Horror Short Film “Callus” | ALTER
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Hey folks – Ciarán (Director/Writer) for Callus here! Thanks so much for checking out this Irish folk-horror short film of ours, I really hope you enjoy it. It's great to be back showing on ALTER after my last short, Terrible Things, did the rounds a few years ago.
Callus is, in a nutshell, a story of parental love against the backdrop of Irish pagan sensibilities as seen through a Lovecraftian-tinged lens. It was funded in full by Screen Ireland (the Irish Film Board) and was an opportunity for me and the team to embark on a larger kind of story in preparation for future feature film production. It's a jam-packed short by design – an entire package all its own with setup and resolution, but its also a kind of 'proof of concept' for a larger lore and world I'm keen to explore further in future projects where Celtic mythology and eldritch leanings meet in the middle.
Please do ask me any questions you want answered and I'll do my best to keep on top of things. Happy to engage with one and all. I'm currently abroad at the moment so I might be a bit delayed responding to everyone, but responding to everyone is exactly what I hope to do.
Cheers!
So good.
These independent film makers are killing it right now! I need more!!
this was an great film
High infant mortality, crops not growing, animal refusing to eat, and birth defects? We sure there isnt like a chemical or radiological leak lol? Get the water supply checked or something
Real horror story 😢 humans who persecute others different from themselves 😞
Okay just arrived here with an open mind…
Reminds me "The Chrysalids" novel by Wyndham…
I really enjoyed that.Well done to all.
Las tradiciones pueden ser parte de una hermosa cultura pero estar atados a ellas demasiado tiempo las vuelve una maldición.
Ooohhh don't pitty him now for getting his face scratch he started it and attack her family..she just wanted to have a normal life..im not killing her period..let's live in the woods together
Why did he stabb the pub owner? They could just leave
I've been watching your videos since 2019
Came here from watching a Foo Fighters video
This was so sad. The story was scary because how realistic the response of the towns people to times of stress. The poor girl and father.
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That's what you get for dicking around with "old Gods"
Was ein Dummfug
Baby was just born a diva, nails and all
What the heck I came to see a scary movie and I'm over here bawling like a baby
Flop
Finally a good short film after all this time.
Omg. All he had to do was leave. Stop trying to force dogs to be civilized. They killed him cuz theyre savages. Why would he want his daughter around such people. Just leave. Big freakin world. This was his war with acceptance and he used her as the focus of it. This is something parents often do. Children are born into the conflicts that tear the parents apart. Like i said, he coulda just left. 😮😢
I know this is fictional, but this is why blind faith is so stupid and dangerous. How many people have been murdered or otherwise attacked in history because of crap like this. It WAS a REALLY cool arm design! Very good short film! 🙂
Chill
I actually saw the curse as a very different thing. I thought the town itself was the curse.
The thing is, no one ever let these children grow up, and the town has been deteriorating. This young woman wasn't part of the town; she was hidden away and isolated from the town the entire time and have little to no interaction with the town. And then the flower dying at the end, I don't think it was necessarily showing or representing death. I think it was about a cycle of renewal that she was never given the opportunity for – nor have any of the other children.
So maybe I'm reaching to the tallest bookshelf with my best footstool and still only able to brush it with my fingertips, but that's what I thought. Could be wrong, though, and it's on the bottom shelf and I'm in need of a serious face-palming.
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the editor made a hugh mistake not showing the deformity in the first take.
The descendants of the fallen human.
This was phucking birilliant, but I need more. This should be made into a feature film
Such a beautifly done movie, I even cried a little. Loved it.
Just Beautiful!
I really think that flower petal was lost on like 90% of you.