Short film

Paying Guest
2020 · 15 min
A tense, slow-burning horror short that uses a simple house tour to build creeping dread and supernatural unease.
- Directed by
- Awais Sulaman
- Genres
- Horror, Thriller
- Starring
- Muneeb Butt, Noreen Gulwani, Awais Sulaman
- Tagline
- It's often said that If you talk about someone, they tend to show up, sometimes uninvited.
- Overview
- A man turns up on the door to inspect the house he seeks to purchase, though the tenant's tour reveals more than what he expected.
- How it feels
- Eerie, tense and dark. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
- About
- Isolation, deception, fate, death
- Content
- Mild violence, gore and language. No sexual content.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Awais Sulaman
- Genres
- Horror, Thriller
- Starring
- Muneeb Butt, Noreen Gulwani, Awais Sulaman


