Brimming with twisted humor and tales of terror, this year’s collection of midnight shorts is worth staying up for. Nick Moran stars in “82” as a postman who’s been casing his neighborhood, but his quiet suburb isn’t all it seems; a twisted history (and dystopian future) for the panda bear is envisioned in the animated “Pandas;” an elementary school class plays an April Fool’s joke that goes horribly, horribly wrong in “Fool’s Day;” and a quaint 1950s dentist hides a horrible secret from his patients in “The Root of the Problem.”
82 Calum MacDiarmid | UK | 2012 | 6 min.
The Captain Nash Edgerton, Spencer Susser | Australia, USA | 2013 | 6 min.
Dance Till You Drop Juan Cardarelli, Eric M. Levy | USA | 2012 | 3 min.
Fool's Day Cody Blue Snider | USA | 2013 | 19 min.
Oh Sheep! Gottfried Mentor | Germany | 2012 | 7 min.
Pandas Matúš Vizár | Czech Republic, Slovakia | 2013 | 12 min.
Root Caleb Johnson | USA | 2012 | 12 min.
The Root of the Problem Ryan Spindell | USA | 2013 | 14 min.
Yardbird Michael Spiccia | Australia | 2012 | 13 min.