𝙋𝘼𝙍𝘼𝙂𝙊𝙉 | 1980s Sci-Fi Horror Short Film
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ก.ย. 2024
- 1984. A computer program. A terrifying discovery. PARAGON, the short film.
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"One quiet night in the summer of 1984, an MIT student discovers an unfathomable horror after accidentally inventing a computer program that can predict the future."
‘PARAGON,’ a retro 1980s-style sci-fi horror short film, has captivated audiences worldwide and was an official selection at the Fantasia Film Festival and the Sitges Film Festival-two of the top and most prestigious genre fests in the world.
I’m deeply proud of this project and hope you enjoy it as much as I did making it.
If you enjoy retro sci-fi horror, please share it around with everyone you know!
I did the sound on this! The final product is so radical! I can't wait to show everyone!
Great Job!
The sound design really did it for me
@@R.J.theBad1 Superb job! 👍
Wicked good sound!
Hey RJ your musical score is definitely amazing I had to watch the movie again just to hear the music again and again. Whatever school you went to your music teacher taught you well. You should definitely join Hollywood and become a music director for some of these movie producers. I’m confident that you would do well and get hired in a matter of seconds job well done here
Super proud of you Colin, it's been a pleasure to work with you and look forward to what happens next my man!
Thanks Mike! Same to you, I really appreciate it!
Hey man, saw your post on Reddit and came here. Really nice work on this!
Awesome, so glad you enjoyed it! Thanks.
This is terrific! The 80's style really makes this film amazing! Very professional, very Polished. Should recieve so much more likes than it has!!!
Thank you, so glad you enjoyed it!
This should be turned into a full fledged horror Sci-fi movie, since its based in 1980's timeline it will be a hit because everyone loves that..Good Job on this movie..
Thank you, I appreciate it and hopefully one day it will be!
I really like how the scare was executed it was subtle at first but intentional it was very eerie to look at, and it worked so well because of the build up. I love stuff like this.
Awesome, so glad you liked it and I appreciate it! Thanks!
Fantastic film!
Thank you!
That was one of the best horror shorts I’ve watched in a looong time!! Great work!! 👍
Thank you, so glad you enjoyed!
Damn, everything from the set design, props, casting, acting, music & colours grading - this is amazing. Thanks so much for making this!
Thank you so much! I really appreciate it and am so glad you enjoyed it.
Came here from the reddit post, this is amazing! The editing is fantastic on this and the colour palette is lovely. Very effective story telling, certainly go to show you don't need a big budget to make something great. This is something that I think would make for a really interesting feature!
Thank you! I'm so glad you enjoyed it. I appreciate the comment!
Definitely enjoyed this one! Nice job. 👏🏻
@@royceanne7986 Awesome, thank you!
This is great! I’m an 80s child and you did a great job of building tension, but without it being over the top or too “80s” nice
Thank you! I really tried to make it feel authentic so that's so great to hear, so glad you enjoyed it!
Congratulations for the short, I discovered it today, it's an intriguing and mysterious story and it takes place entirely in one room!
Thank you, I really apprecite it and so glad you enjoy!
I enjoyed every second of it. The atmosphere, the plot, music. Very good one.
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That last 30 seconds made me poop my panties. What a terrifying ending
Haha sorry! But glad you enjoyed it!
The jumpscare nearly got me killed. I enjoyed this video
Awesome, so glad you liked it. Thanks!
Okay so the Software is selfaware AI that is trying to fight these entities by interfering with their plans by informing people about the future in order to fk it up.
Awesome plot I actually want a full movie on this.
Make It happen Devs!!!
Haha thank you, so glad you enjoyed and hopefully one day it will be!
I’m a short horror & thriller enthusiast. This was so well done.
Thank you, I appreciate it!
Loved the short film! Really hoping to see a full length movie.
Thanks man, I really appreciate it and hope we can make one too!
I love this film. It should be made into a full feature or a series!
@@Susan-u2j Thank you! Maybe one day it will be, stay tuned!
Shame they took the computer. Those were very expensive back in the day.
Great video.
Haha thank you!
Never thought an old Apple console could be so scary, well done ❤
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Bravo, This is the Flavor, I have been missing since 1977
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What a great short. Excellent production on all levels.
Fantastic, thank you so much for the compliment! I really appreciate it and am so glad you enjoyed it.
That was awesome!!!
Thank you, I appreciate it and glad you enjoyed!
Very cool dude! May I ask the budget of your short?
Thank you! The budget was around $3,500 USD.
Loved the short, there were some great ideas, Paragons got to have a sequel.
Thank you, I really appreciate it and hopefully one day haha!
SO SICK!! I made a short film with a similar style, but this is such a huge step up!! Really beautiful work and i cant wait to see more!!
Thanks man! I really appreciate it. Just went to your channel and saw it and it was dope in its own right, so great job on it as well!
I also use Paragon software to backup my computer 🙂 Great short everyone.
Awesome, thank you! Haha
This is really rad. Well done to everyone involved. Love the Alien poster, too. Project goals!
Thank you, so glad you enjoyed!
Nice!
Thanks!
Now this I would like to see more of, the tension build up was the chefs kiss 😊.
Awesome! So glad you enjoyed, thank you!
This movie was great,i loved the vintage vibe of it,i also really liked the ending
Thank you, I appreciate it!
Everything about this is AMAZING and SCARY you´re already an amazing director, congratulations 👏👏👏
Thank you, I really appreciate it and so glad you enjoyed haha!
This is good.
Unlike Last 15 shorts what I have watched.
@@jasujokelainen5073 Thanks! So glad you enjoyed it
Hey, I really liked this. The sound and lighting, the edit, the overall quality, the rising tension... Great! I would spend an evening to immerse myself in this atmosphere. Love it.
I have one issue with the final confrontation with the "baddie"... I think it is extremely hard to write reveals and confrontations with any sort of supernatural or otherworldly evil entity. They use I am often left wondering: What happened here? what happened to the person? why is the entity the way it is? On what level is it interacting with the physical world?
In this, the sound effects are quite suggestive, but the look an the way it moved (speed ramped, flickering, stuttering) to me seems a little commonplace. I am thinking of the typical "monster jumps at camera", "ghost flickers like a screen glitch" and these things seem to me like "okay, how do we let this happen? why don't I use this effect, I have seen it somewhere else...". Not, that this happened here.
I realize it must be extremely difficult to film such a reveal and confrontation in a convincing way. That ist why I am asking: What motivates this one? Why did the Craftsmen hose to use the monster poster as inspiration? That was hardly their true form.
And can you think of reveals and confrontations in movies, where the whole thing makes sense in the way the creature acts, moves, travels and the way it kills or mames or whatever the one being killed?
Hey! So I'm really glad that you enjoyed it overall. You have a lot of solid points that I think are worth discussing, so I'll do my best to lay out my thought process.
So I find as a filmmaker, especially in the short film horror sphere, my job is to create something that gives a viewer enough intrigue and ideas to pull them in, understand the overall concept and want to know more, but keep the exact mechanics and exactly why things are happening the way they are vague enough that it forces them to come up with their own answers for why, as I honestly believe that makes for a more engaging experience for a viewer with this type of film.
I find that the more you explain things like how the entity works and why exactly it does things the way it does, especially in the realm of horror, it makes whatever the monster/creature/entity is less scary, which defeats the whole point IMHO. What you or anyone else conjures up about what they believe these things are and why they do what they do is likely going to be far more imaginative and interesting, and terrifying, than anything I honestly or realistically could put on the screen.
The human mind is a powerful thing, and we're afraid of the dark not because of the dark itself, but because we don't know what's in it, so to speak haha.
Hopefully this doesn't feel like cop-out answer because this is generally what I truly believe for horror, and especially with this specific project, needed to be successful. I have some ideas about why the Craftsmen operate in the way they do, but to be honest I'm closer to being in the dark on their true nature than you might expect. And that's mostly because I didn't think I needed to dive into it more than what you see in the short - the exact decisions I made which I tried (and hopefully succeded at) justifying above. Those decisions were honestly my gut reactions to what I would find scary if I was in Jeremy's situation, and almost came intiutlvely in that sense, so it's hard to explain the exact reasons why as well.
I will say for the poster, I liked the idea of the Craftsmen using Jeremy's surroundings to play mind games on him and scare him even further. So that was kind of the idea behind that.
I think for the scares and concept in general, a lot of it is based on my own personal fears of how insignificant I and humanity are in the grand scheme of the universe - cosmic horror. Also the fears I have around how while I think we can use technology to help us close that same gap in knowledge, there is a risk that same tech will make us realize even more terrifying things about the universe - widening the gap even farther instead of closing it. And while I'm not really a superstitious or religious person and they don't frigthen me in a demonic or supernatural sense, those ideas do frighten me on an existential level.
I'm also big fan of late 70s/early 80s computer aesthetics, especially in film (the look and feel of the computer was heavily based on the look and feel of the Nostro computer system from the origianl Alien movie). So when I found out a buddy of mine had access to an working old Apple II computer, I wrote the film around the fact we had access to it because I wanted to exploit those aesthetics.
So the films concepts and ideas came from taking those intangible feelings of fear I have, combing them together in a tangible way with the computer that makes narrative sense, and translating them into cool horror concept that I think is digestable and fun for someone to watch.
Honestly when I was originally creating the film, I don't think I had fully processed the fear reasons were a big reason why I created the story that I did. I just came up with the concept seemingly out of the blue based on the fact we had access to the computer, and I thought it was cool. After all this time and really thinking about it, I THINK I can say those were some of the big intial reasons I might not have been fully able to articulate before, but I was acting on somewhat subconsiously.
Hopefully that all makes sense and is an acceptable answer lol. Thanks for the comment and happy you liked it overall!
Dudee fkin awesome.. it kept me on my edgee .. i have adhd and cant keep my self focused but u sirr .. made me watch everything. ... U will reach greater heights i promise.. truly a inspiration fr
Thank you! I really appreciate the kind words and I'm so glad you enjoyed!
awsome
Thanks!
Fantastic work!
Thank you!
I remember those 5-1/4 inch floppy disk they only 1.2 mb storage space no way it could be used for whole Back-up in one floppy.
Haha let's say Jeremy was smart enough that he figured out how to compress file sizes small enough to fit the entire backup on the disk with advanced file compression, a break through method. He was an MIT student who made a computer program that could predict the future after all!
Man this was superb! 🎉
Thank you, glad you enjoyed!
Would love to see a behind the scenes video! Great cinematography. Is the computerscreen done in post?
Thank you so much! So glad you enjoyed it.
So we didn't really do too much BTS stuff unfortunately, didn't really think about it at the time haha.
The computer was actually a working Apple II, and all the text on screen was actually on the computer when we were filming!
We just put the camera on a tripod (locking down the shot) and did some editing tricks to make it look like it was responding to the prompts. All of that text had to be typed out by hand by me lol.
Really cool work!
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!
Wow - fabulous - thank you :) From Sydney 2024
Thank you so much!
Wow, that's incredible, man. Technically outstanding. Congratulations! I can’t wait to see more!
Thank you! So glad you enjoyed it and I appreciate it!
I came from Reddit to drop a like. Keep doing great work!
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Nice! Very good short.
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Acting is a bit flat but good idea, good Script and very good implementation. Well done! 👍
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Excellent 😬
Thank you!
This is amazing 👏 🤩 🙌 best film of the year
Haha thank you, so glad you enjoyed!
Очень круто. Такой полнометражный фильм я бы посмотрел!
Спасибо, я ценю это!
fun short! but how did a 13 year old nerd get his own apartment? the main actor looks so young. 😊
Haha thank you! It was the 80s, different standards back then lol. So glad you enjoyed.
Dear God them synthesis
Haha glad you enjoyed them!
good stuff, you never should have showed the alien tho imo
Thanks! And I totally get it, different strokes for different folks. Still glad you enjoyed!
Nice :-)
Thank you!
neat!
Thanks!
Awesome video? Or film
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tres bon court-metrage
Merci, ravi que vous ayez apprécié !
Kewl!
Thank you!
👍💐
Alexa!
can i make a remake
hey colin awsome short im also trying to make a short film too could you help me find a good vfx thanks
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