Fun Size Horror is a collective of filmmakers, led by Zeke Pinheiro, Mali Elfman, and Michael May. The collective's purpose is to create
short film
A short film is any motion picture that is short enough in running time not to be considered a feature film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes ...
s that will "explore horror from every angle."
Pinheiro first came up with the idea after realizing that he knew several filmmakers that wanted to "create their own thing and all love horror, but were never given a platform". The collective's initial goal was to create thirty-one horror films by Halloween 2015, but has since expanded to include the creation of additional short horror films. In March 2016 the collective launched an Indiegogo
crowdsourcing
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campaign, with the goal to use the funding to change the collective and website's infrastructure and produce more content. To date two volumes of the shorts have been released for live-streaming through online outlets such as Amazon and Hulu. Shorts have been directed by a wide range of directors and have starred actors such as
Keir Gilchrist
Keir David Peters Gilchrist (; born 28 September 1992) is a Canadian actor and musician. On television, he portrayed Marshall Gregson on the Showtime comedy-drama ''United States of Tara'' (2009–2011) and headlined the Netflix comedy-drama '' ...
.
Dread Central
Dread Central is an American website founded in 2006 that is dedicated to horror news, interviews, and reviews. It covers horror films, comics, novels, and toys. Dread Central has won the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award for Best Website ...
rated the first thirty-one shorts favorably, as they felt that the amount of offerings would help ensure that viewers would have a short that they enjoyed.
Selected shorts
''Fun Size Horror: Volume One'' (2015)
* "When They Say You're Alone" (2014, 4 min.) – directed by Grant Olin
* "Knock Knock" (2014, 4 min.) – directed by Anthony Lund
* "Happy Birthday" (2014, 3 min.) – directed by Erin Stegeman
* "Entity" (2014, 4 min.) – directed by Michael May
* "Bad Eggs"(2014, 3 min.) – directed by Max Isaacson
* "The Screaming"(2014, 2 min.) – directed by Dick Grunert
* "Persephone" (2014, 3 min.) – directed by Lisa J. Dooley
* "Voice" (2014, 4 min.) – directed by Mali Elfman
* "Somebody's Watching You" (4.5 min.) – directed by
Ben Rekhi
* "Trust" (2015, 2 min.) – directed by Jerry Pyle
* "The Lover" (2014, 5 min.) – directed by Nat Dinga
* "The Creepy F*cking Kid in Apartment B" (2014, 4 min.) – directed by Eric Pereira
* "A Dog and His Boy" (5 min.) – directed by Zeke Pinheiro
* "Quad" (2014, 5 min.) – directed by Nick Bragg
* "Let Me Go" (2.75 min.) – directed by
Glen Murakami
Glen Murakami is an American animator, director and producer best known for his work on '' Batman Beyond'', '' Teen Titans'', '' Teen Titans Go!'', '' Ben 10: Alien Force'' and '' Ben 10: Ultimate Alien''. Murakami co-created, produced, and develo ...
* "Mother" (3 min.) – directed by Zeke Pinheiro
* "Evil Voices Lie" (2014, 3 min.) – directed by Grant Olin
* "Paramnesia" (2014, 5 min.) – directed by
Rachel Noll
* "Bitter" (2014, 3 min.) – directed by Ned Ehrbar
* "Mr. Hendrix" (4 min.) – directed by Zeke Pinheiro
* "The Collection" (10 min.) – directed by Josh C. Waller
''Fun Size Horror: Volume Two'' (2015)
* "Prey", directed by Stephen Boyer
* "Playing Dead", directed by Ned Ehrbar
* "Conventional", directed by
Karen Gillan
Karen Sheila Gillan (; born 28 November 1987) is a Scottish actress. She gained recognition for her work in British film and television, particularly for playing Amy Pond, a primary companion to the Eleventh Doctor in the science fiction ser ...
* "And They Watched", directed by Vivian Lin
* "Initiation", directed by Michael May
* "The Great Corben", directed by
Mark Alan Miller
* "Perfect", directed by Taylor Phillips
* "Pillow Fright", directed by
Patrick Rea
* "Pinned", directed by Andrew Wesman
* "Kill Them Mommy", directed by Peter Chun Mao Wu
* "Last Laugh", directed by Zeke Pinheiro
See also
*''
Slash-in-the-Box'', a 2011 short film featured on the Fun Size Horror website
References
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Film collectives
Filmmaker cooperatives
Artist cooperatives in the United States
Horror fiction websites
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