An inventor creates an electrical torch that reveals a hidden world layered upon our own - filled with beautiful spirits, strange creatures, and dangerous phantoms.
Practical Effects
Creature effects that punch way above the micro-budget.
Cinematography
Smart use of light as both threat and revelation.
Direction
Preksta builds a whole mythology in under half an hour.
Director
Christopher Preksta
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in and around Pittsburgh for roughly the cost of a used car, proving regional filmmaking can out-creep studio budgets.
Part of a wave of 2010s 'elevated short horror' that proved YouTube could incubate talent before studios came calling — Preksta later directed for TV.