Every day in October, the Department of Tangents Blog & Podcast is presenting a different horror short film as part of the Daily Horror Film Fest. Today’s entry is Hell No – The Sensible Horror Film, directed by Joe Nicolosi and written by Nicolosi and John Freiler.

So you’ve been watching horror movies for the past two weeks to get into the holiday spirit, and you’ve seen every dumb thing a character can do to promulgate their own extinction. They’ve gone into places they shouldn’t, trusted way too much, and generally done anything they could to deserve a ghastly fate. This film asks, what if they didn’t? The answer is that horror movies would be much shorter.

HELL NO – The Sensible Horror Film from Joe Nicolosi on Vimeo.