They are saying movie festivals are supposed to put some leaves in your poster, however “Dream Creep” is the one Oscar-qualifying quick nonetheless proudly selling that it made an viewers member throw up.
Written and directed by Carlos A.F. Lopez, this buzzy quick horror movie debuted at Sundance 2024 earlier than it was chosen as one in all seven titles within the competition’s theatrical tour. Clocking in at simply 12 minutes and 34 seconds, the dazzling style snippet stars Sidney Jayne Hunt and Ian Edlund as spouses caught in a reverse “Nightmare on Elm Road”.
When a voice emanating from contained in the sleeping lady’s head instructs her husband NOT to wake her — however as a substitute seize a meat thermometer from the kitchen and do one thing unthinkable to her ear — he’s pressured to decide that would kill them each. The stomach-churning outcome begins streaming December 1 on MUBI (fittingly, the identical platform now harboring Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance.”)
“Dream Creep” was chosen for greater than 65 movie festivals, together with SXSW, Fantasia, BFI London, and extra. The movie acquired a number of awards from Scariest Brief at Overlook to Worst Nightmare at Palm Springs ShortFest. Lopez additionally received the Vimeo: Particular Jury Prize for Directing at Sundance and appeared in Filmmaker Journal’s 2024 listing of New Faces in Movie.
Producers Megan Leonard and Jonathan Caso, particular results designer Lael Rogers, and author/director Lopez spoke with IndieWire concerning the making of “Dream Creep” earlier this yr. The collaborators enthused closely concerning the Seattle filmmaking scene, defined how they pulled off DIY physique horror in Lopez’s bed room, and additional explored the boundless potential of this script’s core idea.
In an e mail replace to IndieWire, Lopez stated that he had “accomplished a draft” of the feature-length model of “Dream Creep” a few month in the past and is now “toiling away to get all of the little devils within the particulars.”
“As with the quick, I would like it to have the ability to stand alone whereas additionally leaving lots of little tendrils to observe right into a multi-dimensional Dream Creep freakout continuum,” Lopez wrote. “There’s loads of ear peril but additionally some photographs fired at our present period of AI, misinformation and gaslighting pitfalls that appear to be bobbing up on the every day. Finally simply making an attempt to get an OXO Meat Thermometer model partnership ;)”
“Dream Creep” begins streaming December 1 on MUBI. Watch the teaser under: