THE SKY - AWARD WINNING COSMIC HORROR

Never have I ever watched a horror movie, or short, and had intense goosebumps the entire time. I was terrified the whole time. Amazing. This was truly incredible honestly. Absolutely incredible work on everyone’s part. This may very well be one of my absolutely most favourite shorts I’ve ever seen. And I’m pretty hard to please for horror! :) <3

You couldn't pick a worse time to take shrooms.

“These edibles ain’t shi-“ gets obliterated

I love cosmic horror. Weirdly it doesn't scare me (which I do love about traditional horror), but rather because it fills me with a sense of sublime awe and intrigue with its obscurity. Well done

Okay, so the world is ending and they’ve decided to spend it together. Her estranged mom realizes she wants to spend the last day together and invites her to the Pier, the friend over hears this conversation. When Ellie decides not to go her friend says “the piers too far anyways” and Ellie wigs out because she didn’t know her friend was eavesdropping and instead assumes something more sinister. So, Ellie doesn’t let her friend explain, her friend doesn’t really try to explain, and Ellie runs off to meet her mom before they’re all destroyed

If cosmic horror is characterized as "the fear and awe we feel when confronted by phenomena beyond our comprehension" then this thing is straight on, cause I have absolutely no clue what the fuck just happened

HOW IT FEELS TO CHEW 5 GUM

No cap that choker is CHOKING ...

Before it became apparent, at the right side you could clearly see debris was being lifted, had a feeling it would be a part of the story, its a good bit of fine detail there.

Eating Mushrooms and watching the world end seems like more fun than when I ate mushrooms at a Kanye West concert.

As someone who's taken shrooms and gone for a walk in the woods I can say it's really unsettling when you feel like the trees are trying to lull you to sleep so they can eat you and make you one of them

A detail I really like is that the sky doesn't start looking weird until after they take the shrooms. So from then on it could all just be a really bad trip or actually happening. Nicely done.

Still can’t decide if it was just an incredibly bad shroom trip or just the apocalypse lol

I really love how this plays on the realistic fear of are we spending our last moments who we should be spending them with? Or did we make the wrong choice

Though I can totally see why some people would call this horror, I personally find it to be far more of an abstract drama than anything directly frightening. It is oppressively sad and hearkens back to emotions that nearly everyone has experienced. The fear of losing a loved one, the fear of betrayal, and the fear that tomorrow many never come are all expressed here tastefully, and it all comes together beautifully.

I see the slowly approaching doom as a metaphor for death. None of us can escape it and our older, loved ones are taken before us. I also see advice to repair a once-important relationship before it's too late.

I have a cousin who I learned only as an adult is actually a second cousin. Her parents, avid and expert mushroom foragers, made one tiny mistake...but it only takes one. Once they realized they'd picked the wrong mushrooms, though, there was no power on Earth that could save them. All they could do was kiss their daughter goodbye and lie down together to die in agony. Only as an adult did I learn why my parents were so disdainful of mushroom foraging. I mention all of this to explain why I was expecting for most of this film that it would end with the two young women lying dead in the meadow, eyes staring, froth on their lips.

"The sky is raising! The sky is raising!" ~ Licken Chittle

I know they're just actresses...but I feel bad for the girl left behind. Her performance was really convincing.

I can easily declare that I don't recall in years of recent memory, being creeped out like this and for the entire film. The acting was top notch, the cinematography was elite, and the storyline captured, for me at least, memories of being on LSD at that age and literally feeling that the world was ending yet I had to deal with my interactions with friends and family. This one hit home. Bravo