Tunnel (Award-Winning Short Film)

Winner of the 2021 Roadsmary's Baby Horror Short Film Festival!

Synopsis: A nature photographer discovers an old railway tunnel that holds a strange mystery...

Directed by Sean Louis Kelly
Starring Spencer Fappiano and Sean Louis Kelly

Filmed at the Steep Rock Preserve in Washington, Connecticut.

[nickboyd]

The ending would have stood out as a great loop if the main character, after hearing the kazoo that final time, took out his kazoo and played it back meaning he was the one who played it for himself initially

[elonawilliams]

First extra echo coming from a cave is my clue to run 🏃

[alexanderholloway]

Addiction can be like this. Always circling back to the same dark threat, not wanting to enter in but it keeps calling to you no matter which direction you go.

[professord]

Ahhh. Stumbling upon a dark, mysterious tunnel in the woods, then walking-in to it after hearing inexplicably -delayed "echoes." What could POSSIBLY go wrong?

[bearbrown]

I'm sorry, but the ending totally lost it for me... when the guy was freaking out, constantly ending back up at the same place - that was scary AND to date, this had been one of the best fear inducing short horrors I have seen. I think a more ambiguous ending that leaves the fear of forever being lost would be better

[gregbuster]

Jump scares are unimaginative and uninspired. The end scene ruined what could have been a satisfying short film.

[mrman]

This took the prestigious “I’ve seen this somewhere before” award.

[taydeadwards]

I watched this twice to see if I missed anything and I think I chose to just enjoy it for what it is. I like to think that the guy that walked in the tunnel was his friend that called to check on him in the beginning. Seems like maybe the main character was going through some things and maybe this tunnel was like an existential crisis that he couldn’t get out of until someone else came along

[taracollins]

2:40 NO way am I going near that tunnel. At first spontaneous be running & saying The Lord's Prayer! :)

[hoshilily]

It was okay until the ending scene. It went downtunnel at there. 2/10.

[k.p.]

Damn, was about to think i finally found a short horror story that was really well done, uncanny and maybe actually unsettling, then theres that ending... why :(

[rgerber]

there was this short movie recently where some guy enters a modern concrete tunnel where he could never escape from. He can still see the exits on both sides but simply can't reach them and if someone else enters, he doesn't even exist....

[nonexistentfuture]

Very cool concept! Loved it. I agree with others on the ending. I would have also liked to see more of a panic while the main character is running through the woods. More disheveled and scared maybe shots of desperately screaming for help. Even though there isn’t any sound, the audience would be able to feel the nightmare the actor felt. This would have sold the fear more for me IMO. Really well done I enjoyed this a lot.

[Julia-lkjn]

I love how beautiful the scenery is, including the tunnel. It creates such a great contrast to how threatening this lovely place gets when there's no way out.

[JateCharaireFATE]

Guy: *goes in a tunnel after hearing a weird noise coming from it*
Me: natural selection!

[pattyoconnells]

I will avoid tunnels.
Really beautiful scenery and loved the piano 🎼 music 🎶

[kristymichaellusthaus]

Scared the crap out of me. It's left me with that creepy feeling.. to be honest I got so unnerved I closed my eyes when I saw the first guy standing facing the cave wall. Good job!

[pilgrim]

That’s 7 minutes and 53 seconds of my life that I can never get back.

[ArtiomNeganov]

It seems to me, this cave has become a superstar. It definitely deserves an Oscar.

[lauriejoneswilson]

Pretty good. Great scenery and tense, but you won’t catch me going into a cave that keeps playing a kazoo back at me 😂