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A transfer student is placed in a haunted dorm room.

A micro-budget short.

  • Greer Jansen
    Key Cast
  • Jackie Pitts
    Key Cast
  • Lily Pratt
    Key Cast
  • Francesca Shipsey
    Key Cast
  • Hannah Scharlin-Pettee
    Director
  • Hannah Scharlin-Pettee
    Producer
  • Bradley Korman
    Director of Photography
  • Hannah Scharlin-Pettee
    Writer
  • Meriel Stein
    Writer
  • Abigail Singer
    Assistant Director
  • Kaeli Mogg
    Makeup FX
  • Hannah Scharlin Pettee
    Makeup FX
  • Velvin Nipson
    Color and VFX
  • Peter Aguilar
    Sound Designers and Re-Recording Mixers
  • Illona Brand
    Sound Designers and Re-Recording Mixers
  • Patrick Gilfether
    Sound Designers and Re-Recording Mixers
  • Evan Zierk
    Sound Designers and Re-Recording Mixers
  • Isaach Chabon
    Production Assistants
  • Bill Derrah
    Production Assistants
  • Mary Fischer
    Production Assistants
  • Marquis Junior
    Production Assistants
  • Reed McCoy
    Boom Operator
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    12 minutes 8 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    May 10, 2015
  • Production Budget:
    500 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Apollo Showcase
    Oberlin, Ohio
    May 14, 2015
  • Zed Fest Film Festival
    Burbank, California
    November 7, 2015
    West Coast Premiere
    Outstanding Acting (Greer Jansen), Outstanding Producing, Outstanding Screen Story, Mary Pickford Award for Excellence in Film
  • Independent Horror Movie Awards
    Online
    February 1, 2016
    Best Special Effects, Best Scare
  • Sick Chick Flicks Film Fest
    Chapel Hill, North Carolina
    September 15, 2016
    Best Director
  • Albany FilmFest Presents: 2 Scary Shorts + Filmmaker Q&A
    Albany, California
    October 24, 2017
Director Biography - Hannah Scharlin-Pettee

Scharlin-Pettee graduated from Oberlin College in 2013 with degrees in Cinema Studies and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies. She received the Cinema Studies Award for Achievement in Critical Writing for her thesis, "The Abyssal Womb: Queer Spectatorship and Abjection in Horror Cinema." As a Centennial Undergraduate Intern with the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, Scharlin-Pettee assisted the National Center for Jewish Film with outreach, publicity, and archival work.

Scharlin-Pettee has since written on the topics of hobby games and monstrosity for Vice and In Res Media, and produced an award-winning short at Reel Stories, a filmmaking program for girls and non-binary youth aged 12–19 years old.

She is now an elementary school teacher.

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Director Statement

I am eternally grateful for all of the students, faculty, staff and alumni at Oberlin College that supported this project. I couldn't have done this without you. Thanks for believing in my horrific little vision!