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Excellent Horror Short
Michael_Elliott25 September 2016
Selfie From Hell (2015)

**** (out of 4)

A woman (Meelah Adams) takes a selfie of herself and notices a man standing in the background. When she turns no one is there but with the next selfie he appears to be even closer.

I'm sure you can tell where SELFIE FROM HELL is going but it's certainly one of the best horror shorts from the recent era. I was late to the party on this film because it was apparently a huge hit on YouTube when it first aired and it's easy to see why. Director-writer Erdal Ceylan takes a very simple story and manages to milk the suspense out of it and so much so that I'm sure even Wes Craven would have been impressed. The set-up is simple but it shows what can happen when you're creative. At less than two-minutes this is certainly worth watching.
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4/10
Uses familiar features from the genre and elaborates on them disappointingly
Horst_In_Translation3 March 2018
Warning: Spoilers
"Selfie from Hell" is a German live action shot film from 2015 written and directed by Turkish filmmaker Erdal Ceylan and it says the language here is English, but actually there is no dialogue here at all basically, so you can watch it wherever you are from and whatever languages you speak. but do you really want to is the question. Should you? And I say no. We have a woman taking selfies showing her cleavage, but she discovers a strange creature in the background of these selfies. But yeah, no worries after she sees him the first time right? Embarassing how she shakes it off so easily so quickly. Very unrealistic. And maybe it's not the best idea to keep making selfies as he moves closer on these, but hey she really had it coming what happens eventually and with that I mean the jump scare of course. It is a very short movie at 90 seconds without credits that managed over 20 million views on Youtube in about 2.5 years, so that is pretty impressive for sure. But it's not a good or clever film i'd say. The fact that it became an online sensation resulted in Ceylan turning this into a full feature film with his lead actress Meelah Adams again, but it seems the reception for that one is way worse compared to this award-winning short film we have here. Still not even the latter is quality on a level where I would recommend checking it out. I give it a thumbs-down. Watch something else instead unless you really really love horror films. I personally am glad it was this short as it did almost nothing for me.
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8/10
Selfie from Hell: Horror short done right
Platypuschow27 January 2019
When creating a short film the "Short" aspect can often cause some real issues. How can you tell a story in such a short space of time? Especially one like this which is literally 90 seconds in length.

Selfie from Hell doesn't suffer this issue and instead embraces it. Telling a short but concise horror tale that manages to scare, intrigue and show lashings of originality in a genre that is overwhelmed by cliches and tropes.

Starring Meelah Adams this is horror done right and is exceptional considering how little they had to work with.

Meelah and the original creators would later go onto make a feature length movie based on the same concept and in my view it's seven shades of awful. This however is fantastic and a demonstration what can be done and that some concepts benefit from minimal time.

The Good:

Genuinely creepy

Very original

Makes great use of the limited time

The Bad:

Nothing
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selfie
Kirpianuscus20 November 2021
A woman, alone, in her appartment, taking selfie. The silhouette of intruder. Her try to discover him. And the last picture , with predictible but powerful effect. A very, intense, short horror, proposing all the ordinary ingredients of genre . But the thrill remains fresh, the tension grows up and the impact of the last scene is not symbolic. Short, just nice job.
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8/10
Know when to quit
targaid18 December 2022
As a short this is brilliant.

Tight, creepy, well performed and shot. Okay, it's a single jump-scare and you know what's coming from pretty early on but that's often what makes a jump-scare effective; the anticipation.

I've discovered that it has been expanded into a feature film. What a waste of time. I haven't seen it but the reviews are universally awful and I can see why. There really was nowhere to take this. The schtick isn't going to work more than once and it doesn't have an antagonist that can be expanded upon or made scarier. The premise seems to have become that taking too many selfies is evil and leads to your death but to set that number at 13? Come on! This would be the busiest supernatural revenge killer in cinematic history.

Just conclusive proof that you should know when to leave a good thing alone.
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