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Stars: Iwan Rheon, Katelyn Mager, Brendan Taylor, Jessie Fraser, Steve Bradley, Barbara Wallace, Trevor Gemma, Natasha Quirke, Leala Selina, Casey Strandquist | Written by Jessica Leigh Clark-Bojin, Bob Woolsey, Meagan Hotz, Lindsey Mann | Directed by Nicholas Humphries

A horror version of The Little Mermaid sounds like the best and worst idea for a movie but that’s exactly how Mermaid’s Curse is described.

To add some other strangeness to proceedings this story is set in 1930s Oklahoma, America and a family run business that involves five sisters singing and dancing. And we get to watch a lot of 1930s-style singing and dancing, which isn’t exactly what I expected. In among that we get some gangsters who offer to save the family business but as with all gangsters they have some unpleasant conditions to the deal. You might be thinking how exactly this all links up with a mermaid and...

Stars: Iwan Rheon, Katelyn Mager, Brendan Taylor, Jessie Fraser, Steve Bradley, Barbara Wallace, Trevor Gemma, Natasha Quirke, Leala Selina, Casey Strandquist | Written by Jessica Leigh Clark-Bojin, Bob Woolsey, Meagan Hotz, Lindsey Mann | Directed by Nicholas Humphries

A horror version of The Little Mermaid sounds like the best and worst idea for a movie but that’s exactly how Mermaid’s Song is described.

To add some other strangeness to proceedings this story is set in 1930s Oklahoma, America and a family run business that involves five sisters singing and dancing. And we get to watch a lot of 1930s-style singing and dancing, which isn’t exactly what I expected. In among that we get some gangsters who offer to save the family business but as with all gangsters they have some unpleasant conditions to the deal. You might be thinking how exactly this all links up with a mermaid and...

Every year, one of the most buzzed about programs at Viff is "Must See BC" which highlights locally made projects and considering how many productions, both TV and film, call Vancouver home, the quality of these tends to be good but even by that standard, Charlotte's Song looks particularly impressive.

A project tightly produced by Jessica Leigh Clark-Bojin and Lindsey Mann of Done Four Productions, screen writer Robert Woolsey and director Nicholas Humphries (of "Riese: The Series" and The Little Mermaid fame), [Continued ...]...

Following up on my previous article, “Watch 15 Great Horror Short Films,” which received a very positive response, I’ve researched and collected 13 more superb horror short films. As with the first article, I limited the choices to stand-alone live-action horror short films not produced for an anthology film and the selections were narrowed down by availability.

In further keeping with the criteria of the first article, animated horror short films and horror-comedy short films were excluded from consideration as both of these categories would make good subjects for their own individual articles. Sorry, Brutal Relax and Fist of Jesus fans.

It should also be noted that a number of highly regarded horror shorts readers might clamor to see in an article like this such as Ryan Haysom’s Yellow continue their long festival runs and have not been posted for online viewing and were therefore not considered for this piece.

The Little Mermaid, a dark fantasy/horror short that landed the top prize at La's Screamfest in 2011, and which currently ranks 4th among the most popular shorts in our Screening Room, is now on track to become a feature film, going before the cameras in Vancouver, BC this September. The feature version involves visitors to an Oklahoma 1930s sideshow of “Living Aquatic Oddities” who become trapped underground with the creatures after a freak sandstorm. The short's creators, including director Nicholas Humphries, producer Lindsey Mann and makeup FX supervisor Sarah Elizabeth, are all onboard for the feature version, joined by writer Bob Woolsey. The new film will expand its assortment of creatures, all of which will be created via practical effects. "Dark fantasy is a great genre,” says Little Mermaid executive producer and production designer Jessica Leigh Clark-Bojin. “We all love these classic worlds and characters, but as we've aged our...