Scotty’s Horror Short Showcase: ‘Outer’

Written by Scott Edwards 

Sometimes there are stories told around towns that seem so outlandish that there is no way that they can be true. But while it may seem like there is no way that any of these things could have happened, there is always a little bit of truth that comes with Urban Legends that some people do not want to accept. It may be something as small as a crazy person being in the town, to a UFO that crashed that was actually a weather balloon. No matter the story, the truth is out there in some sense and it just leaves you to question what is false and what is fact when it comes to figuring out where the stories came from.
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Arriving at an old warehouse on the outskirts of town, Kyle, Rachel, Jade and Jack are looking to investigate the claims that have come from the old location. While Jack is filming on his cell phone, Kyle and Rachel head into the abandoned building without issue, but Jade is a little hesitant. Knowing the stories that surround the old building, Jade wonders if there is any truth to them, but her boyfriend Jack is not willing to let her imagination get the best of her. Chalking them up to old Urban Legends, Jack is able to convince Jade to head in, but that may have been the wrong plan altogether. 

After hearing screams from inside of the building, Jade and Jack run in to find that their friends Rachel and Kyle are missing. Finding their flashlight rolling on the ground, Jack picks it up only to illuminate a trail of blood on the floor. Turning to Jade, only to find that she has vanished into thin air, Jack tries to tell his story quickly to his camera, but before he is able to finish, he is taken by an unseen force. Waking up covered in muck, Jade finds herself alone in an empty room and thinks nothing of it. Picking up her flashlight and making her way into the warehouse, she is not able to find her friends anywhere, but spots movement out of the corner of her eye. Believing that her friends are trying to scare her, Jade finds an old doll hanging from a chain, but when she looks around a bit more, she spots the broken body of one of her friends in a trash can and starts to understand that this is not a prank, but an Urban Legend that is quickly coming to life before her very eyes.

Urban Legends really do make for some fun horror shorts as I have seen over the past couple years.  Without needing to go too far into a back story, they really get right to the point quickly and that makes for an entertaining viewing. I liked the creature lurking in the shadows, and even more so, the creepy warehouse set up with the doll hanging from the raptors, because it really was a haunted house set up with something more deadly hanging back in the shadows. With a group of friends, some flashlights, a cellphone, some creepy muck, a creepy doll and a thing of nightmares in the shadows, this short will make you think twice about proving or disproving that an Urban Legend is real or not. Stay Scared.

See ‘Outer’ on Amazon Prime Video.

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