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:
Unrestricted View Film Festival April 2026
Playgrounds International Film FestivalApril 2026
Cleveland International Film FestivalApril 2026
Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival April 2026
Sacramento Horror Film FestivalJanuary 2026