The Rapping

The Rapping is a short experimental noir horror film inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven.

A man reading alone begins to hear a faint, rhythmic sound. What starts as an almost imperceptible disturbance grows increasingly insistent, echoing from nowhere and everywhere at once. Whether something has entered his home or his mind becomes impossible to determine.

Shot in stark black and white, the film relies on minimalism, silence, and disorienting sound design to build a slow, psychological dread. Its audio landscape incorporates real recordings from NASA’s InSight Mars lander, lending an otherworldly texture to the experience.

Originally conceived as a standalone work, elements of The Rapping were later incorporated into the horror short Gumdrop, expanding a shared psychological universe between the two films.