Midnighters V

Bounce House
Directed by Callie Bloem & Christopher J. Ewing
USA | 15 minutes | 2023

EAST COAST PREMIERE. Civilization has ended. Everyone Polly loves is dead. But at least she has a bounce house.

Butterscotch
Directed by Alexander Lee Deeds
USA | 7 minutes | 2023

US PREMIERE. A young bully bites off more than he can chew when he messes with the wrong old man in a nursing home.

Day of the Deb
Directed by Matthew Garvin & Rachel Whittle
USA | 10 minutes | 2023

EAST COAST PREMIERE. Just because it’s the end of the world doesn’t mean your best friend can’t make it worse for you.

Passive/Aggressive
Directed by Abiel Bruhn
USA | 9 minutes | 2023

WORLD PREMIERE. A passive-aggressive couple’s toxic energy becomes deadly.

Samaritan
Directed by John Poliquin
USA | 8 minutes | 2023

FLORIDA PREMIERE. A paranoid woman uses a safety app to track recent crime in her new neighborhood, but when an alert shows a skeleton from her past, she’ll learn that not even the app can keep her safe.

Seaborne
Directed by Dylan Ashton
USA | 6 minutes | 2023

FLORIDA PREMIERE. A seaside home invasion turns sinister when a young mother discovers her intruders have risen from beneath the sea.

The Spirit Became Flesh
Directed by Jesse Aultman
USA | 17 minutes | 2023

FLORIDA PREMIERE. In the middle-of-nowhere Alabama, Sam returns to his deeply religious hometown to visit his sister. To his horror, he discovers that his old community has turned into a fanatic cult that worships a sinister monster residing in their woods.

That’s Our Time
Directed by Alex Backes
USA | 10 minutes | 2022

FLORIDA PREMIERE. Danny is unable to make connections with the people in his life. Now his sympathetic therapist tries to help him realize that it’s more important to focus on the time you have left than the time you’ve already spent.

WAIT FOR IT
Directed by David J. Stieve
USA | 14 minutes | 2023

FLORIDA PREMIERE. Set within the same universe as BEHIND THE MASK: THE RISE OF LESLIE VERNON, “Wait For It” is a loving deconstruction of the slasher genre, seen from the perspective of a Survivor Girl living in the aftermath of her own encounter with a psycho-slasher killer.