Halloween Shorts

In 1998 Adam Green and Will Barratt made the short film COLUMBUS DAY WEEKEND where Jason Voorhees and Michael Myers stalked the same campsite by mistake and then fell in love. It was simply made as a fun thing to screen for a few friends at a local Halloween party, but with that short film ArieScope Pictures was born. Since that fateful Halloween, the core group of the ArieScope team has made it an annual tradition to get together each October and make a “Halloween Short Film” for the web. It’s a way to celebrate the past year and remind ourselves that the work doesn’t always have to be so serious. For some of us it’s like a reset button each year when we can sit back and laugh while we remind ourselves why we ever started doing this in the first place. The rules of the Halloween short have always been simple: A one night shoot, there can be no budget, we just do it for fun, and the short has to have some sort of relation to the greatest holiday of the year. Below you’ll find the entire collection of our annual Halloween shorts for your viewing enjoyment.

Steven’s Room (2003)

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Ever wonder why we carve pumpkins on Halloween night? One couple learns the hard way just how serious the legend of “Jack” is and why you never, ever blow out the Jack O’ Lantern before midnight.

Oh, Sherrie (2002)

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When Craig met Sherrie at a party back in 1989, emotions ran high, sparks flew, and Sherrie wound up being stalked. Shot on film and one of the biggest productions in ArieScope Halloween short film history, OH SHERRIE remains one of our very favorite short films that we’ve ever made.

Stagefright (2001)

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Based on writer/director Adam Green’s real life phobia of public bathrooms, our 2nd annual Halloween short was shot on film, features the biggest cast ever used in an ArieScope short, and remains one of the most ambitious productions of all of our Halloween short films.

Columbus Day Weekend (1998)

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When Jason Voorhees and Michael Myers stalk the same campsite by mistake, horny teens are slashed and true love and companionship is found.  Created merely as a joke to screen at an upcoming Halloween party in 1998, COLUMBUS DAY WEEKEND may be the most amateur thing we’ve ever made… but it was our very first short and the one that started it all for ArieScope Pictures.  Keep an eye out for the first use of the “sander to the face gag” which we perfected a decade later in HATCHET.