ALTER Horror Short Film - "La Noria"
"La Noria" deftly subverts audience expectations as it explores childhood grief, anxieties, and pain. The award-winning short shows us that often our monsters are often sprung from our darkest places.

"Anti Late-Night Snack Club" is a gathering where three members, each struggling with the aftermath of a breakup, the loss of a beloved pet, or the stress of work, come together to overcome their respective challenges. While meditating and strengthening their resolve, a surprise order of midnight snacks arrives, tempting them all. How can they resist this temptation?
"La Noria" deftly subverts audience expectations as it explores childhood grief, anxieties, and pain. The award-winning short shows us that often our monsters are often sprung from our darkest places.
“To be universal, you have to get specific”: while the film does not attempt to provoke discussions about queerness or race, those watching closely may find something resonant in Sorrentino’s love letter to the Naples of his youth.
Gritty and bleak are the best words to describe this film. There’s nothing happy about it.
This year, in light of the pandemic and the inability to gather with our loved ones, a few of our staff members reviewed their favorite holiday films with the hope of recreating some of the sentimentality that reminds us of home.
The major flaw of the series is that it’s hosted on Netflix and barely makes malicious comments about it despite being focused on the lives of people directly affected by the Capitalist mentality of the OTT corporation.
A strong representation of African Americans in this film features evil spirits and horror-themed elements.