GASP! is proud to present this short film showcase that highlights some of the best female filmmakers working in horror today, filmmakers who you will be sure to want to keep an eye out for after this showcase. Amongst the many impressive films being shown, this showcase features Skinamarink levels of strange and terrifying in Wormy, killer mannequins in Fashion Kills, the horrors of sleep paralysis in Nocturna and Lynchian eeriness within the final film, Sauvage. 

The Auteur

Northern UK Premiere

Written and Directed by Bethany White, Co-Written by Patrick Crellin – Starring Paloma Anastacia, Jordan Perry, Patrick Crellin – UK, 2023, 9 minutes 

A male film writer begins to write his perfect, objectified female character to terrorise. However, he's not prepared for her to fight back... 

Through the Meat Grinder

UK Premiere

Written and Directed by Abby Brenker – Starring Billy Keenly, Rosemary Stillborn – USA, 2023, 3 minutes 

A woman rebels against her husband's expectations. 

Fed

Northern UK Premiere

Written and Directed by Michael Bartolomeo, Co-Written by John Paul Monge and Megan Kortvelesy – Starring Kirra Hughes, Angelica Gomez – USA, 2023, 8 minutes  

In this stop-motion fantasy tale, a talented chef meets her match when a mysteriously implacable food critic visits her restaurant. 

Red Yellow Blue

UK Premiere

Written and Directed by Julia E. Cooke – Starring Talya Topzand, Sydney Stirewalt – USA, 2023, 18 minutes 

A girl gets haunted by her own demons as we follow her through her colorful, surreal, bizarre descent into insanity.

Non-Existence

UK Premiere

Written and Directed by Kamila Soszyńska – Poland, 2024, 5 minutes 

After a date with his new girlfriend, Jacek walks down the corridor towards his apartment. On his way, he encounters a girl who appears in various forms, leaving him uncertain of her existence. 

Absolution

International Premiere

Written and Directed by Jill Yapsuga – Starring Erica Sylvester – USA, 2024, 3 minutes 

Eike Granford discovers what happens to good men who do bad things. 

Fashion Kills

International Premiere

Written and Directed by Temara Heta – Australia, 2023, 3 minutes 

Rachel, a fashion student, encounters an evil presence in her house while doing her studies - what will happen to her? 

Wormy

UK Premiere

Written and Directed by Jaycee Lalabi Flowers – USA, 2023, 16 minutes 

A fever dream of gut twisting events writhes inside this film. When a girl left in the hands of an omnipresent being is forced to face the inevitable. Someone bopped little bunny foo foo on the head. 

Aamon

UK Premiere

Written and Directed by Cris Gambín and Toni Pinel – Starring Mercè Rovira, Jordi Reverté, Gerard Pinel, Arnau Pinel – Spain, 2023, 8 minutes 

For Eric and Adrià, everything is a game. For Joan and Emilia, this may be the last match. 

Nocturna

World Premiere

Written and Directed by Ed Edwards, Co-Directed by Kim Ryan – Starring Stephanie Tripp, Jamaicia James – UK, 2023, 5 minutes 

Jamaicia, a woman in her early twenties, is visited in the small hours by an older sleep demon, ‘Nocturna’. Frozen in fear but with her eyes wide open, Nocturna taunts the deep-sleeping Jamaicia with a terrifyingly dark monologue. 

Dare!

World Premiere

Written and Directed by Martina Boothes – Starring Patsy Detroit, Lisa Sanchez, Wren Brewer, Abby Young – USA, 2023, 11 minutes 

A horror comedy takes us inside of an unworldly reality series that helps a desperate mother with disobedient teen daughter by escorting her to a terrifying, scared straight challenge... 

Sauvage

Northern UK Premiere

Written and Directed by Ornella Barbé – France, 2023, 20 minutes 

Paul Rive, young writer, comes back to his hometown to tell his former lover, Wanda, that they'll never meet again. The torments of his old life in this austere and sordid place comes back to the surface ; swallowing him into the consuming passions of the woman he loved.