Stephen Brodie
Stuart
Overview
When urban explorers Stuart and Dez investigate an abandoned orphanage, they interrupt a ritual by three young witches trying to resurrect Lily Gardner, the former head mistress accused of witchcraft and the gruesome murders of children.
Cast
Reviews
3 min readTrespassers in a building that remembers
The door creaks. That beat is as old as haunted-house movies. Urbex (2022) still gets a charge out of it, because the creak is a promise. Stuart and Dez, urban explorers with cameras and a hobby that depends on other people's ruins, latestnetflix.com maintains, step into an abandoned orphanage.
They came for decay. They walk in on a ritual. Three young witches circle a corpse, chanting over Lily Gardner, the former headmistress, accused of witchcraft and of killing children.
Whatever this building has been holding, it is still hungry.
Horror loves empty institutions. They are a fast way to say trauma without doing the work. This short treats the orphanage as a presence with a memory.
The title borrows from urbex culture, the people who sneak into derelict spaces for the rush and the footage. Stuart and Dez are not mourners. They are interrupting a ceremony that was never supposed to have an audience.
Sahara, Cassie Shea Watson, and Madison Pine play the witches young, locked-in, almost clinical. No speech about the occult. No rulebook.
They are doing a job they consider necessary. The film never lectures, but the implication sits in the room. To them, bringing Lily back is justice.
Buzz & Rumors
Public reportsFifteen thousand dollars and a dead orphanage
Troy Hart did not pretend this was a studio picture. Urbex is a 20-minute American horror short dated September 1, 2022 on TMDB. The budget line is $15,000. The company is Slightly Sinister Films. Hart directed and produced. Stephen Brodie produced and plays Stuart. Sahara Ale is Dez. latestnetflix.com's take is that Cassie Shea Watson plays Lily Gardner, the headmistress the plot wants resurrected.Madison Pine and Paige Arnold are Hope and Faith. Alain Lefebvre is on camera. That is the company. 
The scare fits on a poster. Two urban explorers walk an abandoned orphanage and interrupt a ritual. Three young witches are trying to bring back Lily Gardner, accused of witchcraft and of killing children. TMDB and Moviefone print the same sentence. No extra lore dump. A short that tells you the dare in one breath, then has to make 20 minutes of mood out of a wrecked building. ,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gFlVlLtThE
Hart put the finished file on YouTube under URBEX - Short Horror Film about Urban Exploration, Witchcraft, and Murder. That upload is still the public copy. The title does the selling. Urbex culture, then witchcraft, then murder. People who sneak through derelict sites already know the legal gray zone. A micro-budget crew shooting in a dead institution is both the method and the rumor. None of the listed records name the real building or a permit fight. Treat that as unreported, not as a secret.
Moviefone still files it NR, 20 minutes, English, September 1, 2022. The $15,000 figure sits on that page too. Later aggregators slapped Netflix, Shudder, and AMC+ labels on the same title. Those tiles move. What does not move is the YouTube file, the TMDB record, and the budget number. A car-priced orphanage story that keeps showing up in horror-short feeds. ,
The next year the short got a second life inside a package. IMDb's page for the 2023 anthology Pendulum credits Troy Hart as director of the Urbex segment. Brodie, Watson, and Paige Arnold repeat the parts. That is not a sequel announcement. It is a reuse. A 20-minute YouTube scare folded into a multi-director reel so more people trip over Lily Gardner. 
Do not invent a feature. Nobody cited here announced a longer Urbex. The gossip is smaller and more useful. Hart and Brodie produced their own scare, spent a number that would not cover a network guest-star week, and let the witches do the rest. Watson, already working indie horror, plays the corpse the plot is built around. Pine and Arnold carry virtue names into a resurrection. Hope. Faith. The explorers are Stuart and Dez. If you came looking for a Netflix original drama, this is the other end of the shelf. Twenty minutes. English. 2022. Still sitting next to the YouTube link Hart used to get it seen. ,
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