horror shorts on xbox live? glee!

GameSpot has a cool article out about the premiere on Xbox Live of several short films made to promote the HD video capabilities of the Xbox. The first film to make an appearance was "Janitor", which has brought some newfound fame to its relatively unknown director, John Clisham. Perhaps his problem is that his name is only two letters different from someone already really famous, but I digress. Clisham is totally making it though, as he is currently working on what will surely be a blockbuster, James Cameron's Avatar, which is also in development as a 3D game title. Anyway, there will be five more short films debuting on Xbox Live later this month and will feature some bigger names including James Wan and Leigh Whannell of Saw infamy. I may actually have to plug our Xbox into the internet to check these films out; "Janitor" sounds totally cool:

...the 9.5-minute horror-thriller is a throwback to the gore-spattered slasher films of the 1980s. It profiles a young student who finds her very soul in peril after the custodial engineer at her school undergoes a "paranormal transformation."

Horror filmmaker spooks Xbox Live