{"id":2178,"date":"2017-10-20T11:08:51","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T15:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/?p=2178"},"modified":"2017-10-20T11:08:51","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T15:08:51","slug":"daily-horror-film-fest-leave-us-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/2017\/10\/20\/daily-horror-film-fest-leave-us-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Horror Film Fest: Leave Us Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every day in October, the Department of Tangents Blog &#038; Podcast is featuring a different short horror film as part of the Daily Horror Film Fest. Today\u2019s entry, <em>Leave Us Alone<\/em>, written and directed by Nicholas Treeshin, is another one I found through <a href=\"https:\/\/screamfestla.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Screamfest<\/a>, and another with a sci-fi bent. <\/p>\n<p>When a single mother moves back to the family farm, she inherits a terrifying tradition she can\u2019t escape. Her kid is acting strange. Police are investigating an incident on her property. And the world may also hang in the balance. Hard to say much more without spoilers. The film sets up a larger world we never get to see, which makes me wonder if <em>Leave Us Alone<\/em> might be a test run for a feature film, the same way <a href=\"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/2016\/10\/25\/daily-horror-film-fest-lights-out\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Lights Out<\/em><\/a> was. <\/p>\n<p>You may also recognize Leah Gibson from supporting roles on Hulu\u2019s <em>Shut Eye<\/em>, <em>The Returned<\/em>, and <em>Rogue,<\/em> and Philip Granger, who plays the sheriff, from SyFy&#8217;s <em>Ghost Wars<\/em>, <em>The Killing<\/em>, and <em>Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H9KnFSbw1Bo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every day in October, the Department of Tangents Blog &#038; Podcast is featuring a different short horror film as part of the Daily&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1422,5],"tags":[641,1506,1508,1509,1507,1503,1485,1501,1504,1502,1505],"class_list":["post-2178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-horror-film-fest","category-horror","tag-daily-horror-film-fest","tag-ghost-wars","tag-leah-gibson","tag-nicholas-treeshin","tag-philip-granger","tag-rogue","tag-screamfest","tag-shut-eye","tag-the-killing","tag-the-returned","tag-tucker-and-dale-vs-evil"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/DHFF-Leave-Us-Alone-BANNER.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7lGwW-z8","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2178"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2182,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178\/revisions\/2182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}