Gillian MacGregor

David Fraser

Nik Wood Jones

Andy Sidwell

Steve Crittall

Brian Barnes

Matt Aucott

Lauren Hughes

Roger Thomas

Jessica Blackman

Kai Fraser

Maurice Ashkenazi-Bakes

Berni Snarba

Courteney Stokes

Adam Ozozturk

Loraine Morris

Lowell Johnson

Helen Logan

Horror

The Urge

The Urge is a psychological horror film that isolates the feeling of addiction and gives it some horrible consequences. 

Gillian MacGregor plays the office worker who is psychologically tormented by her addiction, her urge, to her cigarettes. The entire six minutes of the film show the rising struggle she has to keep her urges under control. 

Sometimes, as witnessed in the film, those urges take on a mind of their own and leave some dastardly consequences. 

The film is meant to be a metaphor, but six minutes may have been a touch too long or a touch too short. In a 3-5 minute short film, you can condense the rising aggravation to show the absurdity of an addiction and how quickly those urges overtake a person, and in a 12-15 minute short film, you can explore a more gradual rise and a stronger, more terrifying falloff. 

It's definitely unique, but as it stands, The Urge leaves me unsatisfied, wanting a little more.

English

Trailer for the award-winning psychological horror short ‘The Urge’