SINCOPAT
2026 · 13m
Directed by Pol Diggler
Genres: horror, sci-fi, thriller
Tones: dark, provocative, tense
A creative executive about to launch a device that plays music directly inside the brain discovers the results are terrifying.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Finally—a sci-fi horror that actually inverts the utopian tech pitch instead of just warning us about it. Diggler takes the most seductive consumer fantasy (music in your head, always) and makes it genuinely *wrongness*, which is exactly the kind of premise that makes everyone else nervous.
A disciplined descent into body horror that recalls Cronenberg's formal precision, though Diggler's 13 minutes feel slightly compressed—the film earns its dread through editing rhythm and sound design rather than the sustained unease a longer format might allow.
The real move here is the choice to keep the actual experience of the device—what's happening *inside*—mostly off-screen; that restraint forces the performance and the executive's face to do all the work, and it transforms a high-concept premise into something uncomfortably intimate.
Reviews
Experience SINCOPAT, a brilliant sci fi horror short from director Pol Diggler where the results of this new tech are absolutely terrifying.