Now Streaming: ‘Bloody Bites’ Season 16 Lineup Includes Joel Harlow’s ‘Old Time Radio’ & More! [Screambox]

Presented by Bloody Disgusting and Scotchworthy Productions, “Bloody Bites” is back for Season 16 on Screambox beginning today, and this season’s lineup is one of the all-time best.

The top-performing original series on the Screambox platform spotlights up-and-coming voices in the genre, with each episode featuring two horror shorts from around the world.

First up, Gavin Bradley’s The Harvester is now streaming as the first episode of Season 16, and it’s exciting to note that a feature length version of the short is now in development!

“Bloody Bites” Season 16 will also feature Academy Award-winning makeup artist Joel Harlow’s “Old Time Christmas,” a collection of holiday horror shorts featuring jaw-dropping practical effects. The series includes four original shorts, which you can read about below.

The “Bloody Bites” Season 16 lineup includes…

The Harvester

Director – Gavin Bradley

Synopsis – A nomadic prospector discovers a massive deposit of rare substance and must fight to keep his find.

Director Statement – “The anxiety of global unrest, COVID 19, and the apocalyptic red wildfire skies plaguing Oregon spurred grim visions of the future. The recently burned area of Detroit, OR, coupled with the need to make something, became the seedbed for a vision of a primitive future marred by the horrors of dehumanization and environmental decline. We developed a bleak, isolated atmosphere to communicate the state of this world and its inhabitants; exploring themes of exploitative cycles and survival through surreal images of a desolate existence.”

Old Time Radio

Director – Joel Harlow

Synopsis – A decaying recluse tunes in for one last terrifying broadcast.

Director Statement – “Old Time Radio was never meant to be just a series of shorts — it was a world I wanted to live in for a while. A place where the dead still have things to say, where horror is theatrical, handmade, and weird in all the right ways. I grew up loving the charm and menace of vintage radio dramas, the kind that relied on atmosphere, suggestion, and imagination — and I wanted to bring that feeling back, with characters and creatures built by hand.

“Across the four completed shorts — OTR, Your Move, Dance With Me, and The Specter of Christmas — I’ve followed a small group of graveyard dwellers through games, ghost stories, holiday hauntings, and doomed courtships. Riktus Grim, Edward Mise, and Mildred Price have become my own little rep company of the dead, returning again and again in slightly different forms — a little worse for wear each time.

“The series is built with practical effects, miniatures, rod puppets, old-school in-camera tricks — anything that felt authentic to the era and fun to do. That physicality is important to me. It’s not just about nostalgia; it’s about creating something tactile and strange and slightly off-center — like those old EC Comics or the broadcasts that used to bleed through when you turned the dial just right.

“I’m currently working on the fifth entry, a Halloween tale, and it might be my favorite yet. These stories keep finding new ways to come back — kind of like the characters themselves. I’m just along for the ride, tuning in as the signal comes through.”

The “Old Time Radio” collection includes…

Old Time Radio: Your Move

Director – Joel Harlow

Synopsis – Two undead brothers play chess — and old grudges resurface.

Old Time Radio: Dance With Me

Director – Joel Harlow

Synopsis – A deadly date night ends with one last dance from beyond the grave.

Old Time Radio: The Specter of Christmas

Director – Joel Harlow

Synopsis – A ghostly poem awakens a spirit to enforce holiday tradition.

This season, we are also releasing a one-hour documentary called Old Time Radio: A Chronicle of Creativity.  This is a making of doc about the creation of Harlow’s short films.

The Spaghetti Man

Director – Jerry S. Gonzalez

Synopsis – A divorcee and her son move into a new home where they find a disgusting but charming “Spaghetti Man” already living there.

Director Statement – “The idea came to me on a flight back home from a horror film convention. I watched a ton of movies that really got under your skin and were absolutely horrifying and I thought what if I made a horror film that made you cry instead. I started with the “child drawing messed up drawings” trope and focused the short on some ominous creature. I was reminded of how audiences in 2017 were ragging on the movie The Bye Bye Man and how dumb that name sounded. So I knew I had to top it with an even dumber name.”

Did You Remember the Cat?

Director – Daniel Foster

Synopsis – Tara and Mitch escape a horror party but must return to save their cat—and maybe their relationship too. 

Director Statement – “Horror is my favorite genre, not only for its ability to scare the viewer, but also because of the opportunity it provides to explore the deeper themes beneath the surface. Often, when watching classic creature features or films where families are forced to fight demons, I would ask myself… “What about their pet? How are they going to escape this horror? Shouldn’t the family save them too?” I raised the question to my co-writer, Autumn Olson, and we began to develop the concept Did You Remember The Cat?

“While creating this story, we asked ourselves, “What if this was set just after Act 3 of a classic horror, when our protagonists escape and then realize they must go back if they’re to rescue their cat?”. This allowed us not only to craft a story that nods to the familiar horror conventions we expect from a film, but also find a fresh take on the horror and bloodshed that our audience won’t be expecting. Our audience will have the added excitement of piercing together, “What happened here? What has the monster done to their friends? How (or…why?) did they summon this thing?”. We were inspired by classics like Evil Dead, Alien, Shaun of the Dead, and Jaws, and plan to pay homage to all the stories both we and our audiences love.”

The Thaw

Director – Sarah Wisner & Sean Temple

Starring – Emily Bennett

Synopsis – In 19th-century Vermont, a young woman’s parents drink sleeping tea to survive the harsh winter, but an early thaw leads to horrifying results.

Director Statement – “The Thaw is an intimate horror folktale based on the legend of Vermont’s frozen hill folk. Ruth and her aging parents, Alma and Timothy, struggle to subsist on a failing farm after Ruth is abandoned by her unfaithful husband. They turn to a remedy as old as the hills, a sleeping tea that allows the elderly and infirm to sleep out the winter months while frozen and packed in snow, to be safely revived in the spring. But when a storm blows in an early thaw, the ritual is broken and the sleepers wake too soon – to horrifying results.

“Folk horror is a backdoor into the human psyche and profoundly illustrates our collective fears. The Thaw is inspired by a uniquely Vermont folktale, representing Vermonters’ special relationship with the elements. Lack of resources and freezing in the winter months was a real threat for Vermonters in the 19th century. But these fears and anxieties haven’t gone away; if anything, they’ve grown.

“Ruth’s journey mirrors the overwhelming dread associated with climate change that has been created and maintained by man’s unceasing hunger for resources. Upon her parents’ return, Timothy’s compulsive consumption dehumanizes Ruth and Alma and threatens their very survival. When Ruth is faced with death at the hands of her father, her self-reliance and ingenuity shine through. Through Ruth’s story, The Thaw pushes us to stand up against the insatiable hunger for resources that is destroying our future. Ruth is driven by an inner will power that won’t let her starve, that won’t let her freeze. Her inner fire burns so brightly that she will find a way. Despite dark themes, The Thaw is ultimately a hopeful story that shows that we can claim agency in the face of an unpredictable future.”

Saint Maria’s Way

Director – Chris Turner

Synopsis – Carolyn never intended to walk home alone at night. When police emergency services receive her call reporting a man following her, they try to help. But between the glitching phone signal and her evasive answers, she proves difficult to track down. 

As disturbing sounds and repeated phrases further pollute the airwaves, suspicion grows that the call is a prank. Until a man is found dead. With CCTV footage gathered and finally compiled, the haunting reality of Carolyn’s story unfolds.

Director Statement – “There are six million CCTV cameras in the UK. Does this technological omnipresence ensure our safety? Or just indiscriminately observe us, coldly documenting the present and creating flickering ghosts of the past?”

No Signature Required

Director – Kenneth Lawrence

Synopsis – Woman discovers a faceless head that claims her features, one by one.

Director Statement – “No Signature Required is a psychological body horror narrative that emerged from my experience of alienation during the pandemic. Due to covid, and certain political realities, it seemed that longtime friends and family were transforming before my eyes, their core beliefs altered (or revealed) seemingly overnight. No Signature Required reimagines this social fracturing through visceral body horror. Like Invasion of the Body Snatchers, it examines how external forces can hollow out and replace people we thought we understood.

“The mysterious box that arrives without warning or signature represents how this transformation requires no consent – it simply happens, leaving us questioning whether we ever truly knew these people at all. The cyclical nature of the horror – with each victim becoming an unwitting vector for further spread – mirrors how polarization propagated through our communities during lockdown, turning neighbor against neighbor, friend against friend, in an endless chain of ideological infection.”

High Stakes

Director – Zac Eglinton

Synopsis – One friend asks another to put an end to his vampirism. Permanently.

The Exorcism of Margot Miles

Director – Ben Swicker

Synopsis – Based on the true story about a young woman accused of being a demon.

Director Statement – “My goal for this film was to capture the fear that young people have, especially girls, to men of religious authority. Young people raised within the church are taught to never question the higher ups in the system, no matter how scary the situation may be. I was looking to that fear in a single terrifying true experience.”

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