Fishwife
Written & Directed by Beth Park
2021, England
A woman’s solitary existence is interrupted by a pair of strangers with grim results in this highly accomplished piece of Lovecraftian horror.
Watch this one as a double-feature with Fredrik S. Hana’s classic Autumn Harvest (2014).
Sound from the Deep
Written & Directed by Joonas Allonen & Antti Laasko
2017, Finland
After failing to find adequate spots for deep-sea oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean, a ship’s crew decides to change course in order to investigate an unusual sound.
Moving into uncharted waters, the crew makes a life-altering discovery.
This very ambitious short successfully puts an environmental spin on the literary work of H.P. Lovecraft.
Autumn Harvest
Directed by Fredrik S. Hana
Written by Fredrik S. Hana & Marius Lunde
2014, Norway
A suicidal sailor finds a grim new reason to live in this very ambitious and superb black & white slice of Lovecraftian horror.
Hana previously made the serial killer short film Angst, Piss & Drid in 2013 and is currently on a very successful festival run with his latest horror short called Sister Hell.
Angst, Piss & Drid has its admirers, which I don’t count myself among, but Autumn Harvest instantly establishes Hana as a talent to watch very closely.