Blue View Cinema presents
A horror anthology
Five films. Five senses. Five different ways of being afraid, made by five sets of hands.
Film 01 / 05 · Quick & Painless
Shot & in post · Kickstarter funded
Four films in development
Five senses · five directors
I / Touch · Shot
He was born unable to feel pain.
Eugene has congenital insensitivity to pain — he has never felt it, and he never will. The first film in the anthology is in the can, funded by strangers on Kickstarter.
Written by Ryan Russell Garcia Steele
Shot & in post · Kickstarter funded
II / Sight
What the dark shows you when you finally look up.
A caregiver who never puts her phone down wakes in a lightless void, where human shapes strain toward one burning light. She has a dying battery, a way out she can't see, and a fire back home she doesn't yet know she started.
In development · Beat sheet locked · 20 min
From the beat sheet · Debate, 6:00
She wakes in a dark, featureless void. Humanoid figures strain toward one intense light, and she cannot tell whether they are a threat or a warning. Every attempt to speak fails.
Beat sheet locked · 20 min
Stills to come — the void is being built
Synopsis withheld
It begins with a sound you recognise
and it is coming from the water.
We are keeping this one quiet on purpose
Bring headphones
III / Sound
Something in the water learned to sound like someone you love.
We're holding the synopsis back on this one. What we'll say: it is the film in the anthology built to be heard, and we'd rather you met it in a dark room with the door shut than read about it here.
In development · Synopsis withheld
IV / Smell
The blanket still smells like her.
A father's daughter has been missing for years. Her blanket is the last piece of her that still carries a scent, and every breath of it brings her back for a second. Then the blanket gets washed.
In development · Beat sheet locked
From the beat sheet · Midpoint
The blanket is stained, and then it is washed. The scent is gone. He has lost the last part of her that was still in the room.
Beat sheet locked
Stills to come — Abby’s room
From the synopsis · Act three
Malik inspects the wound on his face and finds the flesh peeling away, revealing something underneath that was always going to be there.
Script draft two
Contract etched into the butcher block
V / Taste
Premium cuts, from down south.
Malik's vegan restaurant is three months from closing when his new landlord offers him meat he shouldn't serve. He says no until he can't afford to. Business gets very good, and then the dreams start, and then his face starts coming off.
In development · Script draft two
Support the anthology
Quick & Painless was funded on Kickstarter and shot over four days. Four films are written and ready to go the same way. Backing one is the fastest way to get it in front of a camera.
Producing: Blue View Cinema
Crew & cast enquiries welcome
Where it came from
Spin the wheel. You get a sense. You have four weeks to make a five-minute horror film about it, and $2,000 on the table for whoever does it best.
That's the whole rule set, and it's why this anthology exists. Constraints are cheaper than money and they work faster.
Hear about the next spin
Not before. Not weekly. Not ever about anything else.
You're on the list.
Next word arrives when Quick & Painless locks.