Above: Game Night: Survive the Slasher's Aubrey Nicole Plummer, writer-director Trent Duncan, Connor Sherman, and Erin Taylor with the game pieces. 📷 Screamify® Images / Jeremy Harris
THE NUMBERS: 80 guests · 3 launch titles · 1–3 minutes per episode · 2 hours of open hospitality · 1 red carpet.
Screamify launched MICRO HORRORS™ — its all-vertical, episodic horror slate — Saturday night at Sidecar Bar in Nashville, and the premiere earned its score. Red carpet and step-and-repeat at the door: efficient, photogenic. Venue screens looping the slate: on-brand. A themed shot board and the GAME NIGHT one-sheet on an easel: the details were doing work. The crowd: cast, crew, and a who's-who of Nashville horror.
THE SLATE: AUTONOMOUS (driverless-car nightmare — early standout; Kyle Valle directs Erin Áine and Domenic Jungling), GAME NIGHT: SURVIVE THE SLASHER (Trent Duncan's party-games-turn-lethal series with Connor Sherman, Erin Taylor, Aubrey Nicole Plummer, Morgan Flanagan, Cheyenne Autumn Hess), SCARY MARY (mirror legend, modern rules). New episodes weekly.
VERDICT: 9.1/10. Points off only because two hours wasn't enough. Micro Horrors streams now on the Screamify app and screamify.com — episodes are shorter than this review. Premiere photos are downloadable (credit required) via the press kit.
Pictured: Aubrey Nicole Plummer, writer-director Trent Duncan, Connor Sherman, and Erin Taylor of Game Night: Survive the Slasher with the game pieces; Erin Áine and Domenic Jungling of Autonomous. Photos: Screamify® Images / Jeremy Harris.
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