One of our favorite categories to check out at film festivals are the Midnight Shorts section. This section features “horror, gore, and dark comedy.”

SXSW features a lot of awesome films in their Midnight Short Competition and you can check out this year’s lineup below:

Apotemnofilia (Spain)
Director/Screenwriter: Jano Pita, Producer: Clinton Uriarte
It is opening night, the theater is crowded and Clara, the leading actress, refuses to leave her dressing room. (US Premiere)

The Bleacher
Directors/Screenwriters: Nicole Daddona, Adam Wilder, Producers: Zeus Kontoyannis, Adam Wilder
The disappearance of her sock at a local laundromat sends a fragile Rita over the edge. Hellbent on finding it, she searches deep and gets sucked into a washing machine, entering an otherworldly cycle from which she may never escape. (Texas Premiere)

Dream Creep
Director/Screenwriter: Carlos A.F. Lopez, Producers: Megan Leonard, Bobby McHugh, Jonathan Caso, Zeus Kontoyannis
A couple awakens in the night to sounds emanating from an unlikely orifice. (Texas Premiere)

Inner Demons
Director/Screenwriter: Jasmine J. Johnson, Producer: Mary Bonney
Mya’s forced to confront the darkness lurking within. (Texas Premiere)

Lullaby (United Kingdom)
Director/Screenwriter/Producer: Chi Thai
A refugee is forced to confront her guilt. (World Premiere)

Make Me a Pizza
Director: Talia Shea Levin, Screenwriters: Talia Shea Levin, Woody Coyote, Producers: Kara Grace Miller, Talia Shea Levin
Bored Housewife seduces Hot Pizza Guy for free pizza, but is desire worth $29.99? (World Premiere)

Meat Puppet (United Kingdom)
Director/Screenwriter: Eros V, Producers: Leah Draws, Masha Thorpe
On the day he promised his girlfriend he’d grow up, a man-child inadvertently traps his soul inside a puppet. (World Premiere)

Tight
Director/Screenwriter: Jessica Barr, Producers: Jessica Barr, Sarah Whelden, Kelly Wilcox, Nate Comay
A woman grappling with difficulty finding sexual pleasure after childbirth falls back on an old coping habit. (World Premiere)

Transylvanie (France)
Director: Rodrigue Huart, Screenwriters: Rodrigue Huart, David Alexander Cassan, Axel Würsten, Producer: Lucie Vigier
Ewa is a 10-year-old girl living in a high building in a quiet town. She’s an odd, lonely child and for good reason: she’s convinced of being a vampire. (Texas Premiere)

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