'HEIR' Coming to Deformed Lunchbox: A Grisly, Gut-Punching Creature Short
- More Horror
- Apr 15
- 2 min read
Deformed Lunchbox, the insanely popular YouTube horror hub with over 200k subscribers and a voracious appetite for the extreme, is about to premiere something seriously twisted next month—and trust us, you’ll want to watch this one with the lights on.
HEIR is a short film that doesn’t just flirt with taboo; it dives headfirst into it, cloaked in body horror and dripping with psychological dread.
Brought to you by the minds behind indie horror hits Worm and Familiar, HEIR follows Gordon, a seemingly ordinary family man, and his young son Paul as they take a road trip that quickly devolves into a disturbing nightmare. What begins as an online connection with a stranger turns into a surreal encounter that peels back the skin of secrecy and exposes something monstrous.
Robert Nolan plays Gordon with raw vulnerability, a man spiraling into a moral abyss, while genre legend Bill Oberst Jr. is absolutely chilling as Denis, whose first appearance in a diner sets off every internal alarm. You just know something is off, and it only gets worse from there.
The creature work by Ryan Louagie of The Butcher Shop is grotesquely brilliant. Think the biological horror of The Fly mixed with the eerie elegance of Spring. Add in Michael Jari Davidson’s sharp cinematography and Christopher Guglick’s dreamlike score, and you’ve got a short film that looks and sounds like a full-on feature.
But what makes HEIR truly horrifying is its message. It’s not just about the monster on the screen—it’s about the ones we inherit, the ones we hide, and the ones we become. Powell leaves us with more than just shivers. He leaves us thinking.
HEIR will debut next month on the Deformed Lunchbox YouTube channel, known for curating bold, subversive horror with a massive and loyal following. Keep your eyes peeled. This one doesn’t just hit hard—it hits home.
