2014 Red Rock Film Festival

Apart from the typical Hollywood horror film, this program of short thrillers instead examines the human psyche that can lead up to horrific acts. Shorts include: The Demon Deep in Oklahoma (34 min.) + Selfish People (이기자들) (30 min.) + The Only Man (21 min.) + Touch (13 min.)

The Demon Deep in Oklahoma
(USA) 34 min. (2013) Fiction Featurette
DIR Lance R. Marshall CAST Lance R. Marshall, Shannon Beeby, Carter Burch
The lonely lives of a brother and sister living in a remote country home are interrupted when a friend of the brothers stops by for a one night stay.  The three lives intertwine in a way that changes them forever as they battle the demon that lives deep in Oklahoma.

Selfish People (이기자들)
(South Korea) 30 min. (2013)  Fiction Featurette
DIR Jaebin Han CAST Eui-seol Hwang, Si-hyung Choi, Ye-won Kim
Making his living as a proxy driver, Eu-sul, takes a drunken lady named Se-rim home, only to find out that she is reported missing three days later. By two detectives he finds out that Se-rim’s house was where she used to live, and those detectives, knowing that Se-rim was the one who asked them for protection, tries to avoid the blame. Eu-sul, by chance, gets in Se-rim’s car again and finds a mysterious guy. 

The Only Man
(Spain) 21 min. (2013) Fiction Short
DIR Jos Man CAST Timothy Gibbs, Alfredo Meixide, Isaac Forteza, Molly Malcolm, Mitch Berman, Simon Brading
The story chronicles the last days of a man victim of an epidemic that has turned mankind into degenerate beings void of consciousness. Trying to keep his sanity he fights alone against the disease. Though strong in his will to overcome it, he will fall victim before he is aware of it.

Touch
(Australia) 13 min. (2014) Fiction Short
DIR Adrian Chiarella
Anna refuses to touch her son, Vincent, due to a rare skin condition that leaves him blistered and scarred. But when the boy begins telling her about an imaginary friend, she is confronted by her own fears of reaching out to people.