The Old Chair

Not bad for a short film. Within it's small time frame it managed to kick out two or three jump scares. The story is really only a few sentences of dialogue and it's really all you need. The plot is simple enough, it's basically a young woman gets a chair for free from craigslist and, well what's wrong with the chair? The music/sound was really well done and set the tone for the duration. The makeup was excellent as well. A few horror name actors/actresses pop up in the film (no pun intended, if you've seen it). It definitely goes to show you don't need a fifty million dollar budget and special effects left and right to create horror. Check it out, it's only four and a half minutes of your life.

You can't have sky-high expectations for a horror short that runs for just about four minutes. That said, this Ring-inspired story is pretty solid given the limited runtime. It builds suspense gradually and doesn't rely on jump scares to deliver its conclusion.

Instead, it does something I actually enjoy: it gives us multiple apparent endings in a row. Some people refer to this as Return of the King Syndrome-named after the Lord of the Rings film that seemed to end several times before it finally did-because the film keeps wrapping up again and again, even after what seemed like a perfectly good stopping point. But honestly? I kind of love false endings.