Savannah Gilmore

While Nick suffers from sleep paralysis and terrifying nightmares, his troubles bleed into his waking days. 2024 Horror short film.

"It Lives in a Cave in the Woods," tells the story of a young woman, Mable, who discovers that the monsters from childhood fairytales pale in comparison to the ones inside us. Mable lives on her father's farm with her mother and younger sister. After her father leaves mysteriously, Mable ponders a folktale he used to tell her as a child about a beast that lives in a cave in the woods. As memories of her father haunt her and tensions rise between her and her mother, defiance and curiosity grows inside of Mable until she stumbles upon an answer she wishes she hadn't.

After a failed suicide attempt injures an innocent bystander, an awkward teenage boy from a strict religious home is sentenced to community service where he meets a trans girl convicted of shoplifting gender affirming clothing.