Horror Short Review: The Quiet Zone (2015)

Alone on a quiet train when something disturbing happens. It’s a consistent location and situation for horror, and often results in genuinely good scares. Partially because of the realness of the scenario, and partially because of talented film makers like Andrew Ionides, who wrote, directed, and produced this horror short.

Jessica Bayly plays a woman on late-night train attempting to get work done in the quiet zone of a carriage. She’s stressed, that much is clear, and struggling to focus on the report in front of her. Then someone in the carriage starts to whistle, a person who she can just see a glimpse of between the seats.

She tries to continue her work, but the whistling is loud and obnoxious, leading to her snapping at the person to stop. Which they do, abruptly and disturbingly so.

It’s her stop, so she’s more than happy to get off the train now, but as she steals one last glance at the mysterious stranger, it appears as though they’ve gone. That is until she hears whistling as she walks through the deserted station. She’s about to have the worst night of her life.

An atmospheric horror short with a genuine level of unnerving twists and turns, The Quiet Zone has a clever story, excellent acting, violence, gore, a payoff that is gleefully dark, and a thick vein of tension running through it. It’s a must-see horror short and you can check it out below.