Seance - dir. by Robin Kasparik (2009)

Here's a nineteen-minute Czech horror film that truly is deserving of your time. Seance, by newcomer Robin Kasparik, takes a simple premise and wrings it for some effective scares and suspense.

A psychic is called upon to perform a seance in the castle dwelling of a very recently deceased woman. The two men who've requested her are after an answer from the deceased, and hope to speak with her spirit.

The seance takes a turn for the worse, of course (if it didn't, there wouldn't be a movie, right?), and, through some solid acting and atmospheric cinematography, Kasparik gets a few good jumps in, along with a number of genuinely creepy moments. There are more scary images in this short film than in the entirety of some recent feature Hollywood movies.

Seance has played at a number of international film festivals, and has won some awards, and been spoken highly of by folks like Jack Ketchum and Tony Randel. The filmmakers have made the film available, for free viewing, at: http://vimeo.com/11784656

Check it out if you've got nineteen minutes.

Shit, check it out even if you don't.