Above: Autonomous's Domenic Jungling and Erin Áine beside the series one-sheet. 📷 Screamify® Images / Jeremy Harris
NASHVILLE — The marquee screens inside Sidecar Bar looped horror imagery on Saturday night while a red carpet ran toward the door, and for two hours the room belonged to the people who make scary things in Tennessee.
The occasion was Screamify's launch of MICRO HORRORS™, an original slate of vertical, episodic horror — complete stories told in one to three minutes, framed for a phone held upright. It is a bet on form as much as content: that the grammar of horror, which has always thrived in compression, is suited to the shortest format there is.
The opening slate spans a driverless rideshare that will not give up its passenger (AUTONOMOUS, directed by Kyle Valle and starring Erin Áine and Domenic Jungling of Big Squid Productions), a friendly evening of party games that turns lethal (GAME NIGHT: SURVIVE THE SLASHER, written and directed by Trent Duncan, with Connor Sherman, Erin Taylor, Aubrey Nicole Plummer, Morgan Flanagan, and Cheyenne Autumn Hess), and a modern reinvention of the mirror summons (SCARY MARY). Weekly episodes are promised.
The launch drew 80 guests — cast, crew, area filmmakers, creators. "That's the community these stories come from," a company representative said, "and it's who they're made for."
Micro Horrors is streaming on the Screamify app and at screamify.com. Photographs from the evening (Screamify® Images / Jeremy Harris) are cleared for editorial use and may be downloaded — pictured: Autonomous's Domenic Jungling and Erin Áine beside the series one-sheet — from the press kit.
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