Leopard Heels
2026 · 12m · United Kingdom
Directed by Chris Turner
A woman desperate for a job discovers something sinister behind a closed door at the interview.
Picked by Zoe
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Interview horror is basically a played-out setup at this point, and Turner doesn't seem interested in subverting it—just executing it. The 'sinister behind the door' reveal is exactly where you'd expect it to go, which is a problem when your whole pitch is that something *unexpected* happens.
Turner demonstrates disciplined control of genre conventions and pacing within the interview-thriller lineage, building dread through spatial constraint and formal composition; the work sits comfortably within a tradition of workplace-horror that values procedural tension over shock.
The real work here lives in whatever choice Turner made to distinguish the reveal from every other 'things get dark in the boardroom' short—whether it's a performance beat, a sound design decision, or how the camera refuses to look—and that specificity is what separates this from the premise alone.
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LEOPARD HEELS is a British horror short about what hides behind a closed door, and what it costs a woman to walk through it.