‘Portrait of God’ trades blood and jump scares for a chilling stillness. Dylan Clark’s short horror film finds fear not in spectacle, but in silence — the kind that echoes in a chapel long after everyone’s gone. Its slow-burning tension is unsettling in all the right ways.
The story follows a devout girl working on a school presentation about a mysterious painting — Portrait of God. But the face? Always a void. Everyone sees something different, or nothing at all. As she stares deeper, her faith begins to unravel, and reality quietly slips away.The story follows a devout girl working on a school presentation about a mysterious painting — Portrait of God. But the face? Always a void. Everyone sees something different, or nothing at all. As she stares deeper, her faith begins to unravel, and reality quietly slips away.
This isn’t your typical religious horror. There’s no exorcism, no holy water — just the creeping question: What if the divine is unknowable? And worse, what if that idea is terrifying? ‘Portrait of God’ doesn’t give answers — it leaves you haunted by the fact that some questions aren’t meant to be answered.