11 minutes. One S.W.A.T. team. Zero chance you're sleeping tonight.
A S.W.A.T. team answers a call for a missing police officer sent out on a domestic disturbance call. What they find is anything but routine.
Direction
Clarke Mayer wrings maximum dread from 11 minutes and a hallway.
Sound
Radio static and breathing become instruments of terror.
Director
Clarke Mayer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Clarke Mayer shot this as a proof-of-concept while working as a camera operator on commercial sets, using actual S.W.A.T. tactical advisors for authenticity.
Released during the found footage gold rush of 2012, it became a festival circuit darling precisely for being lean where most entries were bloated — no mythology, just immediate dread.
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