【Balloon】Horror Short Film | Presented by ALTER

A girl is receiving a treatment to overcome her balloon-related fears after she was kidnapped by Poppy the Clown as a child but everything does not go as expected.

Penny didn’t grow up with a fear of the dark or the Boogyman in her closet. No, she grew up with the fear of the colourful and innocent balloon. Now in her late 20s, Penny and her therapist go back to the memory where she was kidnapped at her birthday by serial killer Poppy the Clown. It was the most haunting play date of her life. After her session she must stay indoors, for today is the anniversary of the killers death and people are running around dressed up as him. Penny slips into a deep sleep leading to a nightmare filled with a world of balloons and the ghost of Poppy. There, she learns what happened to him as a child and is pulled out of her nightmare by her therapist. However... Her therapist may end up being scarier than anything in her nightmares.

A trauma . A phobia. A painful event on the birthday. And the try to fix them. With terrible consequences. All is special in the case of this short film escaping from the rules of expected horror. Because not the thrill is the axis but the wise manner to explore the attitude and reactions of a young woman and her dark past, the steps to the reconciliation with herself and the obstacle. A film who could remind "It". But the basic difference has as source the impeccable performance of Angelique Wiesner. A film more about mind labyrinth than the facts.

“BALLOON” by Mitchell Slan