In honor of its five year anniversary (I can't really quite remember, though it didn't screen anywhere until 2009), I present to you another one of my short films, this one the first in four installments of the
SLEEPY-TIME TIME series.
It is described thusly:
"A young man's dreams are interrupted by a ghastly spectre."
Originally conceived in one manic night as an installment in a series
of jokey, eerie public service announcements, SLEEPY-TIME TIME took on a
life of its own and has, thus far, spawned three sequels. Based on
director Sean Gill's personal experiences with sleep paralysis.
I hope you enjoy!
Sleepy-Time Time from
Sean Gill on
Vimeo.
The face of the ghoul was amazingly horrifying. Loved it. Also watched Laughter is the Music of The Gods and enjoyed it too. May I ask what inspired the PSA aspect of the films? Were they all inspired by sleep paralysis?
ReplyDeleteAnon.,
ReplyDeleteVery glad you enjoyed! As to the PSA aspect, I had been making a lot of horror shorts around that time and thought that it'd be sort of funny to add a message at the end, as if these films were really bizarro, roundabout ways of delivering perplexing public service announcements.
Often I made the film first, and then tried to think of the most counterintuitive lesson that one could take away from it. I made about six or seven, and not all were based on sleep paralysis. Later, I decided that several of the films actually played better "straight" all the way through, and removed the accompanying messages, but I still stand by the ones that remain.