When a workaholic city police officer and her laid-back partner try to stop a dishevelled girl staggering down the middle of a country road, they discover she’s being stalked by some unseen entity with a horrifying ultimatum: you stop moving, you die.
Direction
Greenwood stretches 8 minutes into eternity.
Practical Effects
Creature design that haunts peripheral vision.
Acting
Blackburn's physical panic is uncomfortably real.
Director
Emily Greenwood
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Greenwood made this as a calling card for a feature — the creature's rules deliberately echo sleep paralysis folklore.
James Swanton's Still Man performance was entirely improvised movement; he studied spiders and dying insects for months.
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