5 Horrifying Videos That Blow It At The Finish Line

5 Behind The Door

The scene opens with a visibly disturbed teenage boy frantically locking the door of his house. From snippets on a handheld radio, we learn that whatever's outside is after him, and has likely already gotten his little brother. Luckily (for the boy), the unnamed monster must be invited before it can come inside. Luckily (for the monster), it has the ability to change its voice. So, assuming the voice of the young man's already ingested little bro, it tries to trick its way inside.

It's a simple premise pulled off superbly. Harrison Dowling's performance as the kid who doesn't want to face the monster outside, but also doesn't want to give up hope that it might be his little brother, manages to ratchet up the tension to 'holding in a fart on a first date' levels.

But It All Falls Apart When ...

Here's how the monster behind the door ultimately gets in:

That's right: The villain used kindergarten wordplay to fool his prey. Judging by the embarrassed look on the monster's face when we finally see it, it knew it wasn't exactly its proudest moment, either.

4 The Faeries Of Blackheath Woods

A little girl in the early 20th century discovers a tiny skeleton during a family picnic, and decides to wander off into the forest to investigate. She soon discovers that faeries are real, and that they aren't nearly as cute as Peter Pan would have you believe.

On the technical side, this short is beautifully filmed, and features CGI that could put some summer blockbusters to shame. You start to think this is all going to be a lovely Disney romp, then writer/director Ciaran Foy gives you a swift kick right in wonderment lobe:

And again here:

And finally here:

Then, after a gut-wrenching chase, the faeries finally catch up to the girl. As the swarm envelops her to -- eat her? Scratch her to death? We're not exactly certain, but whatever it is isn't going to involve either pixie dust or happy thoughts -- the camera pans away for an ominous shot of a tattered wooden sign reading "Blackheath Woods."

Fade to black.

But It All Falls Apart When ...

Wait, did we say "fade to black"? That was wishful thinking on our part. Instead, we get this:

Imagine if Alien ended like this: Right as Ripley drifts off into stasis, an Xenomorph jumps into frame, clangs its creepy little second-mouth on the camera lens, then starts whimpering. Audiences would've laughed it right out of film history. Admittedly, we would've been spared Prometheus -- but at what cost?

3 Door To Door

The short is the story of two burglars disguised as hipster Jehovah's Witnesses to find a house to, you know, burgle. After taking longer than the full runtime of most of the shorts on this list to establish that fairly simple setup, our two ne'er-do-wells split up -- one to the basement, one upstairs. Upstairs Hipster Witness discovers a book. Probably a good one. He liked it before it was cool.

Oh wait, no, it's this one:

The creepiness of the situation escalates as shots of Upstairs Hipster Witness flipping through the increasingly disturbing journal are interspersed with Basement Hipster Witness discovering bloody corpses (and then swiftly becoming one himself).

Right around the time the pages devolve into nothing more than souvenirs of blood and hair, Upstairs Hipster Witness finally realizes that they've broken into the exact wrong house. Too late, Upstairs Hipster Witness!

But It All Falls Apart When ...

This is the actual last shot of the movie, and it comes directly after the standoff seen above:

That's it. Twenty full seconds of a goofy-eyed cat clock, accompanied by a thump and a grunt. Ambiguity is an old movie standby, so presumably we're supposed to fill in the gaps. The director clearly wants us to fill in something awful, but it's just too goofy. Whatever the original intention was, it feels less like that and more like the camera guy was easily distractible and hey! Cat clock!

2 Alone

An attractive young woman, all alone in a big, empty house, fears that she's not ... wait for it ... alone. Candice Wilson's performance is enough to make you pause the movie and go flick on a lamp before you continue. The tension truly ramps up when a quick blur in the background reveals that there is undoubtedly someone inside this goddamn house:

And that's immediately followed by a raspy-voiced phone call from the intruder and a short-breathed dash out to her car for safety.

But It All Falls Apart When ...

Hey, what do you know? The intruder is already in the car.

Now, that might have been downright ghastly had 4chan and Anonymous not fully co-opted the Guy Fawkes mask already. But the simple fact of the matter is that the Guy Fawkes mask will never, ever be creepy. Well, not creepy in that way, anyway. Creepy in the 'just installed a webcam in your toilet' way, yes, but Jason Voorhees hockey mask creepy? No. Director Damaine Radcliff overlaid the credits of the film with a shot of our heroine receiving a post-mortem phone call from her boyfriend, whom our Anonymous killer is surely a much nicer guy than, of course.

1 Forever Light

A woman awakens in the dead of night to find something terrifying her horse. That wasn't a euphemism -- there's literally something untoward happening in her stable. She gets up to investigate. And props to the film for featuring a female horror protagonist who isn't some irredeemably stupid sexpot running headlong towards a killer's blade (in her panties). This character knows what's up -- she grabs her galoshes before going outside to investigate. Oh, and also a hunting rifle.

But every good protagonist must have a weakness, and in her case it's that she succumbed to a moment of late-night naivete and bought one of those dumbass windup flashlights from an infomercial.

The "oh shit" moment comes when, on her second round of setting down her rifle to crank a dumbass clockwork flashlight, something snatches the gun away from behind her. She glances into the stable and sees something straight out of an acid flashback from Satan's Ren Faire:

But It All Falls Apart When ...

Just after pagan girl does that creepy eyes-turn-white thing and just before the credits roll, our protagonist reels around to see ... a beacon-eyed, spinning, pig-headed cultist. That ... sounds way creepier in text than it is on video.

If this article makes you feel like telling Adam Koski "Oh yeah, let's see you do better!" this short film is what happens when he tries.

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