Short Films: Midnighters IV

Midnighters IV

DATE: Friday, August 7
TIME: Video On Demand
VENUE: Digital Screening Room

A celebration of new works from cinematic scaremongers that bring nightmares into waking hours with thrills, chills, and spills:

The Bogeyman
Directed by Kenneth Thompson
USA | 19 minutes | 2026
WORLD PREMIERE. An innocent game becomes a grisly bloodbath when teenagers trespass on cursed grounds of an abandoned miniature golf course and find themselves stalked and slashed by a mysterious maniac.

 

Bokeh
Directed by Ivan Salcedo
USA | 8 minutes | 2026
FLORIDA PREMIERE. A photographer finds herself trapped in a darkroom with a malevolent spirit.

 

Earworm
Directed by Ben Baraad
USA | 11 minutes | 2026
WORLD PREMIERE. After spending all day in bed doom scrolling, Reed stumbles upon a video of a mother “unaliving” her baby while humming the same 4 notes over and over and over. Now every sound that Reed hears in his everyday life morphs into those 4 notes, and with each note, the bloody Mother draws closer.

 

Imprint
Directed by Ran Jing
USA | 15 minutes | 2026
SOUTHEAST US PREMIERE. In a near-future society where knowledge is traded like currency, a desperate mother purchases expertise from an immigrant to give her daughter an advantage, only to discover the unsettling price of such progress.

 

The Last Draft
Directed by Nicholas Guilak
USA | 12 minutes | 2025
SOUTHEAST US PREMIERE. Trapped in his isolated Hollywood Hills penthouse, acclaimed novelist James Harper wrestles with a crushing deadline and a crippling case of writer’s block. But as the pages remain blank, eerie knocks echo through the walls, whispers haunt the silence, and his own reflection begins to disobey him. As shadows seep from the corners of his mind and onto the page, James is pulled into a terrifying descent where the line between fiction and reality dissolves.

 

The Me in the TV
Directed by Gordon Phillips
USA | 7 minutes | 2025
SOUTHEAST US PREMIERE. After moving into a new apartment, a young woman discovers an old television broadcasting a live feed of her from an impossible angle. As the image begins to behave strangely, she suspects it may be more than just a broadcast—and far more than just her.
My Severed Arm
Directed by Casey de Fremery
USA | 9 minutes | 2026
FLORIDA PREMIERE. A woman tries to escape a serial killer using DIY videos, but the internet won’t stop trying to sell her things first.

 

Nightfall
Directed by Zac Villanueva
USA | 17 minutes | 2025
FLORIDA PREMIERE. On a stormy night a guilt-ridden teen visits a grieving mother, looking for some kind of connection. As buried grief resurfaces he’s drawn into a psychological reckoning that blurs reality – a final act of shocking vengeance completes the cycle.

 

Prey for Us
Directed by Zoe Kerr
USA | 6 minutes | 2025
FLORIDA PREMIERE. After a house party, a woman leaves with a charming stranger, only to share unsettling truths that shatter their perceptions of each other.

 

The Witchening
Directed by MK Kopp
USA | 8 minutes | 2026
FLORIDA PREMIERE. A babysitter dismisses a child’s bedtime story about a vengeful witch, but soon learns it’s all true…

 

Worst Thing You’ve Ever Done
Directed by PJ Germain
USA | 17 minutes | 2025
FLORIDA PREMIERE. HIGH SCHOOL REALLY SUCKS… and no one knows that better than best friends Aaron and Keith. So when they set out to crash the last graduation party of the summer, emotions fly high and the culture clash of teenagers find themselves playing a simple game that has dire consequences.
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July 28, 2026