Mark made a short horror film

Back in 2018, I shot a short horror film. Flash forward, and that film spent some time on Amazon Prime but got pulled because reasons. Fine. This is the digital age. Here it is.

First, the short horror film trailer

Shout out to James Bennet for editing that trailer!

A brief history of this short horror film

Two Sisters cover
The cover to my supernatural action thriller, “Two Sisters,” with design by Maja Kopunovic

Wooden Shed Creative teamed with Dark Elf Films to produce “Where the Heart Bleeds.”

You’ll see a familiar face on screen as I cast my “Shadowdance” saga cover girl, Dani Christina Miller, as one of the sisters.

Rebecca Eileen plays the other sister. Co-producer and member of Dark Elf Films, Valenski Sylvain, brought her to the show.

Sylvain also brought us Alex Chamberlain, our monster for the film.

Mike R. Tinker is a friend of mine from the college years. We’d made a gentleman’s agreement to one day work on a project together. The week of the shoot he had surgery on his arm and then drove down from Hotlanta to make that agreement a reality.

A view from the set of a short horror film

And now the main event!

For more information about “Where the Heart Bleeds” and the folks involved, check out its website. Thanks for watching it.

Mark Wooden

About Mark Wooden

A lifelong fan of James Bond, John Woo movies, G.I. Joe, and the X-Men, Mark created the Shadowdance saga to fuse supernatural creatures, cinematic action, and hard moral choices into one relentless narrative. His debut novel, Two Sisters, launches the Assassin’s Absolution trilogy — a grim, fast-paced tale laced with sharp dialogue and bursts of dark humor. Mark’s short story, “Fall to Grace,” was a quarterfinalist in the 2017 ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Story contest. Horror legend Clive Barker once called the monster in Mark’s independent short film Where the Heart Bleeds “terrifying.” Mark was also a film critic for Comic Book Resources and his college newspaper. Between catching up on movies and comic books, Mark writes fanfiction mashups featuring Batman, Iron Man, and the occasional Mortal Kombat fatality. He’s toured with Jimmy Buffett and Mary J. Blige as a video engineer. Ask him about the time he literally ran into Harrison Ford.