A Hollow Tree - Skinwalker movie (Proof-of-Concept)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 มิ.ย. 2023
- Starring Tom Kerrisk & Mathew O’Hare
[In Development]
This is a proof-of-concept independent short film for university dissertation studying techniques to create a post-apocalyptic environment.
This was a low budget, student production. If you're interested in seeing this developed into a feature film let me know in the comments! Thanks for checking it out.
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The disturbing part about the skinwalker’s lure is that when you hear it, the walker already knows you’re there. And that it’s just trying to bait you closer. Absolutely terrifying.
Omg yes! That’s it, i hadn’t exactly registered why it was sooo creepy but that’s exactly it. Once you hear them, they’ve long since clocked you and are now playing with your mind.
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I always think about how if they sound close they're far and I'm like "you best run dude while you have a chance"
@@zesebi bro what 😭
@@michaelmurphy8947skin walker a scrub bro, one .45 ACP def killing these poser.
How has there not been more skinwalker/alternate movies. The whole genre of things pretending to be human is utterly terrifying.
There is one I saw the trailer for on Amazon prime, i can't find it though, i remember the brief synopsis, it was about 4 adults or college students at some house or cabin in the woods and they have to figure out what's real and not real since there's a skin walker outside, looked pretty decent too but I can't for the love of my life find it
@@sebastianortiz9343’Forrest of Death’ might be what your looking for
There not pretending to be humans. There humans that can disguise themselves as any animal. Look up some history on them
@@sebastianortiz9343 i think that this is the one theyre describing
The wretched is a pretty good film on Netflix that’s kinda like that
I love the idea of just a rapid decline in the human population encouraging things that've evaded and eluded humans for millenia coming out of hiding and being more active, now that humanity is on the backfoot.
Yea most people are in love with ideas. Don’t feel bad you’ll get better.
@@Starkillr1 who bullied you, man?
They will emerge from the hollow earth to retake the woods and mountains
Refine your Long-range game & sharpen up your C.Q.B.!
@Starkillr1 😂😂 bro is sad reddit is irrelevant
im so used to skin walkers being edited calls of deers. theyre always described as sounding off and this is honestly my favorite take. its clearly saying help but its the tone of voice that betrays it. plus the way it skittered made it perfectly uncanny. by far the best skinwalker ive seen
the vid is based on the skinwalker lore from gemini home entertainment analog horror rather than the traditional folklore one, in that the skinwalkers are just one version of a much deadlier phenomen, being refered to as "natures mockery" and wood crawler, as its a kind of arachnid like creature thats turning people into skinwalkers or fake people iirc, id give it a watch
@@stellarkin1232 i didnt find anything with the word skinwalker in the title. Do you know which one it was?
The voices is what will keep me from going into a forest. The idea of something luring by pretending to be someone in need is terrifying. Somehow it's scarier to me when it doesn't flawlessly mimic someone. Either a call being said in half a breathe, the cadence and emphasis being greatly mismatched and that it uses the exact same samples, like it's only heard 3 screams but it keeps repeating those three exactly every time. God, that's scaring me thinking about it.
@@tomas.a1356I watched a clip last night of someone traipsing around the forest at night alone with a flashlight. He hears a branch break and cuts the light off. An eerie voice says “I see you!” In the distance. It was probably fake but still gave me the Willie’s!
I love this story and i love physical monsters in horror. I hate when its an OP ghost or something because i want horror thats also fun and unrealistic and you can plot how you would survive! Also, have you ever noticed people in the comments of these videos will make up their own (claiming its real) stories about how they encountered the creature in the vid? Lmao
I don’t if it’s intentional but I love the fact that the screams for help almost don’t sound like fully pronounced words but rather just the mimicking of the sounds.
It literally is mimicking, the thing is that it doesn’t ever hear people say “help” with full pronunciation or any words really so it can’t clearly articulate it and simply adjust volume for distance like humans would yell louder and at a distance the acute pronunciation wouldn’t be as noticeable so skinwalkers imitate the only sounds they know from humans; screams of terror. Creepy how they’re aware of humans empathy too and use it against us
@@Barrythebarnabasi also hear those are the screams they took from their last prey to bring in other prey n then mimic theirs
It reminds me of the “sierra camp” recording
Oh, I didn't know that. That's terrifying it's like the Predators or that bear creature from Annihilation.
Lots of animals can sound human. Especially when distressed. Anyone who doesn't spend time in the wilderness could easily think an animal is a human yelling. Mountain lions, racoons, deer and elk, rabbits can all sound similar to humans... Crows can actually mimic. There are real dangers to worry about out there, but shape shifters are probably not one of them.
I love how its actually in tune with skin walker lore. As when the kid acknowledged the screaming at the end, it suddenly began chasing them. In navoho lore im pretty sure that the big rule is do not acknowledge noises that walkers make, as they will know that you can hear them and they will come for you
Not really. Yee Naaldlooshii is the word Navajo use for Skinwalkers, and mostly Skinwalkers are exclusive to the Navajo but hypothetically any Witch Doctor could become a Skinwalker. Yee Naaldlooshii roughly translates to "by any means of it, he goes on all fours". Whistling is believed to be one of the noises that gets their attention, as well as talking about them in general. To acknowledge the sound might be in the beliefs somewhere but I've only heard about what I said. Looking them in the eyes can have significance, if only because they have cast aside their humanity, so to look into the eyes would be like looking into a void, something soulless but undoubtedly human. They cast aside their humanity by denouncing their human name and killing the one closest to them. The one who would be their main motivation for staying in the human world. This is why saying their name has significance. You invoke the very thing they cast aside for enhanced physical abilities and shapeshifting power. A skinwalker attack looks less like what's depicted in the movie. Multiple things can happen. Yes they might mimic the voices of loved ones but they don't mimic the shape of them, that's Goat Men. They'll also run laps around your house, just the pounding of hooves or heavy feet doing 360s around your home, or stomping on your roof. After this if you inspect your home you might find the actual means of attack, a "fetish" which is pieces of you like your hair or urine, mixed with animal bones and other unpleasant things, then left on your property to bring negative energy, misfortune, and sickness to your body. Usually beneath your house, like under your porch, or hanging on a tree at the treeline of your property, somewhere you likely won't notice unless you knew to look for a fetish afterward to get rid of it.
@@ghoulishgoober3122 I didn't know ANY of that. Thanks for taking the time to share it. It was disorienting for me to expect an American Southwest setting for this skinwalker short film based on the title, but find myself in a post-apocalyptic U.K. world instead. Fresh concept, works!
My Four Corners-area rancher friend knows certain canyons to avoid on native lands, and doesn't even *joke* about skinwalker lore. In fact, his face went gray and he stopped talking, so I changed the subject.
just remember, if you heard someone shouting in a forest where you're alone, no you didn't. :)
Skinwalkers are fake it's all a lie.
I want to say I have, I was living Pinetop, AZ in 2008 and I think I heard plea's for help one time when cutting through a Forest park to get home after school. It tripped me out because I didn't know where it was coming from and I was deep into the woods, I kept going because I had a weird chill but took me couple hours to get home. Thought cutting through the forest would be quicker, it wasn't with an ingrown deep toe nail. 😢
Please make this into a full feature film.
The acting is top notch. The camera work is incredible. The music, lighting. Everything is amazing.
The acting is very not top notch lol. And the dialogue is crap, just repeating stuff or not setting up character.. Had to skip 80% of it coz it was so boring. Thing that irked me the most was those stupid added foot steps like cmon 😂
The running skin walker was pretty cool though.
And just black screen in the cabin. C'mon man!
Fjb
@@DonRoyalXyou had to skip 80% of an 22 minute long video? That's not their fault, thats just your terrible attention span
@@DonRoyalX If you had to skip through a 20 minute video, then you have a worse attention spam than a goldfish with ADHD
Hearing the uncanny screams at the beginning and seeing that thing just waddling around the field is just terrifying. Definitely did a great job here.
I love how the skin walker doesnt directly charge straight at the camera. It just runs in the general direction running in a zig zag pattern, like it was able to hear the main character but not able to pin point it. It makes it seem more like a hunter
Ikr it made me laugh and the way the regret sound effect played made it better 😂
It looked more like it knew he had a rifle, so it ran that way so he wouldn't be able to hit him
@@lasa9595 Yeah, I also think that was probably the main reason.
Or that it is intelligent enough to know to strafe to avoid bullets.
Ever lost a digital watch with a set alarm? It can be tricky to find given its location. He's in a forest and the trees would've bounced sound around in multiple directions. This is probably the same for anyone trying to find the origin of a cricket or cicada's chirp in a forest.
This needs more development. It has great potential to be a full feature film, a series even
this!
There's a go fund me link in the bio. If enough people donate they are turning this into a full feature film.
I thought its already being released soon, I looked it up online and the only info I see is on imdb
@@Dead_End_Angel oh, I don't know why they would link the go fund me and act like it wasn't already done then I have no idea
It is a full movie. It just hasn't come out in theaters yet
The horror in this is fantastic.
The thought of something that isn't human, using our distress calls when it is drooling at the thought of us fooling for it.
Properly frightening.
Please make this a full movie
Me in the shower after I realize I'm out of soap.
Me on the shitter after Taco Bell
😂 lol both of you
The thing that set me over the top for how good this is was when the skinwalker was crawling to him at top speed but the scream didnt change distance and it didnt sound like the crawling was even affecting how it screamed, which means it saw you but was still trying to lure you into security because its smart. Truly triggered my fight or flight, well done sir, i hope we get a skinwalker movie like this one day.
the red mist is coming
I’m also coming
@@Doom-xd3zqhold still im almost done
I can feel the red mist coming inside me!
@@mr.suitsland6594wait a min, let me finish too.
@@Novabunny_ambatakum
The way old man just slowly turns around when hearing the noises, not freaking out, it’s so much more realistic. Being someone who hunts and has spent a good bit of time in the woods before the sun has even come up I don’t freak out when I hear a stick snap. The way people react to noises in the woods is a lot calmer, it feels like stretching your ears to see if you can discern what it was just by the noise. Being in the woods is a surreal experience, not exactly terrifying but spooky enough to make you look and listen twice
wow you explained that feeling perfectly
Random fact but in certain types of meditation in order to get better hearing you close your eyes and imagine your ears getting bigger and bigger until your nothing but a giant pair ears and nothing else.
@@whiskeyxDin hybrid moments you know
It's also a natural instinct + developed skill, sharp movement is unnatural in the woods, therefore you move very slowly when something presents itself
The background scenery definitely seems like the kind of place a skinwalker would be. I love how things are implied but not explained, it makes things a lot more intriguing when you want to know about something
I know right? On one scene the world is perfectly described
"Why is the north any better?"
"Further away from the blast"
And right there, we have a _why_ they are stuck in a situation like this, no 14 minute long explanation, just 2 sentences
This is absolutely amazing. I especially like the use of the "Annihilation" soundtrack to pinpoint the same areas of 'safe' and 'not safe'. Watching the movie so many times, you get the same feeling of dread and existential horror. I truly hope that there is more to this, and they fledge this out into a full length film.
i know annihilation is one of my favorite and i pinpointed the music as soon as i heard it! lol
@@hippiecloudd999I love that movie too
Yep I caught the same thing.
Instantly took me back to that movie..
I like the idea of a post apocalyptic movie that is grounded in a realistic plot but has supernatural threats. This is badass!
This honestly reminds me of the video game Metro. Set in post-apocalyptic Russia its about survivaling other humans in the underground tunnels of subway stations, while supernatural forces can be witnessed during the protagonists journey. Favorite part was the whispers in the pipes and the dark shadows.
You mean like... most post apocalyptic stories?
A terrible situation gets so much worse. Love this idea as well. The filmmakers did such a great job
@@mythicalsalmon3621no post apocalyptic movie has ghost and demons.
I know right
I love the idea of never actually having main interaction with the creature yet, and it’s simply something they’re avoiding.
Nah, it got boring
@@Spade_the_wolf perhaps to people who cant go without a action seen every 10 minutes sure but if your here for the story then its great
@@creepyplaysoof4812 without action for 10 minutes is fine but when there is no action at all for the whole film, that is when its boring
@@josua3 you have to take into account it’s a short film, aswell as it’s not a action film, which brings me back to my first point, people who need action every 10 minutes aren’t gonna like this they need a action film.
@@creepyplaysoof4812 im assuming the short movie is gonna have another part? because it ended so suddenly with literally 0 conclusion
This is genuinely one of the best short films i have ever watched. When i saw the thing running on all fours, i physically reacted and shouted "nope!" I seriously hope this becomes a full film.
I instantly thought, "crap, run" in a quiet voice
Not sure if anyone noticed but in opening scene had filmscore from the movie, "Annihilation" and strangly enough- the creature in that movie also mimicked voices its heard to lure more victims. A truly terrifying movie.
Holy god. That quick glance at his watch only to look back and see the thing crawl so fast set my fight or flight off and now there's constant shivers down my back. I think I'm in love with this movie!
That was the only half decent part. Everything after that was boring.
For real, that was the climax. I watched the rest thinking it's gonna get better and it was a disappointment. Add another hour I bet it could be great
You might also be interested in the ambience in the background! Check out the soundtrack for the movie, “Hereditary” the soundtrack itself is named, “brother and sister”
notice when the watch beeped it instantly stopped screaming and started moving towards him? it heard that beep from hundreds of meters away
@@rickyjames1659 a bit yes but i think sometimes a skinwalker perspective would put energy back in the movie
I'll never forget being in the theater, watching Annihilation, and hearing this soundtrack play. The rumbling in my chest as this sound played paired with the visuals was crazy.
That was a super underappreciated movie, I recognized the soundtrack too.
That movie gets a lot of hate but I LOVED it and the soundtrack is an integral part of what made it so unsettling. ❤
I like annihilation a lot, but when they crawled into the butthole thing at the end it kinda lost me.
Right. I too recognized it and got nostalgia of what i was feeling while watching annihilation..it was very uncomfy
@@sara_c907 only got hate because the movie is based off a book, and people complained it wasn’t perfect 🙃
The way the skinwalker moved as it ran towards the protagonist just hit me with the same huge horrible feeling I had when I experienced something when I was younger.
I decided to take a walk from my house to the local church... and it just so happened that this walk was at about 2-3 AM on a near-moonless night.
I don't really know why exactly I went on that walk, but I suffer from agoraphobia hard and leaving the house when it's dark and nobody is around to see me is the only time I would ever consider it and this was the first time I had ever gone on a walk like that in a long, long time.
I didn't bring a flashlight with me and I didn't want to have my phone's flash on the entire time I was walking, so I just had my phone out at max brightness to give me enough light to walk safely (enough) across roads to get to where I was going.
My church is a bit over 2 miles away from where I live, so this is a decently long walk back and forth.
On the way there, I get to about 15~ minutes in and suddenly see something large and light-colored dash out of the bushes on my right, silently sprint across the road, and then vanish into the dark bushes on my left almost immediately; my vision length was basically just how much light Chrome was giving me, so I didn't have much to work with, but it was far away enough for it to not have been any closer than 18-20 feet.
It scared the shit out of me, but I quickly calmed myself and said "shit, must have been a deer" and kept walking.
Less than 2 minutes later, my hair stood up and that other part of the brain had the thought "wait... a deer doesn't run like that."
This was immediately followed by the thoughts of "are... deer supposed to be that same light-greyish color?"
...
"Wasn't that more human-shaped running on all fours?"
I have never been more fucking terrified in my life.
I did still walk all the way to the church and back, but holy shit was I terrified the entire time.
The reason I didn't go back at first was because the thought hit me of "well, if I turn around, I'll be turning my back on where it went..." and I sure as fuck didn't want that.
I don't believe in any supernatural shit at all, but I, to this day, have no fucking idea what the hell that thing could have even been for it to have been that big, that color, that silent, and ran like that.
I have never gone on any walks after that.
Sounds like a rake to me, cave/sewer dwellers. They come out at night to hunt / scavenge what they can.
Something I believe has been kept under wraps and always will.
@@hardtailharry6812dude the rake was a cryptid invented collaboratively on 4chan. Skinwalkers and Wendigos are actually from indigenous folklore
Coyote, maybe?
Jesus Christ....Just saw the vid of the Hollow tree, then read your posting and i am just terrified. mostly because I think I've seen something seriously weird before. I'm a retired soldier and I have been to Combat many times so the prospect of dying in the field, never bother me as much (although I always preferred to shoot them) but this shit that happened to me, had terrified me for 15 years plus...
I was station in FT. Bragg back in 2008 and a few of us guys went Deer Hunting in W. Virginia like in the dead ass cold of November. I admit, I have never been hunting, so I made them promise, if I did get something, they will walk me through skinning, and all that good stuff (I was determined to make me some Deer Jerky). We were divided in two pairs, but always between sight of each other. sometime during the evening hours, I see a big ass Deer with a shit lot of antlers...I'm like Fuck yeah waited all damn day and now boom gonna bag me this fucker. I told "Michael" (not his real name) to look where it was and he paused and freaked the fuck out. All i heard him say was "Oh my lord save me". he was really frightened, and his face scared me... then I looked at the deer through the scope and I will swear on the life of my children, the fucking deer was kind of standing in two legs, like straight up and i don't know how like his front legs were like really long...that didn't make sense to me...and then the damn thing turned its head towards were we were.... I know it was getting darker and shit, but I know what i saw, I just didn't understand it. Out the blue, "Michael" took off running and he just yelled "RUN!! NOW, JUST FUCKIN RUN". I stood there for a sec, I was trying to understand why the fuck should i run from a deer, I even thought "oh man maybe they're fucking with my newbie ass"...but when i looked again through the scope "it" was gone...Like, not there, Gone!!!
I think that's when panic kicked in and I bolted out of there following "Michael", and I'm telling you this guy was in a full sprint towards where we park the Truck, He was yelling to our other friends to GTFO and head to the truck. man we just ran and ran like Lucifer himself was behind us...."Michael" kept turning around and looking back, and I did too, but I didn't see shit...We got by the truck and he literally threw his shit, including his "mightier than thou" rifle and was screaming to get in and drive off. We all looked at each other and said fuck this and basically threw our gear in the back and drove to the Hotel.
The entire drive back "Michael" was like in shock, mumbling to himself and saying some odd shit. I kept asking what the fuck just happened? He literally shouted at me to STFU and just to drive faster and that he was never going hunting again....we were really concerned, i had no idea why was he like that, because he was like the biggest Redneck hunter in the entire Post, i shit you not. (lots of deer heads and pics of all kinds of shit he hunted and mounted, you know the type). The other guys kept asking me what the hell happened, did we see a bear or something...but i didn't wanna talk about it while he was all messed up, freaking the fuck out... So we get back to the Hotel, and we were sharing the rooms like two rooms, 2 beds each and he told us we were all staying in together in one room or he was gonna get a UBER all the way to FT. Blevins in VA. He was in a full panic, so We all agreed and we stayed in the same room, and he had his shotgun on his hand aiming at the door the entire night, only slept on our drive home the next day.
On our drive back while he was asleep, the guys asked me what the hell would scare "Michael" so bad, and i told them it was not a bear or anything, and what i saw... These two guys looked at each other and they told me "Deer's don't stand in two legs, let alone straight up, bro" literally no one could say what the fuck was that. Almost getting home, one of the guys was Googling shit and he said that Maybe he thought it was a WENDIGO....and "Michael" knew what it was when he saw it. we like looked at each other and I said lets change subjects...mainly cause i was starting to freak out again.... All i know is that months after that happened, after the holidays and all that, "Michael" was seeing counselors at the Medical center, mainly to deal with a traumatic even. I remember asking him once if he would talk about it and this guy gave me a dead look and told me never ever again asking him about that day.
I am not gonna state that in fact I saw a damn WENDIGO....shit I had to look it up many times, trying to understand what I saw, what the hell happened that day, even trying to convince myself that maybe it was just my imagination....so no way I'm saying that's what it was....but what I am damn certain of is this... what I saw, what scared this guy worse I've ever seen before, ever, was definitely not a damn deer. I know this in my heart. Whatever it was, has me kept me spooked for years and keeping a gun next to me ever since. Oh and by the way, Never again I've been back in the woods...day or night...ever. Fuck the woods, I'm keeping my ass in the city.
@@Tricky561 Deer can stand on their hind legs and bucks do so fairly commonly. They’re also fast- that deer bolted, rather than “disappeared” from your eyesight. Sounds like Michael had a mental breakdown (hey, war will f you up) and the rest of you were taken along for the ride. It was a lucky day for that buck, though. It’s not the Wendigo or the deer in the woods you have to fear - it’s other people.
I don't want a whole movie of this,
I need a whole series!
About 7 minutes into this, I completely forgot it was a short film. I became so invested as if I were sitting down watching a 2 hour film.
IKR!! Then it came to an end. I was like DAMN!!
Biggest disappointment was finding out this wasn’t a full movie yet
Boring as hell..
@@bryanmerberonio5245 sucks you didn't enjoy it!
Same here. Now I'm sad I'll never know the rest of the story.
the atmosphere of this movie is amazing, not dead silence or unneccesary music, just the sounds of the wind makes its so much more suspenseful
It's not their music lol, the music is taken from another movie called annihilation, which is 10 times better than this crap
@@joshi2070it's a short film lol chill out and you even missed the point of the original comment
@@raccus2719fr☠️
Read before you type next time clown.
@@joshi2070relax bro y you comparing a movie to a short film😭
This feels like The Road but with skinwalkers in it and I love it lmao
dude when that shit started sprinting at the camera I SHIDDED
It’s chilling to hear that almost human voice, screaming for “help! Somebody!” but it’s motion isn’t even human. And at the end I actually got goosebumps when it cut before the skinwalker could come into the shot
Its not even "help, somebody" they cant speak, they make similiar sounds to what they heard from prey
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So creepy how the skinwalker stopped calling for help so abruptly after hearing that watch go off!! Just goes right towards his direction!!! “HEL-“
Time stamp?
@@michaelskooma85372:57
Didn’t even notice that the first time. Fucking hell, that’s scary.
@michaelskooma8537 literally within the first 3 minutes of the movie
@@sethweddle5160the USA trains its military to make sure all such electrical gear is off so it doesn't alert any enemy or ones who might help the enemy. Even loose gear that can make noise should be secured so it doesn't make any noise.
I’m Really Impressed With The Attention To Detail With The “Voice” Of The Skin Walker As I Do Know In Folk Lore Is That The Closer It Sounds The Farther Away It Is But The Farther It Sounds The Closer It Is So When He Starts To Get Chased By It It Sounds Insanely Far..
I need this to be a feature length film. I usually despise skinwalker stuff as it's so ridiculous how misinterpreted it becomes but this was done so well.
TH-cam and tik tok timing lining up perfect🙏🏽😂
I didn’t even know that this was on TikTok😭
Ong I prolly seen the same tiktok you did like 2 seconds ago lmaooo
this shit crazy
@@jaylermoreau is it with the butt naked guy and spot theme music?
@@jaylermoreau I stg, someone in the comments said it was on yt about 5 minutes ago😂
The sound the guy yelling made while calling for help made all the hair on the back of my neck stand up. As soon as the kid heard it; saying "someone needs help" I was like "no... No they don't... Ignore that call!"
I am genuinely terrified of skin walkers and this film had me on the edge of my seat
From the million stories i've read, adding an uncanny growly voice imitating the original one is always more terrifying, like a creature learning how to speak like you each time sounding more and more like you
@@v.richard9993that's when you tell it to eat your ass
Ski walkers are creepy af
shame they didnt bother showing anything
@@Petey0707bro has no clue
I would love to see this as a full length movie. The writing is phenomenal. Watching these people try to survive in a post apocalyptic wasteland while a skinwalker’s running around in the forest is terrifying. Normally I wouldn’t think those 2 concepts would mix but this makes me want to theorize about the skinwalkers and their origins. The context clues when they talk about growing food and when he mentions “the blast” I’d like to believe that nuclear war broke out and the skinwalkers are a result of genetic mutation like Fallout or a paranormal anomaly like S.T.A.L.K.E.R. And hearing the screams it makes sends a chill down my spine. I love how you can only make out the word “help” as it’s other screams sound close to english but not quite. It makes it feel more like a creature than a person as does the way it runs on all fours. This short film is truly a masterpiece. Very well done
Ive seen skin walkers on various occasions, mostly in Arizona, but also in Colorado near the four corners.
The first time, i was a really little kid. And i seen this big completely white dog, snow white, atleast when i was 5 thats what i thought it was.
I went out of the tent to take a leak and seen it waking towards our camp where it simply sat when it got to about a little less than half a football field away. This was at 500am in the summer so it was just breaking dawn.
The experience was odd, firstly it was super curious. Secondly it was something ive never seen before, nor in that area for that matter. The most odd part about my first experience was that the animal displayed what i would call almost a playful demeanor. It nevee got close enough to scare me but wasnt far enough that i felt entirely safe.
Its eyes were piercing, i recall the animals coat being white like it was yesterday, but i cannot recall its eye color. But i do remember them being really pretty almost enchanting, and out of this world.
Why would a snow white massive dog not be noticed by anyone in the pondersoa forests near flagstaff is beyond me, and why would a skinwalker choose white, the worst camouflage ever.
Its mannerisms is what set that animal apart from your average canine, it seemed very aware and conscious, human even.
I tried making noises like small noises not to scare it off but to see what would happen. It would tilt its head and just look at me, its gaze spoke volumes something i have a hard time explaining to folks.
The next was a crow, and after that a coyote. The coyote was an odd one as well, as it seemed to take pleasure in me being frustrated with its presence. At the age of 23 and being 6ft3in 200lbs i wasnt gonna let no coyote intimidate me.
I would call it reading the room, but when i went to scare this thing off it simply sat down legs stretched paws forward and didnt budge, it almost seemed like it was scoffing me. Daring me to come forward, being coy, but my hair raised really really fast.
Ive been around Grizzly bear, moose and a slew of other critters but those three incidents made me wonder about alot of things.
When i spoke to a hopi man about my experiences and told him the stories in the best way i knew how, he stated that ive been visited by them.
He said i could potentially have a gift of sorts, he called it a "thing" like "you got that thing". He never used a term just simply called it a "thing". And thats what attracts them to me. Im white as an icecream cone so i always thought it odd that something from native American cultures would mess with me.
Well thats ignorant, because the color of your skin doesnt dictate whether or not youre visted by a walker.
Has potential 👍🏻
Not going to lie, this film had built up so much suspense in me that when the grand daughter said “The boy is too skinny” I genuinely thought they were cannibals lol. I also appreciate the subtle details that not many other people seem to be talking about; like references to a “blast”, that the cities are unsafe, and so on. It adds interesting world building while not being explicit, adding to the unease as the audience doesn’t know what’s going on. Can’t wait for this to become a feature length film, because I am dead certain you’re going to get you’re filming. See you in theaters! :)
World building, man what a way to describe it! 🤯
@@HighCharity it's a pretty standard phrase, and key process in storytelling. I Definitely agree though. It's a great way to describe it.
If not becausw of you mention it i think i would never came to that conclusion.
That's the way "world-building" is best implemented. The writer may well jot all the details down, but in the actual script just *alludes* to it. Adds to the realism; obvious exposition is not how people really talk.
When the guy takes the coat and gives it to the kid, you can see that there's a hand inside the coat as he's doing so. He was looting a body.
This is literally scarier than anything horror related I've seen in the last 5 years. The use of atmosphere, the rushing wind, the creaking of the tree's, and even when it's quiet, it all sets the tone for how amazing this could be as a feature length film, or even as a miniseries, that way you can really get into the meat of the show.
You must’ve only seen this and like two other things then
@@gbeach85 I am actually a big fan of horror, been watching it all my life, but different things scare people in different ways, but it's all about what you prefer. For example, some people can watch the Grudge and aren't scared at all, while other people are terrified and pissing themselves. It's all about perspective and what works for the viewer. The horror genre of skin walkers just so happens to freak me out on a whole other level, so of course I would find this absolutely terrifying, and also amazing, considering that in the last 5 years most horror movies are about demons, ghosts, witches or zombies, none of which really scare me.
@@user-wl2zl3gf7ndamn
All aspects that are lost on today's filmmaking.
@@SC-gp7kt So true, it is really sad to see, but hopefully this short film will get the recognition it deserves to become a feature film.
The use of the sound of flys at 11:35 is genius it not only tells you there’s a corpse but more importantly reminds you to stay at the edge of your seat as the sound of bugs is naturally off putting to people
Okay so this is actually a perfect example of the exact things in my nightmares. The first scare is actually genuinely what most of the nightmares I can remember look like. The utterly alien look they managed to give to an otherwise human passing creature is.....I have no words. I am DEEPLY shaken. I feel like giving the creature any more camera time would ruin it but this was horror perfection.
Let’s make sure this gets millions of views. You’re better at building suspense than half of horror directors nowadays
for real id watch a movie directed by them
I didn’t feel any suspense whatsoever. The first scene was it. This movie could just be a tiktok and not lose anything
It was suspenseful twice, stop the bs
This was ass what are you talking about
no there was 3 seconds of screen time for the skinwalker
Most of my favorite movies are made on a smaller budget. You really see the passion in these projects. This was “28 days later” level
Honestly the behind the scenes of that movie makes me love it even more. They used most of their money on location in London so they were stuck with home video cameras, YET they made one of the most influential zombie films of this era. Crazy stuff.
@@TheNoobyNoob1 i didn’t know any of that, thats so awesome and makes me love it even more
Not quite
Yeah this film reminds of the blare witch project
Wow this blew my expectations out of the water, I hope you're able to finish the project one day. You've got a knack for the subtle unsettling horror.
Oh yeah you proved the concept works. The first scene in particular is bone chilling, and a movie or series that builds and expands on that tension would be amazing.
According to their lore, the further away they sound the closer they are and vice versa. So after it chased him the first time and it sounded far away it actually would’ve been much closer
I hate to break it to you but that lore only applies to wendigos, skin walkers are a completely different ideology and region. And the reason wendigos can do that is because they are mountain dwelling creatures that use acoustics to alter reality. A skin walker lives in the plains and other such areas, thus they alter reality through their own appearances.
I guess that makes sense, The goal is to get the victim closer, so from far away, It sounds close; making the person believe that they are nearby, and that they can easily find the source of screams; then the closer they get, they get more desperate to find the person so they keep running towards the source. Quite Genius of the skin walker if I do say so myself. But I'm assuming this would only work against Naive Kind-Hearted people, Most people nowadays would run "from" the screams.
@@dreadsummer2766 I thought that was Tikwis, not wendigos?
@@maxwelleckelbarger2734 Yes Tik-Tik or manananggal. They have bat-like wings and when the flapping sounds of their wings sound far it is very close and vice versa. Never seen that tactic applied to a wendigo or skinwalker.
@@pizzaeldante3446kind hearted doesn't equate to stupidity. If I hear someone screaming I'm running the opposite way and calling the police.
It’s crazy how every skinwalker caught on camera always says “somebody help” word for word not “help me pls” or just “help” it always has to be “somebody help” . The theory that it’s mimicking it’s last victim is crazy 😮
The theory i always see about a skin walker screaming "help" is because they do that to lure humans to it.
They aren’t real stop being gullible
@@getbackgang3050bro doesn’t go out in nature
@@TheQuatch44 if you believe a person can shape shift then you need mental help. They are real but not what you people think it is. It’s just a normal person in a disguise which was used a very long time ago not anymore 😂😂
@@getbackgang3050ike “The Village”
I live in Skinwalker territory and take a many a drive onto the deep rez for work early in the morning. Some years back me and my native mate who's super traditional were out in the country scouting. He came across some tracks human it went up some road but suddenly the tracks went weird turning into a weird circle shape then into cow tracks. Sure it was just someone walking onto cow tracks but my friend refused to go further despite us being armed to the teeth and two dogs with us.
Wise friend
I LOVE that whatever it is , hasn’t fully mastered human language. It’s so unsettling. Well done! Can’t wait to see more!❤
It's a Human who mastered Skinwalker language.(🤫)
The field scene is genuinely terrifying. Would love to see this become a full motion picture.
About 4 years ago I went to visit my parents and younger brother. At the time they lived in one of the only houses that had been built in a new development. I stayed in a guest room downstairs. One night, after i had been staying there for almost one week I woke up around 2 a.m. and could not get back to sleep so I turned on the light on and sat with my back against a wall next to a window that had closed wooden shutters on the inside instead of blinds and began reading a book that I brought with me. Sometime soon after 3:00 a.m. I heard my brother's voice very loudly shout my name right outside the wall behind me. It was as if he was standing one foot away on the outside of the house on the other side of the wall I was sitting against. It sounded just like my brother. But, I knew my brother was upstairs in his room asleep. I had a surge of adrenaline and i completely froze. It was terrifying. I sat there frozen for about 10 minutes and then I heard my brother's voice shout my name again, right from the other side of the wall! This time i jumped and sprinted up the stairs to my brothers room. I opened the door to his room and he was there asleep in his bed.
My brother has a disability and a very unique voice. The voice that I heard sounded just like his and it was very clearly and loudly saying my name.
This was one of, if not the most scariest experience of my life and the only supernatural type event that I have ever experienced, and I swear to god that it is a true story.
I think about that night a lot and I have no explanation for what I heard.
Sorry bro,that was me shouting
@@user-sk4wf3ve6z awwww come on man, you said we weren't going to tell him!
Schizophrenia idfk🤷♂️
Bro, you should be ashamed of yourself, youre gonna scare people dude. It's all fun and games until someone starts saying it really happened to them. Then people start to believe.
But, bro if you really heard that.... you are sick and you need to get help buddy.
Happened to me a few times in my life when I heard one of my parents faintly calling my name, usually when I was home alone. I live Europe where skinwalkers aren’t present, I guess I was just really tired and started hearing things, or maybe it was the supernatural
Honestly it would be a dream of mine to be in a movie like this, best concept I’ve probably ever seen
Cant wait to see this in full swing! Seems like an amazing concept, i hope you continue this story!
Saw this little film advertised on tiktok and couldn't resist! I love the concept of skinwalkers and would LOVE to see this movie made into a feature length film. The pacing is just about right too. Scary as shit, having not seen the full face or body of this thing.
I think there's a movie being made. August 22nd
comes out june 17th 2023
@@prys4445 that’s today 🤔
The pacing is horrible nothing happened. Not scary at all and not suspenseful either. Huge waste of time. No climax, plot, or storyline. Sub-par acting and pretty terrible cinematography
@@christiansilva6446were is your short film then? Lets watch it
The fact that it was getting closer at the end gave me goosebumps
The worst part about skinwalkers would be trying to figure out if someone is in danger or thay’re actually a skinwalker
This NEEDS to be a full movie
(The music from annihilation really gave me an extra haunting feel that movie was terrific too)
This needs to be a feature-length film!
It is, it’ll be coming out in August according to IMDb
@@braxtonpierce8768 it just said June 17th for me wtf lol
@@Notkyle388same here lmao im confused
comes out june 17th 2023
@@prys4445 tomorrow?
3:16 being full blooded native and growing up on the Rez this gave me chills because I’ve seen something like this going from sells to casa grande running along the car at night. Very good film
I'd like to hear more details about that and what exactly are the Rez , sells and casa Grande?
@@kostasboicarez, short for reservation, sells and casa grande sound like different parts of said Rez.
@@kostasboica Rez is a reservation. Sells and Casa Grande are town in Arizona. CG is between Tucson and Phoenix. Sells is southwest of Tucson on the Tohono O'odham reservation.
Not too sure which Rez I was still a young one maybe 10ish we were driving and I look out the window and I see a human figure galloping along the car in and out bushes a few of my elders claim to have seen the same things growing up but instead of a human they said it was either a coyote or even a bull running along their car on their hind legs
Yeah, I live on Red Lake, native as well. It’s just eerie here. Either from drugs and crime, but idk what that atmosphere is when I go let my dogs run, can’t shake this off feeling.
This is fantastic. I sincerely hope this is able to continue production. The atmosphere is incredible.
Loved this! My fave bit? 3:14 (the zig-zagging run of the creature!)
I would love to see a part 2 or full movie of this 😃
This was absolutely phenomenal. Not only the cinematography but the sound design and impeccable acting as well. Even the child was an extremely talented actor! What amazing work!!
NPC
@@Encurry08535 What was that?... Hmmm. Must've been the wind
@@jeremygage2356 nah, not the wind it was a chatbot, its trying its best, it just can't say anything interesting cuz it don't have original thoughts
I’m so sad this isn’t a feature length film! I would kill to see more
There's actually a go fund me in the description to support that I think
I can arrange that
There is a full movie just got posted 20 hours ago I’m about to watch it now
@@tuggybear9205you got the link mane I’m trynna watch that too
@@kahlelchristal5429search it up again, it’s like 2 hours long
I would watch a whole series/movie set in this world. Everything about it was just incredible!
Ok, that thing crawling towards the guy gave me chills, that rarely happens to me lol
Hearing the scream get louder at the end as if its chasing after them is terrifying.
jesus christ that crawl made my heart drop and gave me goosebumps. exactly the kind of stuff that creeps me tf out. i genuinely havent had that in years watching scary stuff, thank you!
Yeah first time I had goosebumps watching a horror movie. Don't get me wrong, I get scared shytless when watching them. But this was the first time I got goosebumps. Fooking terrifying
The desert/wasteland wind sound effects while the guy was in a forest annoyed the crap out of me during the whole film, great job awarding that winning
This really sets the tone from the first minute and it is a very atmospheric film and acting is stellar too!
Incredible sound design. I love how the hit at 1:57 isn't very loud, but since it's such a deep and low sound you feel it. It's not overly in your face. Small details like that make films like these fantastic.
The soundtrack is from "annihilation" movie on Netflix
The scariest part in my opinion was when the kid was like"somebody needs your help" this gave me goosebumps
I was actually expecting a close up encounter but I'm thoroughly amazed by the suspense closing it all, leaving lots of room for more mystery. The pacing was nuce for the most part however it could be improved upon. But as an introduction to a set universe it's spot on. Revealing the state of humanity in context to the passing time
The acting of the four actors is excellent, excellent script and production!
This needs to be made into an actual franchise, The plot was brilliant, didnt feel rushed at all despite being 20 mins long, which in an of itself is impressive, atmosphere was set perfectly throughout the entire video, The screams in the beginning made me expect more throughout the video which never came until the end when I didnt expect them, reestablishing that plot point and setting those screams in stone perfectly
THAT WAS SO GOOD! Absolute masterpiece! Setting the pace with the field scene, keeping the audience on edge through the entire video, to pick the pace back up at the end? PLEASE get the funding!
it was a little slow in the middle to be honest, but other than that the concept is great
I hope this gets made into a full feature length film. You've got a good concept here. Post-apocalyptic of some kind but with super creepy skinwalker myths woven in.
They aren't nearly enough supernatural horror features with skin walkers. Look how skin crawl inducing just the short bit here is. When the protagonist looked back through the scope and saw the seemingly human man with the off kilter speech, start running towards him on all fours, I was right there with the protagonist. "That's a big nope, I'm out of here!"
second time watching this, i NEED this as a full movie. Its actually genuinely interesting and keeps me on the edge of my seat.
Oh my lord this is one of the best concept films I’ve ever seen. I truly hope we’re blessed with a feature length film of this. It gave me shivers bro.
As someone who has heard what I believe to be some form of ancient evil creature while I was camping one time, this made the hair on the back of my neck stand up. Very well done.
Go on....
@tx3er68 it happened right when the sun was coming up we were camping by a creek in the woods by my parents house in south Alabama and the only way I can describe the sound is if you mixed a dog and a rooster. It sounded very unnatural and we noped out of there as soon as the sun was up enough to see
@@KELEVRA004 interesting. I've had an encounter while I was hunting in Central VA. I still cannot explain it. The sound it made and the way it moved through the woods. The leaves crunching under its whatever was not a gallop nor a 2 footed run. It was something else. As soon as it seemed like it was right behind my treestand my Dad called for me on the walkie talkie and pulled up to the right of me. I was shaken up for sure. Never hunted that stand again.
@@tx3er68 hard pass for me 😂
rooster dog reminds me of some fox calls, don't doubt there aren't things out there though
i need the full movie. this was unbelievable. at the edge of my seat throughout the whole story, amazing work guys
this HAS to be made into a big screen movie! it will be a HUGE success! i haven’t been enthralled in a short film like this in a long long time and i watch them on the daily. to everyone who had a hand in this - bravo! 🙌
the fact that this is filmed in ireland where i live and there are pine woods and quarries exactly the same next to where i live makes this much more scary
lol
This is spectacular. The aesthetic and feel, the acting, costuming, premise,....all of it. Original story for once too! This had a maturity to it that most directors dream of achieving and the pacing was perfect. I cant say enough. More please!
But nothing actually happened.. So ultimately what is the point of a film like this.. Usually a story has a beginning, middle, and end. The ending here falls flat unfortunately.
@@SurfMastery-kz6je I think the idea was to create a narrative that will prequel something bigger.
You probably need to watch a lot more films before stating things like that. Have you seen The Exorcist, The Shining, Psycho, Texas Chainsaw? If not, I highly recommend them.
@@SurfMastery-kz6jeYou're probably just too stupid to appreciate anything that isn't a superhero movie.
I wish this was a full length movie. Absolutely amazing for a 22 minute film!
“That’s not right, maybe I’ll have another look-“
3:15
“OH GREAT HEAVENS!!!” *Runs far away*
This has a lot of potential. The setting and overall tone fits well with a concept like this. This would be a great film to really play with sound based tension. Solid proof of concept!
Watched the whole 23m movie and commented on it 17m after it was posted🤨🤨
@@michaelpliscott218 I commented while watching, please don't call the cops 😞
@@lookaway1I’m calling the cops fs
Lights out 2016( lights out 2013) , come play 2020 ( Larry 2017) , and smile 2022 ( Laura hasn’t slept 2019 ) * in the brackets are the short films names * were award winning short films and the movie industry saw that asking the creators for rights and making some of the best and scariest horror movies I’ve ever seen this short film has potential and it’s not gonna take long before the movie industry see this amazing piece of art ❤️
I need another episode please 😭😭😭😭😭 this is so good!! Thank you for putting this on TH-cam!
This was amazing the atmosphere the suspense everything was spot on, need more movies/short films like this
The way the last scream gets increasingly louder from far in the distance to within 20 feet, i can only imagine how fast it was chasing them
Utterly terrifying, anything that comes running at you with speed is horrifying. Hope to one day see a full length film of this.
this was amazing I hope there will be more of this someday like even a full on movie, it was awesome to watch thank you
I have a huge thing for storytelling, so I'll theorize and analyze to my hearts content, and I have to say that this does it amazingly. It doesn't exposition dump, but instead drip-feeds you little pieces through small amounts through the dialogue and environment
My theory: A nuclear war has happened, that much is clear with the sunlight burning his hand (Ozone damage) and, him and the old man coughing from radiation sickness, him clearly saying that he wants to get as far away from the blast as he can.
Then there's the 'Skinwalkers', which I don't believe have any connection to the Navajo legends, as this clearly takes place in England, but share many similarities with them (aside form animal shapeshifting).
An interesting line is when he says "I'm not one of them" signifying that these things are common enough for groups of survivors to know about, and this is where I go into pure speculation. I believe that those in the immediate radiation zone had it affect their minds, sending them into cannibalistic madness. Think the ghouls from the Fallout series, but are in a in-between stage of intelligence, having enough to be capable of luring people in.
nice theory!
Nope not reading all that!
@@NorthernMouse52Who asked, exactly?
How can you tell its in England? Looks like the Midwest to me
The british accents give it away @@thezackast2752
I love the skinwalker legend. This is an incredible depiction of it! I'd LOVE to see this as a full feature film!
Funny how much you can love something until you live in it’s backyard
@@docholliday9741never meet your idols
It has been so long since a film has actually made me afraid. Please for the love of god make more. I'm begging you!
Joking aside this is genuinely such a good film, and the talent with the actors, the writing, the angles, the directing! If all of this just gets funded, then it will likely be one of the greatest shows to come out within the decade!
I need more haha i didnt want to stop watching it, you need to make this a full film
Bloody hell Cathal, that was really good. Haunting, suspenseful and the skinwalker was terrifying. I hope this gets made as a full-length. Good luck to you 👏👏👏
We need a “second movie” for this. This was incredible 👍👍
This is really good. It captures the grounded post apocalyptic vibe perfectly. Also, the constantly looming dread of a shapeshifting predator.
The thing is, the fear of the skinwalker is a much different vibe. I grew up on the Ute Reservation and our farm is a few miles away from skinwalker ranch. The Skinwalker never tries to fool you into thinking it's human. It usually turns into something absurd. For instance: a species of bird that doesn't exist, or a wolf in the middle of the southwest desert where there are no wolves. If it does imitate a human it adds something obviously inhuman as a mockery. For instance, the face of a dog, or ridiculously long body hair that sticks out in every direction. Although, I have heard of a once common sighting that was a vagrant who looked entirely human except his eyes glowed red like the eye shine of a coyote and ran as fast as a car.
The Skinwalker doesn't hunt. It doesn't lure you. It is always watching and it antagonizes you. It's always messing with you. The way to deal with it is ignore it. The strangest things you see, like surgically precise animal bisections, or a creature that looks like a hybrid wolf/bear, you act as rationally as possible. That's why people don't report animal mutilations or paranormal sightings in the area anymore. The Utes refuse to even speak of the thing or recognize it's existence, although it plays a huge part in their current culture.
The last thing about a skinwalker is that although sometimes it is described as either a demon or a witch, from what I understand from Utes or Navajos is that it either currently is or used to be human.
But I do understand that this is a variation of the creature set in Ireland.
the Navajo version is they used to be a human.
@@crazeguy26 Exactly. The Ute version is the same as the Navajo version. The Navajo used to own all of Eastern Utah, but the Utes betrayed them, pushed them all down to Arizona, and took their lands. When the Navajo left, they cursed the Utes with the Skinwalker, which prior to this didn't exist in the Ute tradition.
Oooh, that sounds scary. Good thing skinwalkers don't actually exist.
@@DeadPixel1105let them play make believe.
@@moth300y’all both some atheist nerds
This should definitely be fully developed into a feature film! This had me sucked in from the start, better writing than most of Hollywood! Seriously this was so good and eerie and the fact that you learned so much about the post-apocalyptic world just from the inferences the characters made was awesome!
Really solid all round, great sounscape/soundtrack, good actors and characters- especially the dad of the boy- and a genuinely creepy moment in the scene with the man calling for help. Good direction. I liked the use of letterbox it always feels more cinematic with the black panels.