The Humbug

Production Country: UK
Running Time: 9mins
Year: 2025

In a care home, a sheltered woman breaks lifelong restraint to taste a forbidden mint humbug, discovering ecstatic pleasure. But by failing to leave the required offering, she summons the creature that hungers for what she took.

FILM CREW:
Director: Cole Paviour
Producer: Geoff Stickler
Exec Producer: Adam Dolman, Andrew Davies, Cole Paviour
Writer: Cole Paviour
DOP: Chris Fergusson
Editor: Alex Burt. Cole Paviour
Sound Design: Guy Chase
Composer: Alex Baranowski
Production Design: Charles Whiteway
Costume Design: Moira Chapman
Hair & Makeup: Becca O'Lean, Dominique Colbert
VFX: Tim Wetherall, Jon Evans
Casting: Michael Cox

Cast: Jiggy Bhore, Yvonne D'Alpra, Malik Ibheis


FESTIVALS:
Exit 6 Film FestivalSeptember 2026
Popcorn Frights Film Festival August 2026
Middlebury New Filmmakers FestivalAugust 2026
Kino London Short Film FestivalAugust 2026
Sidewalk Film FestivalAugust 2026
OFF - Odense International Film Festival August 2026
Indy Shorts Film FestivalJuly 2026
Brighton Rocks International Film FestivalJune 2026
Unrestricted View Film FestivalApril 2026
Playgrounds International Film FestivalApril 2026
Cleveland International Film FestivalApril 2026
Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival April 2026
Sacramento Horror Film FestivalJanuary 2026