Who's There?
2024 · 10m · United States
Directed by Ryan Doris
Genres: horror, mystery, thriller
Tones: contemplative, dark, tense
When a single father hears his daughter come home late, he begins to question whether the voice he's hearing is really hers — or something else.
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The scouts
The paranoia-via-voice-recognition angle is refreshingly unhinged—a dad slowly losing his mind over phonetic micro-expressions instead of jump scares—but it's almost *too* tidy, a concept that knows exactly what it wants to say and says it without much friction.
Doris demonstrates formal restraint in the sound design and blocking that recalls the domestic uncanny of early Ari Aster, though the film sits comfortably within established psychological-horror lineage rather than destabilizing it.
The film's entire architecture hinges on the decision to make the horror acoustic rather than visual—trusting the audience to feel dread through vocal timbre and subtle inflection—and that singular constraint is what makes a simple premise of father-and-daughter feel genuinely unsettling.
Reviews
"Who's There?" is a simple and effective horror short, directed by Ryan Doris. Ryan Doris does an excellent job at presenting the narrative.