Doomed Scroller
2023 · 2m
Directed by Jérémy Bouvier
Genres: horror
A micro-short horror about the perils of watching your phone at night.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Finally, someone weaponizing the phone-scroll premise into actual dread instead of recycling boomer anxiety—Bouvier finds the real horror in that hypnotic thumb-swipe, the one that swallows you whole at 3am, and he's not interested in the safe version of that story.
A cleanly executed riff on digital-age gothic, though it sits comfortably within an emerging subgenre rather than interrogating the form itself; the craft is assured but the conceptual argument feels already-settled.
The decisive move here is the sound design—that pulse underneath the scrolling, the way silence breaks when it matters—which transforms what could've been a tired premise into genuine unease on a shoestring budget.
Reviews
Final Girl Presents DOOMED SCROLLER Don't watch your phone at night. DOOMED SCROLLER Director: JÉRÉMY BOUVIER Writer: JÉRÉMY BOUVIER & FRANÇOIS MÉNIA Producer: MIDNIGHT SPECIAL Cinematographer: YOANN SUBERVIOLLES Editor: ANTOINE CUISNIER 1st AD: FRANÇOIS GUIDEZ-MAREST Script Supervisor: AURÉLIEN C
Festivals
- The Thing in the Basement Horror Fest 2024
- Big Teeth Small Shorts Festival 2024
- Austin Micro Short Film Festival 2024
- Nikon Film Festival 2024
- Cannes Worldwide Film Festival 2023, Nominee: Best Super Short Film
- Atlanta Film Festival 2025, Best Micro Short Film Finalist