Hello, Tiffany. I ever do so apologize.
Main Cast: Hunter Hope Shanthi, Vivian Tam
Director: Ty Huffer
It’s Christmas Eve and Tiffany has just put her daughter to bed. She goes downstairs to spend some time with her husband before bed, but finds her husband dead on the floor. That’s when the chaotic elf attacks and the next 6 minutes of this 7-minute short are taken up with the wildest, bloodiest all-out brawl I’ve seen in a long time.
I’m talking about the short horror film THREE HOUSES DOWN, directed by Ty Huffer, and streaming on new horror app Screamify, which I pay $2.99 a month for and barely ever use because the selections are still limited. But with the addition of these new shorts, I might just be visiting the site more often, especially if they’re all of this same quality.
THREE HOUSES DOWN is a short, sharp shock of a flick, just the thing to wake me up one night when I wanted nothing more than to go to bed, but had to take a kid to work later in the evening and had to stay awake.
Hunter Hope Shanthi as Tiffany keeps the energy up facing off against Vivian Tam’s killer elf, and Huffer shows us just enough to keep us engaged without distracting us with a lot of unnecessary details during the fight. And the entire thing is one long fight scene. I worried at first that he wouldn’t be able to stretch the fight to fill the entire space, but he managed, and what we got was super fun, just gory enough to satisfy, and short enough to not overstay its welcome.
From what little information I have been able to find about this one, it won 17 awards on the festival circuit and led to a development deal between Huffer and Screamify for a full-length feature later in 2026.
While I can’t recommend everyone rush out and subscribe to Screamify just to watch this one, I can say if you already have it—which you don’t—then definitely give this one a watch when you have a spare ten minutes to kill. Or, you can watch it right here.
C. Dennis Moore is the author of over 60 published short stories and novellas in the speculative fiction genre. Most recent appearances are in the Dark Highlands 2, What Fears Become, Dead Bait 3 and Dark Highways anthologies. His novels are Revelations, and the Angel Hill stories, The Man in the Window, The Third Floor, and The Flip.
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