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The season's sacrifice draws nigh
After being pursued through the snow by a masked stranger, a woman becomes entangled in a dark year-end ritual.
Winter's Blood
2019 Directed by Parker Brennon
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26 Oct 2019
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if you, like me, desperately miss that eerie stag-man from hannibal, you'll be pleased to know that he is alive and well and thriving in this taut little 4 minute independent horror short! though that's not a ton of time to establish the diegetic world and characters, filmmaker parker brennon and team make the most out of it using vivid lighting and ominous visual cues: the chime of the grandfather clock, the primal dread of a stag skull, the crimson of holly berries juxtaposed against the icy-blue winter all portend something otherworldly is coming, and there will be blood. WINTER'S BLOOD, THAT IS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Tight horror script. Loved the sound, score, and acting. Shorts can be hit or miss sometimes, but this was solid.
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Another one of my horror shorts has hit YouTube. It's a four-minute nightmare, filled with snow and saturated colors. Jonathan Snipes (composer of Starry Eyes, Room 237, and Below the Trees) created the music. Drop us a rating here on Letterboxd, after you watch 🖤 youtu.be/_1n-rQxrYNM
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My boy Parker comes through with a cavalcade of ambiance and atmos right the hell up my alley. I was unwise to not watch this sooner and I Can’t wait to see more!
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Winter’s Blood is a short film from fellow lb’er Parker Brennon and it’s quite frankly amazing. Steeped in deep hues of bright red and icy blue, filled with a palpable sense of dread, and hey there’s a Christmas tree which means this is a holiday horror and that’s one of my very favorite subgenres! Plus it has a genuinely eerie score from Jonathan Snipes?! Gtfo out!
It’s set at an obviously secluded house that gives off a deliciously creepy vibe, which is also my very favorite horror setting so this was basically always going to be a winner for me, so to make sure I wasn’t watching it from a lens filtered with obsessive horror love, I showed it to my best friend…
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So much ominous evil packed into a tight four minute timeframe, this was an awesome short! Not a second wasted as we're thrown right into the action as a masked maniac is getting their stalk game on in the snow before shifting over to some of the ol' winter demon ritual fun. The soundtrack is solid, the atmosphere is loaded with plenty of snow covered doom 'n' gloom, and besides, I'm always down for a bit of wicked holiday bloodshed!
The demons have been sated for another year...
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Woah. Slick occult-drenched slasher in just 4 minutes?
While it doesn't quite have that punchline structure of most shorts, this one instead excels at giving you a perfect slice out of a feature length pie. No drawn out runway hoping the wheels will eventually get off the tarmac, this starts up in the sky and stays there with a firm hold on powerful dark cinematography, thick retro synths, and a plot that feels both original and familiar in just the right ways. Love how it's hinting at so much doom and destruction, steeped in the 80's horror charm we all eat up, but ready to take a bold step forward.When's the feature?
Watch here: youtu.be/_1n-rQxrYNM
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Parker, you beautiful, talented man. This looks gorgeous. Love the lighting and score. Can’t wait to see what you bring to the table in 2020.
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Parker Brennon's latest short film "Winter's Blood" is a delightfully demented four-minutes that flows with a quickly engaging pace and cements Brennon as a wildly compelling and imaginative artist to be on the watch for. Centering on a young woman being pursued by a masked stranger through the snow. She takes refuge in a random home, decorated to the nines with yuletide spirit, and unknowingly awakens an ancient evil. Available to watch via YouTube and Vimeo, this dark dash of holiday horror is a great way to get through the season.
Atmospheric and ambient all the way through, Brennon does a great amount of set-up in the short but sweet run-time. Ambitiously executed for the relatively low budget, "Winter's Blood"…
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"We made it through another year."
Red gel lighting and cult shenanigans provide a nice setup and mood, with just enough story to answer some questions but leaving enough unanswered that I wish we got to see more - and I mean that in the best way. I WANT MORE. It's always so impressive when someone can create this much atmosphere in just a few minutes, and also provide as tangible a bit of world-building to spin off multiple scenarios in the mind. I could easily see this concept being expanded into a feature film.
That synthy horror Christmas bell music in the end credits was kinda sick, and that poster is rad af. Looks like some pagan metal band shit and I love it.
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Pretty decent short I randomly choose to watch this one just so happened to be a little Christmassy but it was called Winter's Blood so there was always a chance it was going be Christmas based but anyway I digress.
I thought the main girl was on point, she did a really good job with what she had to do.
Some nice shots which worked well with the budget never doing too much just showing enough.
As a short what it did well was make me want to know more, who were those people, what was the mark on the forehead, how long have they been doing this, why every year, what is the mythology of the creature in the shadows.
I guess I have questions but on a whole definitely worth four minutes of your time.