The Things They Left Behind

Killer Workout

As personal trainer Joy tries to find purpose in working with her classist, racist clients, she's plagued by unrelenting, vivid fantasies of brutally murdering said clientele.

Ghost Squad

Growing up in a small town, Charlie, Alex and Nick weren't the most popular kids around after they formed "The Elite Monster Unit". Chasing notorious, mythical legends and ghosts was exciting to them, not "cool" to the other kids around. So they lived their lives on the outside of the "in" crowd. Making matters worse was Charlie's obvious crush on Brandy, one of the most popular kids in school and sister to one of the biggest bullies around. Trying to impress Brandy, Charlie accepts a dare from her brother Nick that says he and his friends must spend Halloween night in a house long rumored to be haunted.What seems to be an easy challenge quickly turns out to be a night of frights as Charlie, Nick and Alex find themselves in the fight of their lives trying to out smart (and outrun) their new nemesis, a ghost dog named Salty, who does whatever he can to make this the worst night of their lives...

Izzy Gets the F*ck Across Town

A woman at rock bottom must find her way across Los Angeles in order to crash her ex-boyfriend's engagement party.

Initiation

Five strangers are taken hostage and forced to fight to the death as a form of initiation into a bizarre, violent brotherhood.

Cat Cam

When two cat owners decide to put up pet cameras in their new home while they’re away on a trip, they soon make a terrifying discovery as to why their cat has been acting so strange.

Homecoming

A young woman returns home on the eve of the apocalypse to reunite with her estranged family and to finally tell her childhood crush that she was the love of her life.

Wife Wife

After two femme presenting queer women get married on the beach, a group of three cishet men tell them “congratulations.” As the couple thanks the group, the men propose that they have a drink together and that the couple should “go grab their husbands.” Via this stereotypical heteronormative assumption, the wives are transported to a hyper queer affirming world containing queer couples dressed in their wedding best, but before they can join these empowering beautiful humans the wives must defeat their own inner colonial heteronormative insecurities.

Girlfriend Girlfriend

"Holy homophobia Batwoman, we better use the scissor symbol to assemble the team!" A queer woman's mind is blown by her new coworker's bold question in this experimental short film.

13 Minutes of Horror: Sci-Fi Horror

Sci-Fi Horror has led us into the depths of fear and back again, from the mundane to the fantastical. It's the fear of the unknown, the fear of the depths of space, and the fear of where our technology will lead. Here, the winners of Nyx Horror Collective's 13 Minutes of Horror 2022 60-Second Film Challenge lead you through the wicked, the weird and the worrisome all within one terrifying minute. =