14 minutes of pure maternal dread that'll make you side-eye your own dreams.
After a terrifying and deeply disturbing nightmare, stay-at-home mom Taylor wakes in a panic, convinced that the horrific events she dreamed about must never come to pass. As she prepares for moving day, tension with her husband, Thomas, and son, Mike, only fuels her growing fear. But when eerie details from her nightmare start manifesting in reality, Taylor becomes desperate to alter the course of events, doing everything in her power to prevent her worst fears from coming true.
Acting
Katie Parker sells unraveling motherhood in real-time.
Direction
Bandelli compresses feature-length dread into 14 lean minutes.
Director
Joe Bandelli
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Joe Bandelli directed this as a proof-of-concept for a feature expansion, casting Katie Parker after her viral turn in Mike Flanagan's Oculus short.
The 'moving day' setting isn't arbitrary — horror often weaponizes transitional spaces where normal rules suspend, and Bandelli exploits that liminal dread ruthlessly.
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