8 min · English · Horror · Thriller
Dylan Clark's eight-minute horror: a young woman giving a presentation on a religious painting starts to doubt what she can see in it.
Horror short films
83 Horror short films in the cafe, running 3 to 55 minutes. Many are suspenseful or chilling. They span 11 languages. Each is a complete standalone short film, chosen by the cafe and played through its original video provider.
13 min · English · Comedy · Drama · Horror · Fantasy
For Owen, resisting a compulsion feels as if the world could end. This dark comedy takes that fear literally, mixing an everyday struggle with wildly escalating stakes.
20 min · Malayalam · Horror · Thriller
Budget Lab's Malayalam horror-thriller: three friends drinking in an abandoned ancestral house find their evening turning into something they never planned.
22 min · Malayalam · Thriller · Horror
An offer to walk an elderly woman home takes Vishnu somewhere he did not expect. Choose Kavullakandi for a Malayalam horror story that turns an act of kindness into a chilling encounter.
18 min · English · Science fiction · Horror · Thriller
A missing body leads a physician to a secret experiment on the edge of life and death. A seventeen-minute English sci-fi horror.
17 min · Tamil · Horror · Comedy · Thriller
Two roommates start noticing strange things happening in their room. A sixteen-minute Tamil horror-comedy that keeps you guessing.
10 min · No dialogue · Horror · Thriller
A wordless ten-minute horror: a woman wakes on a curved slope above an endless drop and has to hold on. Simple, vertiginous and hugely watched.
13 min · English · Horror · Drama
A family dinner becomes impossible to separate from grief. Choose The Dinner After for a horror short where the feelings Angela tries to escape will not stay outside the room.
5 min · No dialogue · Animation · Comedy · Horror
A wordless five-minute animation in which feeding the ducks turns strange, then grotesque. Darkly funny, and not for anyone squeamish about birds.
7 min · English · Horror · Thriller
A family has one rule: keep ignoring the dangerous presence in the house. A seven-minute English horror that tests your nerves.
14 min · English · Horror · Comedy · Thriller
A locksmith desperate for a good review finds something alarming behind a wardrobe door. A fourteen-minute English horror-comedy.
16 min · English · Horror · Thriller
A couple receive a mysterious box with instructions that make looking away dangerous. A sixteen-minute English horror that plays with what you can't see.
31 min · Tamil · Horror
Settle in for a longer Tamil ghost story. A pick for viewers in the mood for horror and suspense.
11 min · Malayalam · Horror · Thriller
A man clears a fallen tree from a lonely road, and the next day it's back in the same place. A ten-minute Malayalam chiller.
33 min · Malayalam · Horror · Thriller
An ancestral home turns a family reunion into a source of dread. Try this Malayalam horror short for a homecoming that becomes frighteningly unfamiliar.
19 min · Malayalam · Horror · Thriller · Drama
An elderly woman's longing to meet her granddaughter takes an unsettling turn in this Malayalam horror. Eighteen eerie minutes.
8 min · English · Horror
Aaron Fradkin's eight-minute English horror with Valeska Miller as a ballerina whose reflection stops following her lead. Beautifully choreographed dread.
13 min · English · Horror
Felipe Vargas's English horror for Dark Fun: a boy in an orphanage discovers the shadowy creature that collects the children's teeth, and wants more. Twelve chilling minutes.
3 min · No dialogue · Horror
Getting ready for bed, a woman switches off the hall light and sees a silhouetted figure at the far end of the hallway. Each time she flicks the light back off, the figure appears closer.
4 min · English · Horror
A three-minute horror in which an ice cream van turns an ordinary treat into something threatening. Quick and nasty, in the best way.
26 min · Gujarati · Horror · Comedy
Jeetu Rall's Gujarati horror-comedy sequel: Ashu is back for Navratri, ready this time, but destiny has a chilling night planned. Twenty-six minutes of festive frights.
10 min · Malayalam · Thriller · Horror
Strange nights, an invisible woman and clues to follow—13 D offers a short Malayalam mystery with a supernatural edge.
33 min · Hindi · Horror
A new city should mean a fresh start. Try 2am for a Hindi hostel-haunting story in which the past refuses to stay quiet.
12 min · Telugu · Horror · Comedy
Would a haunted house still seem a bargain with a strict morning deadline? Try 7.30 AM for Srinu's unsettling new-home problem.
4 min · English · Thriller · Horror
A walk to the car becomes a confrontation with fear. Try Afraid for a three-and-a-half-minute thriller about the anxieties that can follow women through ordinary routines.
12 min · Malayalam · Horror · Science fiction
Two policemen arrive at an abandoned house in Kerala with orders to close a reopened case: a young woman found dead there in 2022, to be filed as a routine suicide before her family's questions and the court can push further. An old caretaker leaves them food and a single warning not to light a particular lamp. Ignoring it traps them in a night that will not end, in this restrained, single-location supernatural time-loop horror.
10 min · Tamil · Comedy · Horror
A man who comes face to face with a ghost starts telling her the story of his love life. The female ghost is moved by his flashback, but she vanishes the moment he asks her one particular question.
9 min · Hindi · Horror · Thriller
A lonely road and a house that will not let the past rest set the scene for this atmospheric Hindi horror short.
26 min · Tamil · Horror
Join four friends on a journey with an ominous turn. Try this Tamil short when you are in the mood for independent horror.
19 min · Hindi · Horror · Comedy
Dhawan's Hindi horror-comedy: a miser can't resist a trail of scattered money, even as it leads him towards something unearthly. Eighteen minutes of greed and goosebumps.
15 min · Malayalam · Horror
From the Navarasam anthology, this Malayalam horror explores bhayanakam, the rasa of fear, through Kerala folklore. Fourteen atmospheric minutes; its makers recommend headphones.
12 min · English · Horror · Comedy
A vet is summoned to a rural Irish village where a newborn calf will not stop screaming, and the locals treat him with suspicion.
17 min · No dialogue · Animation · Horror · Drama
Canis - an award-winning puppet animated short film by Marc Riba & Anna Solanas about a boy who survives isolated in a house constantly besieged by a horde of stray dogs.
8 min · English · Horror · Drama
A father's last mission gives this zombie story its heart. Choose the original Cargo short for a brief survival tale where protecting a child matters more than anything else.
9 min · Hindi · Horror · Thriller
Turn a familiar tea break into a little suspense. Try this brief Hindi horror short when you're in the mood for something unsettling.
36 min · Marathi · Horror
Rahul Wadkar's Marathi horror draws on Maharashtrian folklore about the chakva, a force that makes night travellers lose their way. Thirty-five minutes in a dark forest you won't want to be lost in.
13 min · Malayalam · Horror
Try a Malayalam horror short made in Halifax by Jebin Benny and his team. A pick for viewers in the mood for independent supernatural suspense.
56 min · Malayalam · Horror · Thriller
A father's search for justice takes a supernatural turn. Try this Malayalam horror-crime story for a longer short steeped in revenge and family bonds.
17 min · Malayalam · Thriller · Horror
A voice from the past unsettles the life Joan has built. Try Cross for a Malayalam psychological thriller about buried truths and difficult choices.
9 min · Malayalam · Horror
Try a Malayalam horror short told in mockumentary style. A pick for viewers who like fiction to borrow the look of a documentary.
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