In the suffocating stillness of a secluded farmhouse, a desperate family's attempt to reclaim their faith spirals into a waking nightmare. When a routine religious rite goes horrifically wrong, the line between devotion and delusion blurs, and something ancient and malevolent answers their call. As the patriarch, played by Andrew Harker, clings to his dogma, his wife, portrayed by Chloe Blaser, begins to suspect that the entity they have summoned is not divine, but demonic. Their son, brought to life by Jack Hollingshead, becomes the unsettling focal point of a terrifying transformation. Directed by Luke Hollingshead, this eight-minute horror short masterfully builds a claustrophobic atmosphere of dread, where every whispered prayer feels like a curse and the only escape may be to renounce everything they hold sacred. Apostate is a chilling exploration of blind faith and the monstrous consequences that can arise when belief is pushed past its breaking point.