14 minutes of rural dread that'll make you side-eye every family heirloom.
A Black family in rural Vermont attempts to live a life of solitude and cope with the ghosts living on their property.
Direction
Lockhart's patient, atmospheric rural dread.
Cinematography
Vermont landscapes as beautiful menace.
Acting
Villier's wordless grief carries everything.
Director
Annalise Lockhart
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rare Black-led folk horror set in rural New England, subverting the genre's typical whiteness and urban focus. Lockhart deliberately centers Black agrarian history often erased from both horror and American pastoral narratives.
The 14-minute runtime forces compression of generational trauma into image and gesture rather than exposition—the family never explains the ghosts because they literally cannot, trapped in the same silence that preserved the haunting.
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