Honeymoon | After Dark: Strange Shorts | Local Sightings Film Festival 2021

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Disturbing the comfortable and comforting the disturbed with narrative and stop-motion films. This demented block is absurd, gory, thrilling, and full of dark laughs.

To accommodate evolving public health recommendations regarding COVID-19, we are adopting a hybrid virtual-and-in-person festival model for 2021. VIRTUAL, IN-PERSON, and HYBRID (virtual AND in-person) Festival Passes are available here.

⚠️ Please note: For the sake of public safety, NWFF will require both face-coverings and proof of vaccination from in-person audiences. We reserve the option to shift the festival to virtual-only on short notice.

A newlywed couple retreat to a cabin in the woods for an idyllic honeymoon, where their relationship, sanity, and lives are jeopardized by ghosts of the past–both real and imagined.

Year
2019
Runtime
24 minutes
Country
US

Director
Alex Furnas

7 films in package

The Butcher

When her ex-boyfriend unexpectedly shows up at her door for nefarious reasons, a newly-reformed woman must reveal a hidden truth to her naive husband.

Closed captions available

Glumhouse Chums Episode #1: Chum'body Talk to Me

The first episode of the Glumhouse Chums webseries features a ventriloquist doll who is lonely and desperate to make a puppet friend.

Closed captions available

Trash Mermaid

Through gruesome stop-motion animation, a prisoner seeks escape in this dark horror comedy, featuring original music by Depth Hoar.

Man of La Mansion

A suburban dad takes up screenwriting as a means of blunting his impending mid-life crisis and delirious struggles with artistic aspiration, homeowning, parenthood, and utter blindness particular to white male privilege.

Closed captions available

Severance

In a gory tale of corporate greed and expendable employees, one of two managers will be sacrificed for the greater good of a dystopian sales company.

Closed captions available

WET MOUTH

An inventory specialist at a weed shop gets asked to try a newly engineered product before it goes on sale.

Closed captions available

Honeymoon

A newlywed couple retreat to a cabin in the woods for an idyllic honeymoon, where their relationship, sanity, and lives are jeopardized by ghosts of the past–both real and imagined.

Disturbing the comfortable and comforting the disturbed with narrative and stop-motion films. This demented block is absurd, gory, thrilling, and full of dark laughs.

To accommodate evolving public health recommendations regarding COVID-19, we are adopting a hybrid virtual-and-in-person festival model for 2021. VIRTUAL, IN-PERSON, and HYBRID (virtual AND in-person) Festival Passes are available here.

⚠️ Please note: For the sake of public safety, NWFF will require both face-coverings and proof of vaccination from in-person audiences. We reserve the option to shift the festival to virtual-only on short notice.

A newlywed couple retreat to a cabin in the woods for an idyllic honeymoon, where their relationship, sanity, and lives are jeopardized by ghosts of the past–both real and imagined.

Year
2019
Runtime
24 minutes
Country
US

Director
Alex Furnas