‘False Start’: The Nastiest Film I Saw at Atlanta Film Festival Also Turned Me On

‘False Start’: The Nastiest Film I Saw at Atlanta Film Festival Also Turned Me On

May 22, 2026 Dread Central

I watched a lot of fun horror films at the Atlanta Film Festival, from tongue-in-cheek creature feature Fishy to Weapons, with a Josh Brolin Q&A. But a horror movie that truly terrified and disturbed me was Ella Price’s short film False Start. The premise of this modern-day video nasty is simple enough: Viewers watch as Shelley (Julia Daigh), a disaffected,...