14 minutes. One red-eye. Zero chance of landing safely. Buckle up, buttercup.
Vessel is the story of the passengers of Flight 298, a red-eye on its way from Boston to San Francisco. Midway through the flight the passengers encounter an otherworldly force and are subsequently thrown into a fight for their lives. The story focuses on Danny (an everyday traveler), Emma (a flight attendant), Chloe (an unattended underage passenger) and Jim and Murray (the two pilots).
Practical Effects
Creature design that punches way above budget weight
Direction
Baker squeezes feature-level tension into 14 minutes
Sound
Engine drone becomes its own character of dread
Director
Clark Baker
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Clark Baker later directed episodes of Stranger Things and The Haunting of Hill House, proving this short was no fluke.
Released during the found-footage boom, Vessel rejected shaky-cam for classical suspense—arguably why it still holds up while contemporaries aged like milk.
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