Horror Short Film "And Away" | ALTER
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A young mother must protect her child as she finds the world around her is vanishing.
"And Away" by Noah Campagna
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"And Away" Credits:
Directed By: Noah Campagna
Based on: “It All Started with a Hot Air Balloon” by: Manen Lyset
Starring:
Veanna Black - Sarah
George Napoleon Thomas Martin Jr. - Henry
John Edwards - Spencer
Casting By: Emily Soppee
First Assistant Director: Evan Conaway
Production Designer: Hadley Rollins
Director of Photography: Justin H. Reich
Camera Operator: Tony M. Collins
First AC: Clint Owens
Second AC: Amber Atkins
Camera PA: Duncan Sligh
Key Grip: Zachary Echols
Sound Mixer: Joey Spinelli
Location Provided by: Carl Riden
Hot Air Balloon Provided by: Magic Carpet Ride Balloon Adventures
Additional Vehicles by: Doug Ruark
Original Score by: Antoni M. March
Edited by: Noah Campagna
Colorist: Justin H. Reich
Sound Design by: Reed Lovell
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Hey All. Director here. Thanks for watching our film! I'll be back later today to answer some questions, so please feel free to pick my brain. I hope you enjoy!
I've no clue what's going on here...
Masterpiece!
How on earth did you find actors so well matched and who had the ability to perform so well?
This was so well made, so full of tension and perfect timing.
Bravo to all!!!
The acting was incredible! Wow.
@@CaptRich-bi3gp use your imagination 😉
She made me cry too when she was explaining how adults don't always know what's going on. And, when he told her he loved her... my heart...
😢😢😢😢
It made me imagine if that would happen to me and my daughter 😢
Is it raining blood at the end??, i guess the world is over then .
The little boy did really well. Normally child actors annoy the hell out of me but he did so well!
Agreed. I was rooting for Jack Nicholson in The Shining the whole way.
Yes did he did well! I can't stand horror movies with a child!
You actually think he wasn't annoying?!! 🤔 Jeeeez!!!
He did so well though - at being so annoying!!! 😂
@@mazwide9400 you could try Mom and Dad, a lot of kids died in that one.
@@spongebobsexypants come on🤭🤭
This really invoked a feeling of dread, some unknown and unseen force encroaching down on you. It gave me really cosmic horror vibes and I love it. The actors all did really well, too!!
It's raining blood, so the apocalypse I would assume. "Birds will fall from the sky" doesn't have to be taken literally, could just mean they disappear.
For everyone who wondering what is happening in this short film, every living things are disappearing started from the sky, the people who were in hot air ballon, and get more low to the birds, and then more low to Spencer who his room is on the second floor, and then more low to the fly, and then more low to the crickets that are in the ground. and while both mother and son is below the ground, they are safe. the blood rain? could be all of living things who are disappeared taken by alien to the sky and they were killed, and those are their blood. easier to talking about alien than science lol. any other idea?
Thank you for the explanation.
i think that they scape from the rapture, now the apocalypsis kicks in
Spoilers?
@@evergrxn and??
@@79Bobolanow it’s less enjoyable
"Like a fart?" What an adorable actor! Just loved this one and hope to see more from the director and the actors. The mom's facial expressions were on another level. I want to see more of this story...full length movie now please!
That idyllic happy farm life, the sudden silence, the adult being the scared one - wow, everything felt so sinister and in broad daylight too!
She was right there was something in the air. And I think her odd relief of an expression in the end with the red rain is her knowing they survived whatever it was. This is so interesting and scary too! There seemed to be some unseen forces of a sort.
have they survived ???. why is it raining blood?!!. i got the impression something more serious was about to happen. But i guess things have stopped vanishing now.
But its not over...how would red rain cause you relief lol i would just get increasingly pissed/scared that i wasnt understanding &able to forsee whats next
@IdislikeTechnology I didn't say the red rain gave her relief lol but thanks for your response. Yeah I had so many questions after watching this. That was 9 mo ago tho
Its soooo good once u rewatch it after getting an idea of what happened. And the only explanation I have for the blood rain is that everything that "vanished" was actually evaporated like water and then rained back down . Which makes sense because only organic things vanished- because only organic matter can be evaporated. Now WHY did Earth randomly choose to evaporate all organic matter one day and rain it back down is beyond me. I guess it was like a cleansing
Oh my gosh, thank you so much, I literally was so confused
I thought the same thing, reminded me of war of the worlds in a way
It reminds me of the UFO from "Nope". How it sucked up people. ate them and then drained the blood and other stuff it couldn't digest.
That was amazing! The chemistry between the mother and child was so natural too! The story was so unique and anxiety ridden! I would love to know what was behind the strange events!
This gave me "Nope" vibes at first... then again when the rains started 😨
That was fantastic! Great script, great cinematography, great acting. The lead nailed it. She basically told her story with physical acting and showed off some amazing chops.
Unlike her, I would never have been be able to figure out what to do.
*I lived out in the country and we had a large field beside my house. We had ballooners land 2 times. Glad to report that both landings were safe. Great memories from my childhood.*
I lived on a farm as a kid and one emergency landed in our field one time It was really cool.
@@nrgbunni. One did that on the neighbor's farm once. Thankfully they managed to chance upon a field with a path into it AND without cattle in it. They let us touch the balloon. They were quite lost but managed to get the people with their truck cued in as to where they were and they got home safe
In the scene where she's looking for Spence I can totally smell the barn at my grandparents house, haven't been there for years ... great video with my coffee!
ABSOLUTELY AMAZING! The lead actress was absolutely breathtaking in this. I could feel her sadness and stress, not knowing what to tell her son. I tried to imagine if this really happened, how would I react? I absolutely do not know. Bravo Alter! Another masterpiece.
When she was tossing things at the ceiling to get that bug ... all I could think of was "We are obviously related."
She was so good in this, especially when she's near tears as she tries to tell her son that she doesn't know what's happening.
I liked this one a lot.
Reminds me of Nope, with the balloon monster and blood rain. The vanishing part just added a whole 'nother level of terrifying 😨
Reminds me of Nope also!!
Just the understanding of the person who feels something isn't quite right and then follows their instincts for the safety of herself
& child / Spencer
wherever he might be?
The rain at the end is comforting.
Changing the feel of the scene itself
My anxiety when the fly disappeared 😮
I loved mothers parenting skills! So natural and peer. Overall great short! Keep it coming!!!
Fear of the unknown is only as strong as the company we keep. This little family is all they need. Beautiful... 😳♥️
OK Alter.... Help me out here. Cuz I did not GET this one. What was the significance of the Mason jars, or the gravity, or staying low, &Not to mention the blood-red rain that they both just STOOD IN at the end??! I'd really like to understand, so please.....🤔🥴😬
The Mason Jars were to see when the invisible force was getting close, the mason jars had organic material in them and the material was disappearing layer by layer. It started in the atmosphere hence the air balloon being empty, then the birds disappeared, then the farmhand that was working up the stairs, then the fly that was on the ceiling, anything organic was disappearing by the invisible force working its way down, that’s why the fly swatter fell back down but not the egg when she threw it up into the air in the kitchen. The red rain could be the blood from all the living that were absorbed by the invisible force.
@Helen ofTroy nailed it! If you look at the 5:25 mark you can see that it has happened over the whole country.
@@helenoftroy6265 "anything organic was disappearing" but the plant life outside was intact
@@ISafrin good point. Maybe they didn’t have the budget to erase the plant matter or it’s a plot hole, or it only affected non plant organic matter. The mason jars could have had some kind of meat/blood as they were reddish in color, I assumed they were beet juice but the boy also ate beef jerky out of one so maybe they also stored meat in them. Im not too familiar with pickling and what gets pickled on farms but I’ve seen weird things like pickled eggs in a reddish/purplish liquid before and pig feet. The theory that it’s only non plant organic matter that is affected may be plausible, I don’t know.
@@helenoftroy6265 My goodness! How can a common person understand this story without all the explanation you gave? The producers have to take this into account.
Fun fact: my town is so in love with hot air balloon’s that there’s a hotline to call if one crashes so you don’t waste the fire departments time. It’s like a whole seperate division of the fire department
The original fictional story is from Reddit. “It all starts with the hot air balloon”.
In the original story, mother and the boy survived by hiding at the lowest ground and came out to check the whole town. They found out all living things were gone.
They had no choice but to hide again in the basement waiting for their fate.
Brilliant thanks! Will check that out
the person that wrote it is a horror writer
I am an avid listener of the NoSleep Podcast and this is one of my favourite stories from that podcast i remember hearing a couple years ago. Very well done!
wow this was beautifully done. Also what a good mama. Her instincts were spot on.
"like a fart!?" 😂😅😊 Kids innocence is the only thing not terrifying, but it reminds me of the film 📽️ "Don't blink." Pretty good.
That was such a good movie imo! The idea is so creepy and scary, everyone just disappearing at a moments notice the moment you do something so natural and instinctual.. ugh
Also the act from all three was amazing...I know the guy was in it briefly but he made that brief time count. Mama and son had me thinking they were actually mama and son. I got shivers at the end of this. I was trying to understand the egg part and then when she threw the second egg I was like okay. As stated in my previous comment, her instincts were spot on. The visuals in this were stunning. That first aerial shot really just pulled me into the atmosphere of the whole film and the atmosphere, tone and set were also fantastic. Well done!
I don’t get it.
@@rileygibson242 I just took it that there was aliens or sky people around or something just wasn't right and mom knew and so she threw first egg to see if it would disappear and it cracked but second egg she threw up and it never came down due to anti gravity effect.
@@moniquevandeplas5210 I think there was something can’t even think how to explain it but like a line of death slowly coming down from the sky and that’s why it started with the balloon falling because the person in it was evaporated by this “line” or whatever is it and it was slowly falling that is why when she barely threw the egg it didn’t “evaporate” or whatever is happening to these things and when she threw it high enough it did. That is why she didn’t want son to go up stairs and why they ended up going to the basement and lying down to get as far away from the “line of DEATH!” As they could get. That is my thoughts after thinking about it for a bit.
She had me feeling it when she said adults don't always know everything. We get scared too. The relationship between the mom and son felt real. I really enjoyed this one.
A very enjoyable movie. Nice slow reveal of the phenomena.
It reminded me of the opening scenes of the Japanese movie Tag (Riaru Onigokko) where an invisible force (wind) slices off every thing (and body part) above a certain height on a school bus.
Probably mostly a limitation of what you can reasonably produce but what would be the selection factor. Not just organic matter as the trees aren't sheared off, not living matter as the eggs were affected, not animal matter as the contents of the jars were affected.
Little boy; "Mom, whats going on?"
Me; "Hell yeah me too"
😂😂
There is a barrier coming down from the sky that appears to eat anything organic. First the guy who was in the hot air balloon disappeared, hence why it crashed. The scarecrow comment by the kid shows that the scarecrow, whihc doesn’t normally work, somehow works now; in reality all the birds have been absorbed. Then the farmer “spence” who lives upstairs doesn’t respond, then the fly stops buzzing on the ceiling. It implies the barrier is coming down. Then she throws an egg, which is organic material, on the ceiling and it disappears too, so her suspicions about a barrier coming down are confirmed. The jars she keeps pointing a light at are filled with what seem like blood? Or meat, or some kind of organic juice so she can have a visual estimate of where the barrier currently is. She tells him to lay down in an effort to delay the barrier their lives for as long as possible. The air whooshing noise u hear is the barrier.
This was really well done, the actress was great!
I honestly didn't pay enough attention to what was going on I think but the acting was fantastic. I'll watch it again later probably.
This was damn good . I watched this twice . I would love to see more work from the minds of this creation
can you explain what you understand .
@@dhachubts499 can you ?
I had to rewatch!!! This was amazing more like these please😭
"Mom, it's raining blood!"
"Oh thank goodness."
Great movie, I love it when it's never fully explained as to what is happening
CERN
I hate it, feels lazy. Weird stuff happens. I don’t know why but it does… you scared?
@@beccabarker3974 LOL- there is weird stuff that happens, and then there are people literally disappearing. Yes, I would be a little scared.
Beautifully shot and great acting- very atmospheric
can you explain what you understand
I started to think it was going to be " The Leftovers" theme aka Rapture, but at the end when it rains red [like blood] I start to question that theory leaving me wonder??
The Bible has a few times when blood rains down, so I think when she saw that, she's like, "OK Now I get what's going on"
But I could be wrong.
@@joeyj6808 got that there was a worm hole or something and that got the.
balloon person-(s) and the ex.. but the blood rain I didn't get .. someone will have to dumb it down for me 😂
Omg I remember reading this one as a creepy pasta and it really stuck with me. So awesome that it was made into a film! Well done!
This was a creepypasta on reddit a few years ago I think🤔. It's also read by different RUclipsrs as well. It's a pretty good simple creepy story/mystery.
Oooh thank you. Just looked it up; good little read 👍👍
What's the name of the story?
@@jessicagomez8775 Wondering the same :B
@@jessicagomez8775 it all started with a hot air balloon
@@Nekrocow it all started with a hot air balloon. It mentioned it in the credits; I checked back after I saw this comment 😊
Barrier based anomaly that’s not visible to the naked eye and only affects living beings or matter derived from organisms once organic matter or a life form has passed through the threshold it is unknown where they go or what happens to them
There are many places in which one can go. That is why ancient humans provided guidance.
Haha, that kid was great. "Is it ours, can we keep it?" Great performances. And good time to be living on a farm. Who would live through it? People in submarines and basement apartments?
"Five and a half!!" Got me laughing ❤😂
The eggs and jars were lowing and gave a alien vibe
It would have been epic if SLAYER started playing in the background when it started raining blood...lol
😂Right 🎸☠🎸🎸☠🎸☠🎸☠
I liked this! I thought it was different and well played out. No natural disaster reports because it was so quick and discreet. Luckily she saw it and was wise enough to go to the basement and keep track of it. Perhaps its just one way of many the world has ended. It would be crazy knowing you survived something like that not knowing what to expect next.
I would go to the theater for a full length of this movie, great short
I don’t like wearing shoes either, buddy.
In a way, this film reminds me of War of the Worlds-how the humans were captured and their blood sprayed around to fertilize. But this film leaves us wondering what the source of the issue is. It almost seems like a renewal/rejuvenation of the earth or something. Extreme population thinning, with the survivors being those who were smart enough to realize what was happening and seek safety.
Excellent concept!! Simply terrifying! And I really enjoyed the characters, no one got hysterical or stupid.
Thanks!!
I don’t get it.
This is too good to be a short film. I can't wait to see this concept on big screen ❤️
Hi
can you explain what you understand
@@dhachubts499 right like I was confused the entire time they never showed wtf she was so scared of or anything I didn’t even flinch at anything just watching her be scared
@@moodyfrmeastyt5321she was scared that she and her son would disappear like the hot air balloon people and Spencer and the fly and the egg and the insects. Something was in the air on that particular day taking things away, disappearing things animate and inanimate. If u recall at the beginning, Spencer and she remarked on how it was unusually quiet, and her son said the scarecrow was doing its job -- meaning no birds.
We don’t need this bullshit
Omg, this was TERRIFYING. Veanna, George, and John all did such a fantastic job…but Veanna made me feel every single thing. I felt her creeping terror, and her dawning realization, I cried when she cried. I haven’t had a 5 1/2 year old in almost 30 years, but a mother is always a mother. The instinct to protect, when there is no information on what, or from whom, protection needs to be given. That in itself is terrifying 😳.
I just began following Ms. Veanna Black on IMDB btw, and she’s been in so many projects that I’m now going to have to seek out just to see more of her work ☺️ (we’re also both Georgians).
The child actor who played her son Henry is named George, and he was just brilliant. No break in character, spunky, and absolutely precious.
The cinematography omg, I have to remember to mention…the very first scene, WHOA. Reminded me for just a second of some of the shots in ‘Midsommar’. This one is going in my top 5 of Alter shorts.
I appreciate in this type of story that we really get no answers so we are left to speculate. I would LOVE to read the short story this short film is based on.
💖🌸💖
Absolutely loved this movie. Great concept, acting, and execution. Would love to see it made into something longer. Really strong premise.
The actor playing the kid is really good! The adults too but it’s rare to get a child actor so talented.
Why was she looking at the shelves and panicking? Nothing disappeared. Wasn’t that the point of the preserves? To act as a warning?
Can someone explain. I am soooo confused. Great acting I just don’t understand.
Basically, somethings disappearing but that’s all I know
Good film but didn’t understand what was happening 🤔🤔🤔
Can someone explain?
I can tell the person who wrote this was a parent. The sleeping on you, the “I’m hungry” but still throw the cooked food away, the shoes, all the questions, all the movement. I related to that so much, and it really put me in the mom’s shoes and made it that much scarier. What could a mother do in this situation to protect her child? Terrifying, love it.
That was a great one! Hats off to the actors, it felt so real. The end is a bit ambiguous, is it referring to being set free after "sky dwellers" are finally dead? Anyways, it's an amazing piece!
I really liked this. Creative concept for a low budget short film. I personally would've preferred it to have ended when it fades to black.
I don't know why, but this film scared the hell out of me. Like War of the World's without the Mars killing machines. Is that blood falling from the sky at the end?
I liked this, neat sort of supernatural cosmic horror in a way
Really enjoyed this. Very interesting and terrifying concept. The actors where great. Would love to see this expanded on.
I think it broke some barriers by pulling us into the character without worrying about black or white. A lot of times movies will overdo it with black characters as if they don't know they're black and they're supposed to learn how to act that way. Very well done.
Let’s think this out….hot air balloon with no one on board, suicide, right? Fly buzzing, mom throwing eggs on the ceiling….fall asleep on basement floor…….red rain 🤔 confused doesn’t begin to explain how I feel or what the director/ writers intentions were. Over my head!!!
@@Morbidplushie why it didn't take the trees? Did it take Bacteria?
@@arbjful Why you asking me, I didnt make the movie XD
@@Morbidplushie ftom your post, it seems you know a lot about this movie.....🤣🤣. Are you a 10 year old kid?
I loved the movie as well but you did say that youde answer some questions…so:
Do you want this possibly become a full feature? I assume the people in the balloon were the first to disappear? Are the mom & son “safe”at the end of the film? Is the blood rain coming from the living things that went “away”? Is it alien in nature or something having to do with our climate? Thanks that’s all my questions lol.😊
So I guess everything got sucked up and is now being returned to the surface in liquid form.
Loved the original story, and this is an incredible adaptation. Beautifully shot and acted!
What adaptation?!
@@Talia.777 see description
can someone explain me all the story please?
That was fascinating!!!! The lady and the boy were absolutely brilliant!. Well done to all!. Subtle things are sometimes way better!! 👌👌👌👌
Never been early to an Alter video glad I am plus a 15 minute video ✨
Absolutely brilliant!
Omg this was SO good! Like really SOOO good! What an amazing concept and execution. The kid was an amazing lil actor!
You’re telling me lady already had a dead fly on her fly swatter that she’d just left from last use
That was off-putting, wasn't it?
This was really well made😅
I loved this!!! Great director!
Very well done. Can't say I grok what was going on, but it still played well. It wasn't terribly scary, though.
Wow! Simply amazing. Beautiful acting, storyline, and scenery. Awesome job to everyone involved in this production.
I need a tv series with all this❤
Amazing one! The atmosphere, the acting, the plot. I would love to see more.
So all that were gone, now rained down and came back in another form. ☺
Anyone who lives in the midwest would have supplies stashed in the basement already. Tornadoes.
Please explain.
As evident by the scene with the egg, the mother obviously had previously experienced the "occurrence" (i.e. things vanishing in thin air....perhaps a better title). If so, why was the balloon a surprise to her? Was Spencer aware of the occurrence? Was the occurrence of a spiritual nature or alien nature?
Why were the initial drops of rain drops of blood, but the downpour of rain just water?
The movie seems like it left some important pieces on the cutting room floor.
i loved this.....really built the tension well, very unsettling feeling and original storyline that still leaves a lot of questions.....it reminds me of something, possibly a Stephen King story, but i cannot quite think which one yet.
That was an interesting story, thanks for the video! Hm, this could still end badly. When they return to the house, the mother is horrified to see parts of her body slowly becoming transparent and disappearing. The rain was red because it washed the remains of the gas from the upper air layers. Now it works slowly on her skin. With the last of her strength, she drags the child into the shower to wash off the chemicals. But it's too late.
Trees as living beings : nothing can hurt us , aliens can't abduct us. 😂
I don't get it. But I enjoyed watching it
Amazing actors, story, and filming!
If the world was vanishing, what was the Red rain? Surely it wasn't blood.
Wow…so,e excellent acting by both of them. Great job everyone involved!
Certified Gold!!!!!
This kid is absolutely amazing!
Good acting, but it’s depressing once again a movie didn’t have an ending with an explanation.
Thanks 👍
So what happens if you’re in space, which way’s up and which way’s down?
I would never understand this horror short if it wasn’t for Reddit. Wow! Anyways, great movie👍🏾♥️
How do I find it in Reddit?
@@danieldevito6380 google «It all started with a hot balloon» 🎈😃
Can someone explain 10:32 I’m so confused
still a bit confused on alot but it was really good!
There is a barrier coming down from the sky that appears to eat anything organic. First the guy who was in the hot air balloon disappeared, hence why it crashed. The scarecrow comment by the kid shows that the scarecrow, whihc doesn’t normally work, somehow works now; in reality all the birds have been absorbed. Then the farmer “spence” who lives upstairs doesn’t respond, then the fly stops buzzing on the ceiling. It implies the barrier is coming down. Then she throws an egg, which is organic material, on the ceiling and it disappears too, so her suspicions about a barrier coming down are confirmed. The jars she keeps pointing a light at are filled with what seem like blood? Or meat, or some kind of organic juice so she can have a visual estimate of where the barrier currently is. She tells him to lay down in an effort to delay the barrier their lives for as long as possible. The air whooshing noise u hear is the barrier.
Can someone please explain to me what the actual HELL is happing in this movie/short feature length flim?!!
The story it's based on is good but the film didn't capture the it very well. It was so confusing for anyone who don't know the story beforehand!
How I know?! Because I had to Google "it all started with a hot balloon" to understand what I just watched!
I couldn't figure out what was going on lol