Scott Barbella-Landy

Hey there. I'm an independent filmmaker, writer, and director from New Jersey.

This channel is home to my short films, behind-the-scenes work, creative experiments, and developing projects... including Midnight Woods and other original stories.

I keep returning to genre stories about people trying to hold themselves together. They build private systems to survive grief, fear, ambition, or loneliness... and the world begins to reflect, distort, or break those systems until reality feels unstable.

Midnight Woods is my developing horror mythology about the psychoid layer... the hidden threshold where mind, memory, story, and physical reality begin to overlap. Through recovered evidence, witness accounts, and institutional fragments, the project explores what happens when people and powerful systems study and exploit that layer.

If you’re into indie filmmaking, psychological horror, analog horror, mystery, strange New Jersey stories, and building films from the ground up, welcome.