The Three Men You Meet at Night
2020 · 13m
Directed by Beck Kitsis
Genres: horror, surrealism, thriller
A young woman walking home alone at night encounters three different men, each encounter turning her walk into a surreal nightmare.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
The setup screams 'late-night threat narrative' until it doesn't—but the surrealism feels more like window dressing than genuine inversion, which is exactly the kind of half-committed genre play that bores me.
Kitsis positions this squarely in the feminist horror lineage, and the formal restraint of the walking-alone framing invokes a clear tradition; the surreal turns are measured enough to feel deliberate rather than indulgent.
The real lift here is how Kitsis uses sound design and spatial blocking to collapse the boundary between threat and dreamscape—that specific choice to make each encounter feel *less* grounded rather than more creates the uncanniness on a shoestring.
Reviews
The Three Men You Meet at Night is that type of film. Its atmosphere and beautiful cinematography demands attention and, with it's premiere on ALTAR, this film deserved a full review.