Gaslighting Takes a Gory Turn in Horror Short Upstairs

Writer-director Phillip Trow’s brief Upstairs is tense from the beginning, as a mother and two of her two grownup kids await the arrival of the household’s different daughter, who’s bringing her boyfriend to fulfill them for the primary time. A way of dread hangs closely over the desk, and it solely will increase because the meal continues.

To say far more would spoil this horror brief earlier than you watch it, however let’s simply say the household’s marketing campaign to make youthful daughter Jennifer (Sorcha Groundsell) imagine she’s mentally unstable feels distinctly fishy as hell from the start. But why? What are they hiding? What’s the true story behind that current household tragedy? And why shouldn’t their dinner visitor dare to enterprise upstairs?

Here’s the official description of this brief, which io9 discovered on YouTube horror platform Alter: “Jennifer Saint finally receives validation that she’s not delusional when her late father reaches out from beyond the grave to confirm that their dark family secret is in fact the truth.”

The build-up is nice—that look the twins trade when the boyfriend agrees to “nip upstairs”—and the payoff is superb. You nearly want the YouTube thumbnail didn’t give away the ugly twist, nevertheless it’s additionally an efficient tease to let you recognize that terrors are certainly ready on the finish of Upstairs. Look how comfortable she is! 

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