List of shorts

• Auburn Hills Breakdown
• Cheerbleeders
• Hobo with a Shotgun
• The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon
• How My Dad Killed Dracula
• The Legend of the 7 Bloody Torturers
• Marvel Zombies: The Movie
• The Trade
• Treevenge

• Excision
• First Kill
• Forecast
• Harvest Moon
• In The Wall

Shorts

THE HORRIBLY SLOW MURDERER WITH THE EXTREMELY INEFFICENT WEAPON

North Carolina Premiere

Best of Comedy-Horror Shorts

(USA/Canada, NR, 2009, 78 min)

There’s a scream and a giggle in every blood-splattered frame of these hilarious horror comedies.  From Canada comes Auburn Hills Breakdown, a goofy tale about what happens when Leatherface and his clan get stuck for the night in a yuppie, upscale neighborhood.  In Cheerbleeders, a pair of high school outcasts unleashes a timeless evil which turns one of them into…the most popular boy in school!  The fake trailer for Hobo With a Shotgun was the winner of the SXSW Robert Rodriguez Grindhouse Trailer Competition.  Clearly, for trees, Christmas isn't the exciting “peace on earth” that is experienced by most.  But this Christmas will be different, this Christmas the trees have had enough, this Christmas the trees will fight back in Treevenge.  Imagine if Spider-Man and The Hulk were turned into bloodthirsty zombies!  That’s exactly what happens in the live-action short, Marvel Zombies: The Movie.  The neighborhood kids don't believe that their friends' dad killed the Prince of Darkness.  Insisting on proving it, Dad picks up a shovel and starts to dig in How My Dad Killed Dracula.  During a bleak, post-apocalyptic future, two men discover something neither ever expected to meet: A real live woman!  But all is not quite what it seems in The Trade.  A young clerk is sent deep into the dungeon of the Seven Bloody Torturers, where he discovers they are about to face the most painful torture of all: a threat to their name-brand recognition in The Legend of the 7 Bloody Torturers.  And what can be said for The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon?  It's an amazing short film that's not only the wildest comedy of the year, but also the most inspired. More  »

Auburn Hills Breakdown (Canada, 2009, 17 min);
Cheerbleeders (US, 2008, 11 min);
Hobo with a Shotgun (Canada, 2007, 2 min);
The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon (US, 2009, 11 min);
How My Dad Killed Dracula (US, 2009, 14 min);
The Legend of the 7 Bloody Torturers (Canada, 2008, 5 min);
Marvel Zombies: The Movie (US, 2007, 2 min);
The Trade (US, 2008, 7 min);
Treevenge (Canada, 2008, 16 min)

Viewer’s Guide: Language, violence, and gore

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THEY’RE COMING TO GET YOU, BARBRA!

North Carolina Premiere

Best of Horror Shorts

(US, NR, 2008-09, 84 min)

These are some of the most mesmerizing and terrifying films submitted to Nevermore.  These shorts are meant to invoke shudders…and perhaps truly disturb you.  Winner of best horror short at this year’s Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas is Mike Williamson’s In The Wall: On the eve of the hottest New Year on record, a young pregnant wife happily prepares for the birth of her child.  But her secretive husband may have darker plans for the family.  In Harvest Moon, a couple on the brink of divorce struggle to rekindle their relationship as a van full of would-be burglars show up to rob them.  In Richard Bates, Jr.’s squirm-inducing Excision, Pauline has a younger sister who suffers from cystic fibrosis.  Aware that she will one day need a lung transplant, Pauline becomes convinced that she can perform the operation herself.  First Kill is a compelling tale about a lowly hit man who finds himself the target of a burgeoning serial killer.  And an old man travels back in time to undo a horrible tragedy that has haunted his entire life in Erik Courtney’s Forecast. More  »

Excision (US, 2009, 19 min);
First Kill (US, 2009, 16 min);
Forecast (US, 2008, 15 min);
Harvest Moon (US, 2008, 9 min);
In The Wall (US, 2008, 25 min)

Viewer’s Guide: Graphic violence, gore, language

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