Short Film: Behind (2022)

Synopsis

The story of a regression therapy session diving a girl deeply into her distant memories. Cold, strain and fear soon materialize as well as disease and melancholy, past, present and future. It’s Yog-Sothoth, the Lovecraftian cosmic entity who knows the gate, is the gate, is the key and guardian of the gate.

A magic circle, an arcane book, an old VHS taking back in 1980: the death tolls of the Iran-Iraq War that cost more than a million lives. The girl is the key to the other dimension, while archival footage shows us horror and destruction. Shivers down your spine.’

Commentary

An old book in the mail. A videotape. Hypnosis regression. It’s all pretty mundane—until it’s not.

The atmosphere and the music really make this one. There’s nearly nothing in the way of special effects, but you know what’s behind that door.