Mr. Eryams (2004)

Winner for Best Film in Fangoria’s famed Blood Drive competition, the thirteen-minute short Mr. Eryams (2004) is a blood-curdling, atmospheric foray into the world of the paranormal. Laura Hofrichter plays a young woman who’s possessed by spirits of the undead, requiring a Catholic priest (R. Curtis Brown) to commence with a ritual housecleaning. In fewer than fifteen minutes, skilled director B.C. Furtney manages to thrill and frighten with unparalleled vigor. No sooner does Hofrichter’s lifeless body look due for the morgue than the bewitching blonde is reanimated for a bit of bewitching, if bloody, writhing.