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here are some seriously good lockdown horror shorts out there. For starters, check out () by Brit filmmaker Jamie Hooper, whose feature debut is currently in post. Massively tense, it has a very similar vibe to David F Sandberg’s , which went on to spawn a feature version. Conveniently enough, Sandberg has also released a new (), starring Lotta Losten as a woman home alone who has the strong sense there’s someone or something in the house – people being at home with an entity is unsurprisingly the theme of many lockdown films. You can also watch a very good Making Of () which might inspire you to make your own.

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