The first segment of the shorts featured the sci-fi/horror film, CREEPERS, by Director Nick Thiel and his friend, CJ Johnson, who was an actor and producer on this film. The overall feeling in this movie generated tension and had the audience come to grips with our own prejudices and fears. Perhaps this film was using the political landscape of the historic presidential race as an underlying tone in assisting it in generating such an internet buzz. Nevertheless, Nick provides a film that harkens back slightly to a cross between JOHN CARPENTER'S THE THING and PHANTOMS.

As the film progresses at a quickened rate, because of the unknown terror chasing them, there is never a moment of hesitation from actors CJ and Sarah Ashley, as they are a mixture of hard razor edge and rollercoaster-like emotions, respectively. As they are at zero hour of infestation, similar to 28 DAYS LATER, from the unknown source and feeding frenzy of paranoia that swirls around like a tornado, while trapped in a tiny apartment. The film has no hurried pace, nor is the audience ignored or sacrifice for the betterment of the film. CREEPERS lets the creeping terror into the tiny room that the actors, and even the audience, are trapped in, with a raw energy power drain that is feeding on paranoia and secretly social views and that is in essence -- the realism in the film. The film treats the audience to a complete mystery storyline for these 17 minutes. This film actually prepared the crowd on hand for the feature film of the night. Moreover, they sat in anticipation and they waited, and amassed in great numbers for that film.

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