Horror Short Showcase: ‘First Night in the New House’

Written by Scott Edwards 

It has been known to take a while to get used to a new house, especially if it is an old, new house. With all of the creaks and knocks coming from all around, it is difficult to be able to feel comfortable. But what if you feel like there is someone else in the house with you as well? It can be very difficult to get that feeling out of the back of your head that says you are being watched, unless you can prove otherwise. A new house, an old house, an empty house, an oversized house, it is all the same when the shadows are playing games with your eyes.
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It’s a dark and windy night in the middle of nowhere when a young woman is awoken from her sleep. Hearing what she thinks is snoring, she turns on her flashlight and gives the room a good look over, and the noise stops for the time being. Trying to go back to sleep, the snoring comes on again and this time louder. Jumping out of bed to see if there is anyone in the room with her, she finds that it is clear and heads out into the hallway to see if it is her parents making the annoying noise. 

Opening up her parents’ bedroom door, she does not hear the same sound and her mother wakes up long enough to ask her what is going on. Telling her mother that it must be father snoring, she jokingly asks if mother can smother him or something, so she can get some sleep. But mother responds with an answer that the young woman did not expect, saying that father has not returned home for the night as of yet. Bewildered as to where the sound could be coming from, the young woman goes back to bed and the snoring comes on stronger once again and she jumps out of bed. Not seeing anyone above or below the covers, she tosses her sheet back on the bed only to reveal that she is in fact not alone in her room, but what does this unseen visitor want from her?

I am always a sucker for a good ghost story, especially if you get to witness some sort of ghostly activity and in this horror short, you get to witness a ghost sleeping and snoring. You do however get a payoff in the end as the young woman in the house is not the only one woken up in the middle of the night. With a windy night, a snoring sound, an absentee father’s snoring, an unseen entity, and a sheet that falls upon a sleeping ghost, this is a good little movie to check out when you are having a hard time getting to sleep. I mean if sleeping were easy, everyone would be doing it and not looking around for the strange things that go bump in the night. Stay Scared.

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