Horror Short Review: The Rain Woman (2024)

Created for the 2024 Jakob Owens Horror Short Film Contest, The Rain Woman comes from writer/director Peter Poulos and is based on the Japanese folklore of Ameonna. A Japanese yōkai thought to call forth rain.

It stars Kayden Bryce as Kate; a woman who has run out of gas in the middle of nowhere (or BFE as she calls it – ‘bum-fuck Egypt’) during a heavy rainstorm with her baby. Out of options, she calls her ex-partner Rich (Josh Bzura) for help but both harbour so much bitterness, it goes badly.

She’s on her own, that is until she sees a woman (Tennille Taraszkiewicz) approaching the car.

What was already a dark situation just gets worse from this point on, leading to a genuinely horrible ending. The Rain Woman doesn’t have a lot of ‘meat on the bones’ but what it offers is extremely filling, especially as the entire scenario is so realistic. This is one that will leave you feeling a bit uncomfortable so check it out below.