Shorts

Since 1998 ArieScope Pictures has always created short films in between our feature films and television shows. These “just for fun” projects remind us where we came from and keep our original spirit alive and unbroken while operating within the grueling Hollywood system. Here you’ll find our annual Halloween short films (always made with the same rule of “one night, no budget, and just for fun”) as well as many other side projects that we’ve created over the years!

HALLOWEEN SOCKS (2023)

A mean king is scared of Halloween in this old fashioned fairy tale. In compliance with the 2023 Writers Guild and Screen Actors Guild strikes, ArieScope enlisted some outside (and unusual) help to pull off our milestone 25th annual Halloween short film!

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HALLOWEEN COSTUME CRUELTY (2022)

The 24th annual Halloween short film from ArieScope Pictures is a public service announcement about a problem that far too many children face every Halloween. Won’t you please help?

GHOST DOG (2021)

When a broken hearted man’s Halloween wish comes true he winds up paying a price he never saw coming. Starring Ed Ackerman (HATCHET 2, FROZEN), ArieScope’s 23rd annual Halloween short film turns every pet owner’s dream into a nightmare.

FULL SIZE (2020)

When a global health crisis forces filmmaker and Halloween enthusiast Adam Green to take a year off from his tradition of giving out full size candy bars to Trick or Treaters, his reputation as the most generous guy in the neighborhood comes back to haunt him.  The coronavirus pandemic may have ruined Halloween for most people in 2020, but ArieScope’s 22nd annual Halloween short film proved that not even a worldwide plague could stop us from celebrating the greatest holiday of the year!

PUMPKIN DICK (2019)

Three kids try and scare each other by playing a spooky game on Halloween night. Merrick Hanna, Presley Alexander, and Bryson Robinson star in ArieScope’s 21st annual Halloween short film.

THE INTERVENTION (2018)

All good things must come to an end. Or do they? Adam Green comes face to face(s) with one of his worst nightmares in the 20th annual ArieScope Halloween short film. Featuring an enormous cast from our two decades of Halloween shorts, THE INTERVENTION is the biggest short film in ArieScope history!

FOR THE LOVE OF HALLOWEEN (2018)

In 1998 Adam Green and Will Barratt threw together a short film called “Columbus Day Weekend” to screen at a Halloween party.  Little did they know that it would give birth to an annual tradition that would span two decades and spawn a feature film and television production studio that would become a leader of the indie horror scene.  FOR THE LOVE OF HALLOWEEN is a feature-length documentary film featuring all of your favorite key players from the ArieScope family as they take a walk down memory lane and share the candid stories behind their 20 years of Halloween shorts.

IGNITOR “Hatchet (The Ballad of Victor Crowley)” 2018

The music video for IGNITOR’s “Hatchet (The Ballad of Victor Crowley)” – the theme song from Adam Green’s VICTOR CROWLEY, the 4th installment in the HATCHET franchise.  Pick up IGNITOR’s new record “Haunted By Rock & Roll” wherever heavy metal music is sold!  Out now on ArieScope Records/EMP Label Group.

A HOLLISTON HALLOWEEN (2017)

The cast of HOLLISTON finds themselves in a scary situation when a rehearsal goes horribly wrong.  ArieScope’s 19th annual Halloween short film stars Adam Green, Joe Lynch, Laura Ortiz, Corri English, and more!

THE ROAD TO FRIGHTFEST PART 4: “On the Road Again” (2017)

“The Douche Brothers” talk themselves into all kinds of new trouble as they once again attempt to drive from Hollywood to London in this special vignette that opened the 2017 UK FrightFest Film Festival.  Chock full of inside jokes for the FrightFest audience and featuring cameos that brought the house down, “On the Road Again” marked Adam Green and Joe Lynch’s first new ROAD TO FRIGHTFEST episode in 7 years!