All You Can Carry
2018 · 10m
Directed by Andrew Rose
Genres: coming-of-age, horror, thriller
Twelve-year-old Anthony lives with his parents in a hidden cabin in the woods, and he has until dawn to escape with his life.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
The cabin-in-the-woods setup screams convention until you realize the real horror isn't external—it's the family itself, which is refreshingly bleak in a way most coming-of-age thrillers are too squeamish to commit to.
Rose demonstrates formal control in how he compresses mythic stakes—the archetypal escape narrative—into the tight pressure cooker of a single night, echoing folk-horror lineage while maintaining psychological precision.
The decision to hold on Anthony's face in the dark, letting ambient sound and his breathing do the storytelling rather than cutting away, transforms a genre premise into something genuinely suffocating and intimate.