Peekers

They're living right next door! Across the street! Now they're in your home! I saw this dark little beauty this past September at the 2008 Dark Carnival Film Festival in Bloomington, Ill. It scared the living daylights out of me! No blood. No gore. Just good old fashioned 'creeps' by taking the 'average' everyday suburban neighborhood and turning it into a children's game-gone-nightmare. And the old man's wife at the top of the stairs?? Yikes! Chilling! Now I know why I don't deal with my own neighbors! Excellent short film from a very clever director. I can't wait to see what he creates next! This little horror flick is must see- look for it!

I read another person's review on this film and he mentioned that it had a relatively low budget, but I do not think it shows. It looks like a film that could be showed at the theater. To bad they do not make full length horror movies like this as this is another case of a short film I would like to see developed more. The actors did a good job and so to did the writer or writers and the whole film crew. There was another short film I saw called "There Are Monsters" that was like this in that it made me really want to see more, and they both were kind of creepy. Actually very creepy. It starts off rather like some sort of light comedy or something as a person is making his breakfast. They get done and it is revealed that it is a man. The music is still light as he switches on the television and proceeds to watch the news. Well one of his neighbors proceeds to knock on the door and ask a favor. He wishes his neighbor to come over to his house and look at something that is off. The guy is perturbed, but agrees to it and as he walks over to his neighbors house the music takes on a darker tone though still light in a way as well, kind of a subtle change that I rather liked. Well from then on the film gets really creepy and the last scene is just great. All in all a nice short film where its main fault is that I want to see more!

I saw this short at Dead by Dawn 2008 Edinburgh's horror film fest, I'm surprised by the votes it currently has here on IMDb. There was an audience vote at DBD to choose the best short horror of the festival, this came third. Personally I voted it to win. It's very low budget yes, but it affected my psyche a lot more than many of the ridiculously high budgeted shorts on display which I'll never think about again. This short really freaked me out! The idea is really simple but effective. Reminded me of some nightmares i've had. The actors involved did a good job too in realising this story, especially that guys wife at the top of the stairs!! eek! Very Twilight Zoneseque which can only be a good thing.

I'd like to say bravo!

Absolutely scared me to death. Very well put together and a year later I was still getting flashes of the scene at the top of the stairs. Would love to see a full length version.

I saw "Peekers" at this year's Shriekfest out in LA where I was also a triple finalist in the screenplay categories, and I have to say it was one of my favorite shorts of the whole festival. It was short, simple, with no expensive special effects or fancy locations and yet it creeped the living daylights out of me. Something about that shot of "the Peekers" with the oddness of splitting the face in half, the weird feel, the inexplicableness of it, and that first actress I mean it just nailed it casting-wise with her. It was awesome. It reminded me a lot of the feel you get after reading a really good Stephen King short story.