In the suffocating silence of a lonely apartment, a man’s sanity begins to fray at the edges in the chilling short horror film You’re Not Real. Directed by Jay Russell from a script he also wrote, this tense psychological thriller traps viewers inside the deteriorating mind of its protagonist as he becomes convinced a sinister, unseen presence shares his home. What begins as subtle unease—a misplaced object, a faint whisper in an empty room—escalates into a terrifying battle for his reality. The man’s desperate attempts to prove he is alone clash against increasingly disturbing evidence that he is not, forcing him to question his own perceptions. Produced by Akiva Goldsman, the film masterfully builds an atmosphere of palpable dread, transforming mundane domestic spaces into a labyrinth of fear. This compact, five-minute descent into paranoia explores the horror of the mind turning against itself, leaving one to wonder what is more frightening: the entity he believes is hunting him, or the possibility that it was never there at all.