M is for Messiah
Directed by Nicholas Humphries
Screenplay by Bob Woolsey
2013, Canada
Fans of Robin Hardy’s The Wicker Man and Ben Wheatley’s Kill List will be especially attracted to veteran shorts director Humphries’ brief, enigmatic and captivating look at the end of the world made for the ABCs of Death 2 contest.
Humphries also directed the award-winning horror short The Little Mermaid, which despite being very popular in the horror shorts world, fails to have the same impact as M is for Messiah.
The director went on to make the feature films Death Do Us Part (2014) and Charlotte’s Song (2015).