The Vertical industry is sad, but while it's here lets make it better. There is hope.

I had the wonderful pleasure of moving to LA right when these verticals popped off.. /s.

Anyway I've shot many of them, and while they are terrible scripts, I've met a lot of wonderful people and made a living in the industry. For that whole time, me and my creative partner have been trying to push the genres and the writing in verticals. They don't have to be bad. I've seen amazing feature films made for around $100k ("New Life" comes to mind) [not to mention "Primer" for $7k].

Anyway, we in the indie scene all seem to be hoping that these verticals will get better. So we did it, we got together a group of some of the star actors in these things and cast them in our horror. It's the first vertical horror series, and we hope that it will inspire others to expand the mobisode genres, improve the writing, and level up the lighting. This was a long time coming, other people have felt it too. Earlier this year we met with an actor/choreographer from the matrix and a producer and they were interested in making an action vertical. We wrote it for them but it's holding for now.

The point is, people want other genres and better story telling. It's shudder worthy (pun noted) to turn your camera sideway but, really it's the scene where indies can make money right now. Let's make them better.

Here's the trailer if you want to see:
https://youtube.com/shorts/PtYiM5WT5a8?si=k_M95VtqTBeO4Yrh