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.

In a utopian world where happiness is absolute, a suicide crisis threatens the very existence of humanity. As countless lives are lost and the global happiness index continues to decline, the AI Government assigns Mimosa the mission of restoring happiness and bringing population growth back to the world. By chance, Mimosa encounters Ash, a man laughing at an advertisement featuring her face. Upon discovering that his happiness level is far below that of everyone else, she sets out to cure him. But as she delves deeper into Ash’s condition, Mimosa uncovers a key that could change the fate of their world forever.
"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.
A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, though its feminism may be unintentional, cannot exist without its focus on women reclaiming power. The movie is feminist by definition, even if Amirpour didn’t write it with that in mind. A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night is mesmerizing, poetic, and stunning, both for its portrayal of feminist ideas and its powerful story that is both horrific and subtly romantic at once.
Although Tuner is technically a heist movie, music and sound are woven into almost every aspect of Niki’s story. That’s what made Tuner such a pleasant surprise. I expected a film about music and discovered a heist movie, only to find that music was still at the heart of it.
Like many things, like animals and people, they always evolve. When the first humans walked the Earth, they originated from Africa and were all black.
'An American Werewolf in London' possesses a possible queer reading in the way it envisions a heterosexual romance being undone by the presence of a creature who embodies self-contentment in the face of social alienation.