SOCKMONSTER (2018)- Wesley Alley’s Intense Horror Short is Fresh and Inventive-Fitz of Horror Review

Written by Bryan Fitzgerald (Fitz of Horror) April 15, 2018

You’ll never look at your laundry room the same

Synopsis- SockMonster is a short film that follows Anne, a mother who is shattered by the loss of her young child. Refusing to let her go, Anne finds that its not only socks that go missing in the dryer.

SockMonster clocks in at a brisk four minutes and thirty five seconds but packs every second with dread, despair and intrigue. Writer/director Wesley Alley skips all of the “getting to know you” stuff and seems to jump right to the violent final confrontation between the distraught mother (Briana Evigan) and the child murdering SockMonster (Derek Mears) but does so brilliantly.

It’s not as easy as one might think to give a review on a movie that is less than five minutes long. I will say that in this short amount of time though that Alley masterfully gives attention to all of the little details and has you feeling for our angry and mourning mother. An ominous tone was set from the beginning and lasts until the very end leaving the viewer with the impression that this small amount of time has given you all of the back story, intensity and action needed to be fully satisfied by the time the credits role.

With a premise that could have easily become a comedy, Alley’s use of Derek Mears (Jason from the 2009 Friday the 13th) and his immense size, elevates the monster in question to a very scary and intimidating force.

SockMonster will be hitting festival circuits this year and will definitely be taking home some hardware. We’ll keep you updated on every victory and all of Wesley Alley’s upcoming features!

About the director-

Wesley Alley grew up in a small ranch town in Idaho, where his love for the outdoors,adventure, and excitement was matched only by his love for movies. He distinctly remembers the first time he watched The Goonies and knew he wanted to make movies like that -movies that affected and changed people’s lives. He attended Boise State University for Performance and Direction and then went to Full Sail University, where he received a Bachelor’s Degree in Film and Television Production and a Master’s Degree in Business. After graduating, he became a Union Lighting Technician and joined IATSE Local 728, one of the best Set Lighting Unions in the world. Wesley has worked on some of the biggest movies, including Transformers, Kong: Skull Island, and TMNT, as well as TV shows, including Twin Peaks, Ray Donovan, and CSI. Through all this, he has continued directing, using what he learns from the best and the brightest on these larger productions to take every project to the next level. Wesley is a storyteller at heart who has a deep love for narrative stories of all kinds.

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