Tag: surreal horror short

UNCANNY ALLEY 02: THE NIGHT SHIFT – ANIMATED HORROR SHORT

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A late-night janitor gets a strange visitor when cleaning in the swimming pool area.

 

For this week’s Horror Short Sunday, we take a look at the animated horror short The Night Shift, which is the second episode of the animated series Uncanny Alley shown on Adult Swim. It’s created by Rodrigo Goulão de Sousa, who is an animator based in France. The episodes are all horror themed, with surreal and often bizarre elements mixed into the creepiness. This episode starts off with a seemingly “ordinary” supernatural event: a bleeding crooked ghost walks by, leaving stains of blood all over the floor. At this point, the janitor seems more downhearted by the fact that he’s got to clean it up, rather than showing any fear over seeing an actual ghost…but then, the ghost starts gibbering some kind of nonsense and we’re suddenly thrown into a surreal, bizarre lovecraftian world of some kind. Certainly worth a watch and all the episodes are available on Adult Swim’s YouTube channel.

 

UNCANNY ALLEY 02: THE NIGHT SHIFT - ANIMATED HORROR SHORT

Director: Rodrigo Goulão de Sousa
Writer: Rodrigo Goulão de Sousa
Country & year: USA, 2024

 

 

 

 

THE BRASS ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM – Horror Short

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The Man sits, sipping tea in an endless void, until a chandelier comes crashing down. The pieces transform into a Woman and the newly met couple wonder endlessly as the void presents objects and events that disrupt time, space and logic.

 

The Brass Elephant in the Room is a surreal and really strange horror short with a dark fairytale vibe to it.

THE BRASS ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM - Horror Short

 

Director: Junior Day, Eleanor Dolan
Writer: Junior Day
Country & year: UK, 2020
Actors: Tatjana Anders, Edward Saunders
IMDb: www.imdb.com/title/tt12032850/

 

 

 

 

O – SURREAL HORROR SHORT

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Jasmin sees a fist-sized hole in a brick wall. She’s hypnotically drawn to it and can’t focus on anything else. An increasingly morbid obsession begins, until the hole suddenly disappears.

 

O is a bizarre and creepy surreal horror short about addiction.

O - SURREAL HORROR SHORT

 

Director: Dominik Balkow
Writer: Dominik Balkow
Country & year: Germany, 2022
Actors: Nadine Scheidecker
IMDb: www.imdb.com/title/tt17013484/

 

 

 

 

GHOST DOGS – Animated Horror Short

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A family’s new rescue pup is terrorized by deceased pets in this mind-bending horror.

 

Ghost Dogs is a truly weird animated horror short where we witness a ghost story seen from an innocent puppy’s perspective. It is atmospheric and slightly surreal, with usage of liminal spaces and occult symbols. And of course, the strange feeling of watching the puppy who only seems threatened by the robot vacuum cleaner, oblivious to everything else that happens around him..

GHOST DOGS - Animated Horror Short

 

Director: Joe Cappa
Writer: Joe Cappa, J.W. Hallford
Country & year: USA, 2021
Cast: Joe Cappa, J.W. Hallford, Sean Dugan, Olivia Carmel
IMDb: www.imdb.com/title/tt13795964/