Ben Hohener is a young writer and director from Toronto. He is drawn to stories that live in the uncanny. Driven by creating visceral displays of surreal grotesquery matched only by the inherent humanity that oozes from these stories like a burst blackhead, he also writes literary fiction alongside directing.His debut short film, Some Like It Rotten, premiered at the Toronto Indie Horror Fest in October 2025, and since then he has been hard at work crafting two feature-length screenplays:
A horror/sci-fi dystopia to be adapted to an animated film.A dark thriller with a unique twist he plans on directing himself in the upcoming year.
Hohener wrote his first stories in preschool: stapled together scribbled-over pages, and by his teenage years completed his first full-length novel titled Scarecrow. In the literary world, he is wrapping up the last stages of a novel-length horror anthology he began post-COVID titled My Brain Decaying on a Pile of Rocks.Inspired by whatever late-night infomercial leaks into his subconscious, Hohener is delighted to share his bizarre vision of the world with you.

Film

Some Like It RottenShort (2025)

Sober CrueltyShort (2024)

SLIR Trailer

from Some Like It Rotten (2025)

farmland

2-minute short film farmland (2025)

Literature

Contributions
& Other Work

Journalism

Writer for the Annex Gleaner, a monthly published local newspaper serving Toronto’s greater Annex neighbourhood
Annex Gleaner
Writer for Postmedia Network's Healthing, the premier destination to inform, educate and connect readers to the latest healthcare news and issues that matter most to Canadians
Healthing