‘This Place is a Sh*thole’ is a darkly comic horror short by Will Wightman that distills the agony of living in overpriced yet filthy shared flats. Shot ambitiously on an Insta360 camera, the film immerses viewers in a claustrophobic nightmare – where the chaos and grime of communal living spiral into something both horrifying and hilariously relatable.

Director’s Vision for ‘This Place is a Sh*thole’

Having spent my entire adult life in mind-boggingly expensive, soul-destroyingly disgusting shared flats, ‘This Place is a Sh*thole’ was part creative experiment, part therapy. I’ve been playing with the capabilities of 360 cameras for the last couple of years as a way to shoot visceral, and dynamic action sequences quickly and on the cheap. For me, the distorted and grimy aesthetic that comes out of this amazing little camera when you really push it was perfect for a gross and claustrophobic story set in a shared flat.