Your identity is the monster. Sleep tight.
An experimental horror short based on the actor's individual real life experiences, being torn between two parts of their identity.
Acting
Cast drawing from lived experience — no performance, pure exorcism.
Direction
Kunnap weaponizes autobiography; every frame is confession.
Director
Melissa Kunnap
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Experimental horror shorts by women drawing from personal trauma are reshaping the genre — this follows the lineage of 'The Babadook' and 'Relic' but stripped to bone.
Kunnap directed AND stars, suggesting the 'torn' duality may mirror her own creative/performative split.
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