

15 minutes. One quarantine. Zero patience for your attention span.
Everyday people live through a government mandated quarantine during a global pandemic while desperate scientists race to find a cure before it's too late.
Direction
Russ Emanuel squeezes feature-level dread into 15 minutes
Practical Effects
Low-budget pandemic horror that feels uncomfortably real
Director
Russ Emanuel
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released in 2024, this short weaponizes fresh collective trauma — pandemic horror evolved from fantasy into documentary-adjacent nightmare.
Sean Kenney (Professor Bellows) played Captain Pike in the original Star Trek pilot — now he's transmitting doom instead of exploring space.