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March 2023 Short Horror Releases on ALTER

If you’re into short horror, the folks at ALTER have you covered.  Rue Morgue wants to make sure you’re up-to-date on all of the cool stuff they have coming up, so each month we’ll be highlighting their upcoming releases.  Take a look at what they have planned for March 2023:

Leopard Heels (March 2)
Director: Chris Turner
A job interview turns sinister when misogyny and malice constrict around Renée Hart. Is it a career opening, or the venomous jaws of a trap?

Let Me Go (March 7)
Director: Destry Allyn Spielberg
A psychological thriller about a young veteran whose sense of reality is fraying, and the psychiatrist who treats him.

Requiem (March 9)
Director: Emma J Gilbertson
1605, against the backdrop of the witch trials. It’s a coming of age story, following Evelyn as she engages in a game of cat and mouse against her father, Minister Gilbert, in order to be with Mary, the woman she loves.

Hangry (March 14)
Director: Bola Ogun
When teenage Rae realizes her stepfather has been stealing her mother’s medication as her mother inches closer and closer to death, she has to make a decision regardless of her morality… Quiet. Calculated. Strong. And now fearless. LeRoy will find out who his stepdaughter is when her back is against the wall… literally.

Leash (March 16)
Director: Harry Lighton
June 2016. In their first ever European Championships, Wales march through to the semi-finals. For a girl gang in small-town South Wales, the line between patriotism and xenophobia becomes blurred.

Unlucky Charms (March 17)
Director: AB Theorin
Late one night, a bored cashier collects all three toys from a box of Magic Munchos and unwittingly unleashes the ancient evil that lies within…

 

Chicks (March 21)
Director: Geena Marie Hernandez
A girly, cotton-candy colored slumber party quickly unravels when a shy teen becomes the center of her friends’ bizarre nighttime ritual.

The Leerie (March 23)
Director: Joseph Daly
In 1899, a Scottish lamplighter facing redundancy is haunted by nightmarish visions of an electric future.

Kalley’s Last Review (March 28)
Director: Julia Bailey Johnson
Aspiring beauty vlogger Kalley is positively determined to finish her first sponsored review video for an unknown brand’s chemical peel… and it doesn’t seem to be going so well.

The Rotting of Casey Culpepper (March 30)
Director: Daniel Slottje
A girl battling leukemia and her single father fall into a well of paranoia when the girl experiences visions of a tumor-covered creature.

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