Will Barratt

Ever wonder what your dog would say to you if he/she could speak? When a broken hearted man's Halloween wish comes true he winds up paying a price he never saw coming.

A mean king is scared of Halloween in this old fashioned fairy tale. In compliance with the 2023 Writers Guild and Screen Actors Guild strikes, ArieScope enlisted some outside (and unusual) help to pull off its milestone 25th annual Halloween short film!

The full feature-length documentary about filmmaker Adam Green / ArieScope Pictures' (HATCHET, FROZEN, "Jack Chop") 20 year tradition of making Halloween short films just for fun in between the real feature films and television shows. In October of 1998 Adam Green and Will Barratt threw together a short film called "Columbus Day Weekend" to screen at a Halloween party. Little did they know that it would give birth to an annual tradition that would span two decades and spawn a feature film and television production studio that would become a leader of the indie horror scene. FOR THE LOVE OF HALLOWEEN is a walk down memory lane with all of your favorite key players from the ArieScope family as they share the candid stories behind 20 years of Halloween shorts.

All good things must come to an end. Or do they? Adam Green comes face to face(s) with one of his worst nightmares in the 20th annual ArieScope Halloween short film.

A coffin that was rented for a Halloween party winds up containing a terrifying/adorable secret.

A search and recovery team heads into Victor Crowley’s haunted swamp to pick up the pieces, and Marybeth learns the secret to ending the voodoo curse that has left Victor Crowley terrorizing Honey Island Swamp for decades.

Picking up right where the original ended, Marybeth escapes the clutches of the swamp-dwelling killer Victor Crowley. After learning the truth about her family’s connection to the hatchet-wielding madman, Marybeth returns to the Louisiana swamps along with an army of hunters to recover the bodies of her family and exact the bloodiest revenge against the bayou butcher.

When a group of tourists on a New Orleans haunted swamp tour find themselves stranded in the wilderness, their evening of fun and spooks turns into a horrific nightmare.

Making of documentary for the 2006 horror film 'Hatchet'.

Horror legend Tom Holland dares you to join him for nine nerve-shredding, totally Twisted Tales. Serving up a mind-bending assortment of the macabre, it’s an anthology fine-tuned to keep you on the edge of your seat. A new drug offers users a glimpse of the future… with beastly consequences. A murderous husband is stalked by his own cell phone. A jilted lover wreaks satanic vengeance. The nightmarish action then leads to worlds haunted by dark magic, demonic possession, vampires, witches and more in this seriously freaky festival of fear.

When a group of tourists on a New Orleans haunted swamp tour find themselves stranded in the wilderness, their evening of fun and spooks turns into a horrific nightmare.

When three skiers find themselves stranded on a chair lift at a New England ski resort that has closed for the next week, they are forced to make life or death choices that prove to be more perilous than staying put and freezing to death.

This ensemble comedy follows the Pullham University Bluecocks, a small liberal arts college with a Division III football program (the lowest division in the NCAA). When the head coach unexpectedly dies, the future of the flailing football program is in jeopardy, as they have not had a winning season in decades. In a desperate attempt to create some media attention for the athletic program and the university, President Georgia Anne Whistler hires known lunatic and felon, Coach Rick Vice, for what could be the football programs final season.

Two friends, Adam and Steve, struggle to get their morning radio program off of the small town air waves of Holliston and into the big time. Meanwhile, Adam struggles to get over a break up with his long-time girlfriend and back into the wonderful and horrifying world of dating.

Two friends, Adam and Steve, struggle to get their morning radio program off of the small town air waves of Holliston and into the big time. Meanwhile, Adam struggles to get over a break up with his long-time girlfriend and back into the wonderful and horrifying world of dating.

A reclusive telemarketer has only one semblance of a friend: His telecommuter boss. But the telemarketer's social circle seems to improve greatly when a whimsical co-worker enters his life. Only, as he begins to sketch his new friend's portrait, disturbing "voices" from the phone man's past threaten to lead him into a network of destruction.

After an ancient evil is awakened in the depths of an abandoned uranium mill, four old military veterans join forces with some internet kids to stop it before it slimes the population.

Second in the series, dysfunctional friends Adam and Quentin are on the road, taking care of business in their own inimitable fashion.

A mean king is scared of Halloween in this old fashioned fairy tale. In compliance with the 2023 Writers Guild and Screen Actors Guild strikes, ArieScope enlisted some outside (and unusual) help to pull off its milestone 25th annual Halloween short film!

A single mother from the suburbs searches for her kidnapped daughter before human traffickers sell her on the international market.

A documentary filmmaker turns his lens on an enigmatic conspiracy theorist who claims he's found the entrance to a vast underground city populated entirely by monsters.

A documentary filmmaker turns his lens on an enigmatic conspiracy theorist who claims he's found the entrance to a vast underground city populated entirely by monsters.

Andre, recovering from a recent accident, agrees to help his friend Robert by taking over a house sitting job at a creepy home nestled in the hills above Los Angeles. As night comes, the house reveals its insidious nature as Andre begins hearing ominous sounds and experiencing strange occurrences throughout the house that lead him to believe he is not alone, and that someone, or something is in the house with him.

Jenna is getting married, her mother is delighted until Jenna announces she wants to find her birth mother.

A public service announcement about a problem that far too many children face every Halloween. Won't you please help? Please share this video with your friends and spread the word about this important cause! This is the 24th annual Halloween short film from filmmaker Adam Green.

Ten influencers are lured into a sinister content house and forced to compete in lethal social media challenges — because in Skillhouse, clout isn’t just currency, it’s survival.

A lonely woman and a mysterious intruder get more than they bargained for when a quiet evening proves to be deadlier than either of them could have imagined.

Convicted murderer Clyde Thompson receives the death penalty for shooting two men in Texas in 1928. When the governor spares his life, Thompson gains a reputation as the meanest man in the state while working hard labor in prison.

Picking up right where the original ended, Marybeth escapes the clutches of the swamp-dwelling killer Victor Crowley. After learning the truth about her family’s connection to the hatchet-wielding madman, Marybeth returns to the Louisiana swamps along with an army of hunters to recover the bodies of her family and exact the bloodiest revenge against the bayou butcher.

A search and recovery team heads into Victor Crowley’s haunted swamp to pick up the pieces, and Marybeth learns the secret to ending the voodoo curse that has left Victor Crowley terrorizing Honey Island Swamp for decades.

It’s Halloween night, and two “bad apples” decide to play some wicked tricks on the one house in a suburban cul-de-sac that is not celebrating Halloween. They terrorize a young couple in their home and these tricks become increasingly more sinister as the night progresses, finally ending in a Halloween the entire neighborhood will never forget.

New recruit Justin Rosa must monitor arms-smuggling cartel member Eddie Flynn — and keep him alive at all costs. When a SWAT team descends on Flynn’s home, Rosa breaks protocol and contacts the gangster directly to save his life. As gunmen break into the Wire Room and chaos erupts, Mueller and Rosa make a final, desperate stand against the corrupt agents and officials who seek to destroy evidence and kill them both.

It's the closing night at the last drive-in theater in America and Cecil B. Kaufman has planned the ultimate marathon of lost film prints to unleash upon his faithful cinephile patrons. Four films so rare that they have never been exhibited publicly on American soil until this very night! With titles like Wadzilla, I Was a Teenage Werebear, The Diary of Anne Frankenstein, and Zom-B-Movie, Chillerama not only celebrates the golden age of drive-in B horror shlock but also spans over four decades of cinema with something for every bad taste.

Ten years ago, over forty people were brutally torn to pieces in Louisiana’s Honey Island Swamp. Over the past decade, lone survivor Andrew’s claims that local legend Victor Crowley was responsible for the horrific massacre have been met with great controversy. But when a twist of fate puts him back at the scene of the tragedy, Crowley is mistakenly resurrected and Andrew must face the bloodthirsty ghost from his past.

A woman stalked by depression makes some extreme decisions.

After a strange meteor destroys a communications satellite and crashes into Tampa Bay, a sickly looking fish finds itself the meal of a beautiful nightclub bartender named Val. Moments later, as the bar is closed and locked tight, the infected Val becomes ill and all Hell breaks loose. Hidden from the others, the parasite she has unknowingly eaten rapidly grows, bursting from her throat and becoming the puppet master for the chaos ahead. With no possible way to reach help or escape, the trapped club-goers must fight to survive and plan to destroy the creature before it is let loose into the world.

Stu Undercoffler is a corrupt CEO whose drive for power has led him to make some highly unethical choices. Once Stu's self-serving decisions have begun to spread darkness through the world, there's no stopping it. After losing his wife, Stu begins to have a crisis of conscience but starts to believe he is being stalked and has been hallucinating. Is he losing his mind or have his former victims come back to wreck havoc on him?

On a chilly Halloween night, CEO Jack and his wife Mrs. Box relax in their mansion as they gloat about Jack In the Box's victory over Burger King in the fast food franchise wars. But their celebration is short lived when none other than The King shows up at their door. With a maniacal grin and vengeance in his heart, his campaign of terror has just begun... No one is safe in this horror spoof, by the directors of ABOMINABLE and HATCHET.

30 year old Sam has his Trick or Treating plan's foiled when his wife stays home sick for the night.

A man is delighted by how his new Tivo has changed his life, until the machine becomes obsessed with him and begins killing people.

Adam Green's annual Halloween short film spoofs televisions infamous Slap Chop commercial with an accident prone Bostonian selling a jack-o-lantern carving kit.

A cautionary Halloween tale about the consequences of taking more than just ONE piece of candy from a trick-or-treating "Honor Bowl".

In John Carpenter's 1978 classic HALLOWEEN, Michael Myers was suddenly able to drive a car after having sat in a sanitarium staring at the wall since childhood. While the filmmakers addressed this slight plot hole briefly in the original movie with a throw away line by Donald Pleasance ("Maybe someone around here gave him lessons"), ArieScope Pictures was fortunate enough to track down a never-before-seen deleted scene that thoroughly explains what really happened.

A coffin that was rented for a Halloween party winds up containing a terrifying/adorable secret.

A Skype call between a husband and wife on Halloween night takes a disturbingly dark turn...

Three hungry monsters meet their match in a child's bedroom on Halloween night.

A man encounters a moral dilemma while carving a Jack-O-Lantern in Adam Green's 18th annual Halloween short film.

The cast of HOLLISTON finds themselves in a scary situation when a rehearsal goes horribly wrong.

All good things must come to an end. Or do they? Adam Green comes face to face(s) with one of his worst nightmares in the 20th annual ArieScope Halloween short film.

Three kids try and scare each other with a spooky game on Halloween night. The 2019 Airescope Halloween short film!

The coronavirus pandemic may have ruined trick or treating for most people this year, but Halloween can never be cancelled.

After a car accident leaves a young woman with amnesia, she is torn between the new man in her life that she can't remember and her ex who she can't forget.

A man faces a peculiar situation when he is asked to pet sit for a friend on Halloween night. Starring Jeff Lewis (THE GUILD), ArieScope's 26th annual Halloween short film explores the dark side of novelty pets.

Intimate portrait of rock icon Steven Tyler performing his first ever solo material as he searches for personal and creative fulfillment.

Wedding guests at a European resort face terror when their celebration turns into a life-or-death struggle high above dangerous waters teeming with sharks.

A woman arrives home from work to find her power out and her front door left unlocked. As she walks through the house with her boyfriend on the phone, he tells her she is safe. Is he right? Or is this a dangerous Gaslight.

In a 1940’s dark and eerie setting, the story delves into Guy's descent into madness mere hours after the burial of his loved one, as he is tormented by supernatural encounters and memories of his lost love.

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