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[Halloween Treat] Watch the Guillermo del Toro-Produced Short “Shhh”!

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Freddy Chávez Olmos and Shervin Shoghian’s award-winning fantasy-horror short film “Shhh” has been released online, just in time for Halloween!

“‘Shhh’ is a tale about a young boy, who uses his imagination to overcome his monstrous bully at night. Tired of being scared, Guillermo eventually takes matters into his own hands.”

The short is inspired by the lucid dreams of director Guillermo del Toro during childhood.

After viewing the film, Director Guillermo del Toro described “Shhh” as having “strong visuals and solid atmosphere.”

“Shhh” screened globally in over 30 international film festivals so far, spanning across 6 countries, including France, United States, Japan, Mexico, Spain and Canada.

The short received recognition for the team’s hard work, including winning:

Best Short at the 2013 Leo Awards in Canada
Best Production Design at the 2013 Leo Awards in Canada
Best Fantasy/Sci-Fi Short at the 2012 Rhode Island International Film Festival in the U.S.
Best Short Film at the 2012 Festival Internacional de Cine Puebla in Mexico

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New ‘Sleepy Hollow’ Movie in the Works from Director Lindsey Anderson Beer

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Paramount is heading to Sleepy Hollow with a brand new feature film take on the classic Headless Horseman tale, with Lindsey Anderson Beer (Pet Sematary: Bloodlines) announced to direct the movie back in 2022. But is that project still happening, now two years later?

The Hollywood Reporter lets us know this afternoon that Paramount Pictures has renewed its first-look deal with Lindsey Anderson Beer, and one of the projects on the upcoming slate is the aforementioned Sleepy Hollow movie that was originally announced two years ago.

THR details, “Additional projects on the development slate include… Sleepy Hollow with Anderson Beer attached to write, direct, and produce alongside Todd Garner of Broken Road.”

You can learn more about the slate over on The Hollywood Reporter. It also includes a supernatural thriller titled Here Comes the Dark from the writers of Don’t Worry Darling.

The origin of all things Sleepy Hollow is of course Washington Irving’s story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” which was first published in 1819. Tim Burton adapted the tale for the big screen in 1999, that film starring Johnny Depp as main character Ichabod Crane.

More recently, the FOX series “Sleepy Hollow” was also based on Washington Irving’s tale of Crane and the Headless Horseman. The series lasted four seasons, cancelled in 2017.

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