Today’s episode, watchers, brings you not one but two examples of how everything is not exactly how it seems. In the shadows lurk the horrors nightmares are made of.

In AFTER THE SLASHER, you have a young woman covered in blood splatter in an interrogation room, two frustrated cops and an unbelievable story. Writer, director and editor, William Capps, taking a note from SCREAM, uses the common stereotypes from classic horror films; final girl is a virgin, deadly urban legend, sex=death, an abandoned house where a terrible crime occurred, a party on the anniversary of the terrible crime and then gives it a twist. While the final girl answers the detectives questions and details the horrible circumstances that brought her to that interrogation room, the female detective angrily yells at our heroine, “Your story doesn’t add up! It sounds like a bad slasher flick.” In response, the male detective utters,” I don’t know? If a movie were made about her story I’d kinda like to see it, could make a decent horror flick.” I would most DEFINITELY agree with the male detective. With excellent direction, editing, story and fantastic use of split screen in a scene, this is a little over 4 minute film that makes me want to watch a ninety minute plus feature, yesterday. Capps is a filmmaker whose work I will look forward to seeing in the future and makes an impact in a short amount of time.

In THE FIGURE, a woman out for a smoke has caught the attention of a dark figure that follows her home. Directors, producers, writers, Harry Bartholomew and Wesley Skelly drop the viewer into the world of a couple and their tumultuous life with an unwelcome guest that wants to make it a brief threesome. Rich and Jen are a duo with a LOT of problems. For the entirety of the short Rich is seen sitting on the couch drinking beers while Jen shows all the action as she does everything including cleaning up the dinner that was ruined by Rich’s incompetence, ordering a pizza, cutting the pizza up and plating it, serving the pizza to Rich, taking a shower, attempting to seduce Rich and taking a stand on their relationship. Any person that interacts with the couple is doomed and the audience sees ‘the figure’ take another life. As one might imagine, the unhappy couple won’t have to worry about staying unhappy for much longer in this just shy of 15 minute short. One of the things that struck me and stuck with me most was the score by Kevin Macleod, Plissken 31 and Rusty Apper. The music is reminiscent of what one may hear in a nightmare. Eerie, haunting and macabre with its looming simplicity, it adds a level of intensity from the opening credits to the very end.

Don’t smoke, watch out for what’s in the shadows and be careful of tales that are too bizarre to be true kids and you may make it to another day. Enjoy the watch, fiends!

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– Cati Glidewell

World of Death is the web series that fans of independent horror have been waiting for.  Featuring short horror films from all over the globe created by the largest variety of talent that a collection has ever been able to boast, WOD provides plenty of blood, guts, screams and laughs for all fans of the macabre.  And with episodes averaging around eight minutes in length, WOD is the perfect entertainment for a fan base constantly on the go.  Watch it anywhere, at any time, for FREE! New episodes premiere every Monday and Thursday at 10am CST.

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