PUMPKIN GUTS
2024 · 13m · UK
Directed by Bryan M. Ferguson
Genres: horror
Set in the 1980s, a babysitter named Becky answers her door on Halloween to find a diseased pumpkin on her doorstep and must carefully follow a set of mysterious rules to survive the night.
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The scouts
$800 babysitter-vs-pumpkin Halloween short with a Soft Moon score made in a personal crisis — the budget and backstory are the most interesting things about it, but that's not nothing. 80s pastiche is its own ceiling.
Ferguson's $800 Halloween exercise, scored by the late Luis Vasquez, carries a genuine emotional context that elevates the modest 80s-pastiche framework. A minor pleasure with sincere stakes behind it.
13:28 made for $800 with a Luis Vasquez (The Soft Moon) score finished posthumously — that backstory alone gives the synth textures weight you can't manufacture. Ferguson hyphenating writer/director/editor/producer/production-designer on a microbudget Halloween rules-based horror is the right kind of obsessive solo focus.
Reviews
A bite-sized jolt of horror.
'80s Throwback Short PUMPKIN GUTS Is Perfect Halloween Viewing — dripping with '80s horror nostalgia.
Festivals
- Fantastic Fest 2024
- Beyond Fest 2024
- FrightFest 2024