# The Willows

- Date: 2026-11-06
- Type: film
- Credit: Forrest Rice
- Genre: Horror
- Artists: [Forrest Rice](https://aifilmhistory.org/artist/forrest-rice)
- Made with: Seedance 2.5, Chronos, Claude Fable 5.1, Claude Opus 5.5, Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, GPT Image 2, GPT Image 2.5, GPT-6 Astra, Nano Banana 2, Nano Banana 2.1
- Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mor0wmm0bMc
- URL: https://aifilmhistory.org/entry/the-willows

A 31-minute cosmic horror film adapted from Algernon Blackwood's novella The Willows. Two men canoe into a flooded delta on the Danube in 1901 and slowly realize the place is aware of them. Directed by Forrest Rice over more than a year, it was built from AI-generated footage across several video models, including Seedance 2.5 and Veo 3.1, then cut in Premiere Pro like a traditional film, shot by shot, with the sound shaped by hand.

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Source: https://aifilmhistory.org/entry/the-willows
Era: Late 2026 · Prime Time
Last updated: 2026-11-14