Sci-Fi Horror has led us into the depths of fear and back again, from the mundane to the fantastical. It's the fear of the unknown, the fear of the depths of space, and the fear of where our technology will lead. Here, the winners of Nyx Horror Collective's 13 Minutes of Horror 2022 60-Second Film Challenge lead you through the wicked, the weird and the worrisome all within one terrifying minute. =

A young woman returns home on the eve of the apocalypse to reunite with her estranged family and to finally tell her childhood crush that she was the love of her life.

"Holy homophobia Batwoman, we better use the scissor symbol to assemble the team!" A queer woman's mind is blown by her new coworker's bold question in this experimental short film.

After two femme presenting queer women get married on the beach, a group of three cishet men tell them “congratulations.” As the couple thanks the group, the men propose that they have a drink together and that the couple should “go grab their husbands.” Via this stereotypical heteronormative assumption, the wives are transported to a hyper queer affirming world containing queer couples dressed in their wedding best, but before they can join these empowering beautiful humans the wives must defeat their own inner colonial heteronormative insecurities.

When two cat owners decide to put up pet cameras in their new home while they’re away on a trip, they soon make a terrifying discovery as to why their cat has been acting so strange.