​PRANO BAILEY-BOND
DIRECTOR
REVIEWS
"A special treat in every way"
"Raw emotion & authentic dread"
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"A stylish, gripping short"
"One of the most effective horror shorts I've seen"
Berlin Shorts Interview with Prano Bailey-Bond
"There appears to be something deeply metaphorical here surrounding the dissolution of a family unit"
"Pries your brain apart, and drags you through the luminous VHS gateway to revelation."
"It was as if these films held some kind of metaphysical power that could change someone’s personality"
"Every single frame is like a painting, beautifully composed, a sumptuous feast for the eyes"
"An aesthetically gore-geous throwback to the video nasties era and all that VHS quality goodness"
"An ultra-stylish and thoroughly entertaining work from a highly promising filmmaker"
"Perhaps I was driven by some demon?" Prano on NASTY
"An overall dread that infects all" Horror Happens' Jay Kay's Top 10 Horror Shorts of 2016
NASTY
Short film | 15 minutes
Shooting format 16mm & S8mm
Production company - Soul Rebel Films
It's 1982. Twelve-year old Doug is drawn into the lurid world of VHS horror as he explores the mysterious disappearance of his father.
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AWARDS
Best Music - Scottish Independent Film Festival 2018
Best Int'l Short - Women in Horror Film Festival 2017
Best Short Film - Stormy Weather Film Festival 2017
Best Scream Queen - Stormy Weather Film Festival 2017
Grand Prize - Int'l Competition Winner - Dijon Short Film Festival 2016
Excellence in Directing Short Form - Cinematic Arts Film Festival 2016
Best Sick Chick Flick - Sick Chick Flicks Film Festival 2016
Best Actress in a Short Film | Madeleine Hutchins - Fly Film Festival 2016
Best Sci-Fi / Horror - Sunderland Shorts Film Festival 2016
Bronze Skull - Morbido Film Festival 2016
Best International Short - Fantaspoa International Fantastic Film Festival 2016
Best Short Film - Stranger With My Face International Film Festival 2016
Best Director - North Wales International Film Festival 2016
Best Picture - Maverick Movie Awards 2015
Best Director - Maverick Movie Awards 2015
Honorary Mention - Nashville Film Festival 2016
Highly Commended - UnderWire Festival 2015
Award of Merit - IndieFest Awards 2016
FESTIVALS & SCREENINGS
BFI London Film Film Festival 2015
Lund Fantastic Film Festival 2015
Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2015
BogoShorts Film Festival 2015
UK Film Festival 2015
Slamdance Film Festival 2016
London Short Film Festival 2016
(nominated: Best Woman Director)
British Shorts Berlin Film Festival 2016
(Jury Award short list)
Landshuter Kurz Film Festival 2016
(nominated: Deadline Award)
Palm Springs International ShortsFest 2016
Seattle International Film Festival 2016
Melbourne International Film Festival 2016
Rhode Island International Film Festival 2016
Woodstock Film Festival 2016
Mecal Barcelona Short & Animation Film Festival 2016
Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival 2016
Cinedelphia Film Festival 2016
Motel X - Lisbon International Horror Film Festival 2016
Abertoir Horror Festival 2016
Mayhem Horror Film Festival 2016
Film Fear - Film4 at Home in Manchester 2016
Snake Valley Film Festival 2016
Dundead Horror Film Festival 2016
Film Leben Festival 2016
Cannes Short Film Corner 2016
London Independent Film Festival 2016
Etheria Film Festival 2016
No Gloss Film Festival 2016
STUFF Film Festival 2016
Scream Queen Tokyo Film Festival 2016
FLY Film Festival 2016
Dundead Horror Film Festival 2016
Night Visions Film Festival 2016
NanoCon Science Fiction Film Festival 2016
Krakow Film Market 2016
Fantosfreak Festival 2016
FMK International Short Film Festival 2016
Dragon Con Independent Film Festival 2016
L'Etrange Festival 2016
Women Texas Film Festival 2016
Kolkota Shorts International Film Festival 2016
Defy Film Festival 2016
Milwaukee Short Film Festival 2016
Fenetres Sur Courts 2016
Rome International Film Festival 2016
Fright Night Film Festival 2016
Les Femmes Underground Film Festival 2016
The Chiddingly Festival 2016
The Directors Chair Film Festival 2016
InShort Film Festival 2016
Wreak Havoc Film Festival 2016
Fright Night Theatre Film Festival 2016
Edinburgh Short Film Festival 2016
Sick Chick Flicks Film Festival 2016
(nominated: Best VFX)
TerrorThon Boston 2016
Razor Reel Flanders Film Festival 2016
Great Lakes International Film Festival 2016
Spooky Empires International Horror Film Festival 2016
Ax Wound Festival 2016
Slaughter in Syracuse 2016
Leeds International Film Festival 2016
Spooky Empire's International Horror Film Festival 2016
Atlanta Horror Film Festival 2016
South London Shorts 2016
St Louis International Film Festival 2016
Misty Moon International Film Festival 2016 (nominated: Best Film)
Boca de Inferno 2016
International Film Festival of the Cinematic Arts 2016
Unrestricted View Horror Film Festival 2016
The Shawna Shea Film Festival 2016
LED - Accademia del Cinema di Enziteto 2016
Directors Circle Festival of Shorts 2016
Screamathon - Short Sighted Cinema 2016
Shivers Film Festival 2016
PDXtreme - Portland Underground Film Festival 2016
Fright Meter Awards Top 25 Horror Shorts of 2016
Other Worlds Austin 2016
Kolkata Short Film Festival 2016
Sweet Art Film Night 2015
Cine Excess Cult Film Festival 2015
Scare-A-Con 2015
Buried Alive Film Festival 2015
I Filmmaker International Film Festival 2015
Fargo Fantastic Film Festival 2015
Lille European Film Festival 2017
Tampere Film Festival (WIFT screening) 2017
Stormy Weather Horror Festival 2017
Final Girls Film Festival 2017
Limelight Film Awards 2017
Twisted Dreams Film Festival 2017
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CAST
DOUG - Albie Marber
CAROL/MUM - Madeleine Hutchins
EVIL DAD - James Cutler
CHERYL - Joanne Gale
VALERIE - Kimberley Adams
POLICE WOMAN - Jo Dyson
CREW
WRITER - Anthony Fletcher
DIRECTOR - Prano Bailey-Bond
PRODUCERS - Meghna Gupta & Helen Mullane
CASTING DIRECTOR - Katy Covell
DOP - Annika Summerson
PRODUCTION DESIGNER - Damien Creagh
COSTUME - Saffron Cullane
HAIR & MAKE UP - Ruth Pease
SPECIAL EFFECTS - Dan Martin
EDITOR - Flaura Atkinson
COLORIST - Edwin Metternich
POST VISUAL EFFECTS - Tri Do
SOUND DESIGNER - Tim Harrison
COMPOSERS - Seven Locks Studio