
After the death of her father, a young woman travels to a remote convent on an island in the Black Sea to find out why her father funded it for years.
After dying from a strange illness that she suffered for three years, a mother returns home to pick up her children.
Returning to her home town, overwhelmed by the birth of her firstborn, nineteen-year-old Chloe van Heerden tries to come to terms with motherhood. Despite the support from her own mother, Chloe struggles with the demands of caring for a newborn child. The incessant crying of her baby, the growing sense of guilt and paranoia send her into a dark depression. With a heightened urge to protect her son, she sees danger everywhere.