Nevermore Film Festival 2025

THEY’RE COMING TO GET YOU, BARBARA! - US/Canada Shorts

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THEY’RE COMING TO GET YOU, BARBARA!

US/Canadian Shorts

(75 min)

 

DID YOU REMEMBER THE CAT?

(US, 2024, 18 min)

After surviving a house party-turned-horror film, Tara and Mitch’s escape is cut short when they realize… they forgot their cat. Now, the couple must return to the house and brave the eldritch monster that waits inside to save not only the cat, but their relationship itself.

Director: Daniel B Foster


ESCAPE

(US, 2024, 4 min)

Awakening on the floor of a destroyed suburban bedroom, we discover a global invasion has begun and we are not alone in the house.

Director: Lorenzo Manetti

 

IT DRAWS CLOSER

(US, 2024, 5 min)

A young woman discovers the creature she just sketched is in the bedroom with her.

Director: Joshua David Matthews

 

KILLING TIME

(US, 2024, 13 min)

After his car stalls on a deserted road, a theater teacher must fight for his life when he finds himself at the mercy of an aspiring serial killer with dreams of acting.

Director: Caroline Koonce

 

THE RED HOURGLASS

(US, 2024, 16 min)

Following a strange and unsettling encounter with a black widow spider, a young virgin woman finds herself inexplicably pregnant. After the birth of her child, a shadowy cult begins to gather outside her home, drawn to the child as if by dark forces.

Director: Bradley Charles Jones

 

SKEETER

(US, 2024, 4 min)

Every party has a buzz kill.

Director: Chris McInroy

 

SUNDOWNING

(US, 2024, 15 min)

A horror-with-a-heart short film following three members of an assisted living community – Shu-Hua, a stubborn, sharp-eyed new resident already trying to find her way out of this dump; Zach, a well-meaning but inexperienced young night nurse; and Gerry, a long-time old-timer facing down nightfall and the monsters it contains, armed with only a straw and a handful of peas.

Director: Faith Liu

          

SUNDOWNING

(US, 2024, 15 min)

A horror-with-a-heart short film following three members of an assisted living community – Shu-Hua, a stubborn, sharp-eyed new resident already trying to find her way out of this dump; Zach, a well-meaning but inexperienced young night nurse; and Gerry, a long-time old-timer facing down nightfall and the monsters it contains, armed with only a straw and a handful of peas.


Director Biography - Faith Liu

FAITH LIU is a writer and director based in Los Angeles. Homeschooled K-12 in Morganville, NJ, Faith's initial creative instincts led in a variety of directions: creating a documentary short on the shared experiences of Sudanese refugees and Polish expats; producing and directing a full-length production of Mozart's The Magic Flute set during the Cold War; and publishing in multiple academic journals on the subjects of J.R.R. Tolkien and Southern Gothic fiction. Ultimately, however, Faith honed in on filmmaking - she received her MFA in Screenwriting from USC as an Annenberg Graduate Fellow and the school’s inaugural T.C. Wang scholar, and became a member of both the CAPE New Writers Fellowship and Christina Hodson and Margot Robbie's Lucky Exports Pitch Program. She has worked on shows like HBO Max's WARRIOR and AMC's BETTER CALL SAUL; been hired to write for Blumhouse, FilmNation, Sony Pictures Animation, and Disney/Pixar; and enjoys loner characters finding community in unlikely places. She is repped by Verve and Redefine Entertainment.

  • Year
    2024
  • Runtime
    14 minutes
  • Country
    United States
  • Premiere
    North Carolina Premiere
  • Director
    Faith Liu
  • Screenwriter
    Faith Liu
  • Producer
    Rebecca Doyle
  • Cast
    Ken Takemoto, Richard Follin, Shu Lan Tuan
  • Cinematographer
    Brian Tang
  • Editor
    Erik Vogt-Nilsen
  • Production Design
    Tayler Nicholson