So we’re back to the Halloween Horror Nights short film competition with another one of their entrants, Behind You.

It’s one of the oldest tropes in the industry–there’s always  something nasty lurking over your shoulder.  And chances are, you’re going to have a prophetic dream about it too.  But what happens when your dream isn’t quite right?

I have to hand it to these guys right off.  They took a trope almost as old as horror movies themselves, took a ninety degree turn up into non-euclidean space and came out on the other side smelling like roses.  What they’ve done here is actually going to be a pretty big surprise.  Sure, there’s only one or two scares here, but for a two minute movie, that makes for some incredible scare density.  One a minute is almost Fewdio grade, and for a bunch of amateurs shooting video in their bedrooms, they definitely come out ahead.

The Screenhead Ten Scale, thusly, hands this creepy little pocket of amateur joy an eight out of ten for a job well done, if over far too soon.