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Title: The Rake
Runtime: 4 min
Country: USA
Director: R.A. Barrett
Placement: Award of Merit
Competition: March, 2026
Synopsis: We have started filming horror shorts under the Name TERROR TALES. It’ll be a compilation of scary short films based on folklore, Mythology, and campfire stories. In this first installment, Jess Bennett is alone after her birthday party when her brother checks in on her. Not knowing the Native American superstition of Whistling at night can summon up evil spirits, she soon finds out for herself why they forbid it. Alone in the dark she hears it whistles back. She has called to the creature known as THE RAKE and it has accepted her invitation.