Make a terrifying horror short and you just might end up getting a feature out of it. We’ve seen it happen time and time again over the years, and filmmaker Sam Evenson’s MORA is the latest viral horror short to get picked up for feature film expansion.
Variety reports that NEON (Longlegs, Parasite, Anora, The Monkey) has hired Sam Evenson to write and direct a feature length adaptation of his horror short MORA.
In MORA, which was uploaded online one year ago, “a displaced artist becomes haunted by a mysterious woman after using an AI model corrupted by dark web images.”
The 12-minute horror short currently has 4.3 million views on YouTube.
Steven Schneider (The Long Walk, Late Night With the Devil) and Roy Lee (Weapons, IT) of Spooky Pictures, Ken Kao and Josh Rosenbaum of Waypoint Entertainment’s Cweature Features (Longlegs), and Jessica Biel and Michelle Purple’s Iron Ocean Productions (The Sinner, Candy) will produce the feature version of MORA alongside Neon.
You watch the original MORA short film below.
Sam Evenson publishes his horror shorts on the YouTube channel Grimoire Horror.