Horror Short Review: Toast (2021)

One of the reasons we love watching horror shorts is that you often find unique ideas from talented creators. Ideas that are eccentric and impossible to replicate in anything but a short. Ideas that are given the same attention as a feature film but in super-short format.

There are many great examples, a never-ending supply of quality content, but every so often one comes along that stands head and shoulders above the rest. This is Toast. A horror short that is gleefully horrific, amusingly disturbing and thoroughly enjoyable.

From Deformed Lunchbox/ShortFlix and starring Jared Mitchell, this short is about one man’s obsession with toast. An obsession that takes a dark turn when he goes to make some and finds he is all out of bread.

Panic turns to despair until the man realises that the bread is not important… it’s the ‘toast’ part that really matters.

Jared Mitchell is a revelation in this short. His facial expressions, his mannerisms, he doesn’t say a single word but portrays a dishevelled mind brilliantly. All with a comedic edge that makes the darker ending all the more impactful. The camera work is immense, the shots where he is scrambling for something to toast, effective. All leading to a payoff that just needs to be seen.

It’s one of the best horror shorts we’ve seen. Check it out below.