Animated Horror, Fantasy, and Dark Comedy Short-Films

Palm Rot

Investigating a mysterious explosion in the Florida Everglades, a crop-duster named Bill discovers a lone crate that survived the wreckage. Curiosity gets the better of him and he pulls the crate unto his airboat. That’s just the first in a series of decisions he learns to regret.

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PostHuman

Animated sci-fi thriller short film featuring the voice of Tricia Helfer (Battlestar Galactica).

Set in an adrenalized future of espionage, assassins, and out of control super science, PostHuman follows a genius hacker and his dog as they help an enigmatic young woman to free the remaining test subject of a black ops ESP test lab.

Produced by Colliculi Productions.

Directed by Cole Drumb.

Animation studio: Humouring The Fates

Voice of Kali: Tricia Helfer

Voice of Terrence: Ulric Dihle

Original Music: Neill Sanford Livingston

*Awards:

Screamfest 2012 -- Best Animated Short

Maelstrom International Fantastic Film Festival 2012 -- Best Animation Short

Arizona Underground Film Festival 2012 -- Best Animation Short

Couch Fest Films 2012 -- Best Sci-Fi Animation

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After The End

For Rene Fustercluck, life was bad, the Apocalypse was awful and then Gordon arrived. 'After the End' explores the possibility that the only thing worse than being the last man on earth, is being the second to last man on earth.

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I Am Glad We Can Be Honest About This

Father not really there, mother the guardian still, daughter with her secrets and son with the solution. In this erratic classically animated short film we meet a modern family that is divided and battling demons. Murder, Vengeance, Lust, Truth, Loyalty. And Dance. Oh sweet dance!

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Less Than Human

In the aftermath of a zombie outbreak, zombies are cured and exiled to secluded camps. There has been talk about rehabilitating post-zombies back into society.

Steve, the journalist reporting on the case, thinks the zombies still pose a threat to society. He ventures into one of these camps to prove to the world that rehabilitation is out the question.

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Steadfast Stanley

Stanley the Pembroke Welsh Corgi is left behind in the break of an apocalypse.

All he wants to do is get back to his owner…

Asian Horror

Tokyo Gore Police

"Põrgu" / Hell

"Põrgu" or "Hell"

An Estonian grotesque animated film by Rein Raamat, Tallinnfilm, 1983. The animation brings three Eduard Viiralt (Wiiralt) engravings from the 1930's to life:

”The Preacher“

“Cabaret”

and “Hell”

"The engravings and the animation were created in a time of great uncertainties: in the 1930's Viiralt was reacting to the anticipation of the War and in the 1980's Raamat was having a presentiment of the chaos that the USSR’s collapse would bring about. Both depicting a feast in the time of plague, indulgence, and surreal satirical representations of people’s vices."

*More Art by Wiiralt:

Some Star-Studded Surreal and Scary Short-Films

Maybe I'm alone, but I didn't know that for the last few years NYT Magazine has teamed up with filmmakers and "actors-of-the-year" to make a series of short-short-films based on a subject.

After watching them, last year was the best in my opinion. It was Horror or "Fright Club" and the year they did villains in the "Touch of Evil" series was good too. You can see them all below and each short is only around 1 minute long. I went ahead and gathered them all because if you go looking around on NYTimes Magazine they only let you read a few articles for free and then they want you to pay for a subscription to continue, but if you still want to see the original layout and stuff, those links are below too. I'd check out "Fright Club" first, it's semi-interactive and has a pretty cool design and look to it.

Fright Club and Touch of Evil:

The Villains:

1. Jack Nance as Henry Spencer in David Lynch’s ‘‘Eraserhead’’ (1977). 

2. Images of invisible men, including ‘‘The Invisible Man’’ (1933) and a photo of the Chinese artist Liu Bolin (in front of the taxi van). 

3. The ventriloquist’s dummy Fats from ‘‘Magic’’ (1978). 

4. Louise Fletcher as Nurse Ratched in ‘‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’’ (1975). 

5. Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko in ‘‘Wall Street’’ (1987). 

6. Charles Laughton as Captain Bligh in ‘‘Mutiny on the Bounty’’ (1935). 

7. Dominique Sanda as Anna Quadri in Bernardo Bertolucci’s ‘‘Conformist’’ (1970). 

8. The silent film star Pina Menichelli. 

9. Catherine Deneuve as Carole in Roman Polanski’s ‘‘Repulsion’’ (1965). 

10. Faye Dunaway as Bonnie Parker in ‘‘Bonnie and Clyde’’ (1967). 

11. Malcolm McDowell as Alex in ‘‘A Clockwork Orange’’ (1971). 

12. A still from ‘‘Green Street Hooligans’’ (2005). 

13. Lana Turner as Cora Smith in ‘‘The Postman Always Rings Twice’’ (1946).

The rest include some 'girl-power' in an all-female series, surreal dreamlike scenes in Take Flight and Wide Awake, some classic Noir with a 360 twist, "Making a Scene", some kissing, and more.. Enjoy..

Cool 360 intro to Take Flight:

The Take Flight Series:

All of the rest:

Links to articles:

The Mega Plush Episodes

 Get Ready for Vigilante Plush Justice 

 Against the Evil SOC - Society of Chimps
(Sock Monkies)

 If the Punisher was a teddy bear, he'd be Mega Bear - Leader of the Plush Vigilantes 

 Mega Tiger, the knife fighter, stars in episode 2 

Episode 3 coming soon (update-playlist at bottom)

 "Ted" ain't got shit on Mega Bear 

  The Mega Plush:  

"Set in the shadows of a gritty underworld, a war is brewing. The Mega Plush, a group of four plush toy vigilantes, are struggling against the uprising of the SOC (Society of Chimps) army. Good vs evil. Bear vs sock monkey. The question is 'who has the stuffing to survive?'"

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 The Mega Plush: Episode 2: 

The tension in the city is high as the SOC’s manhunt for the vigilante group, The Mega Plush, wages on.

With the promise of a handsome sum of money dangled before them, many business owners have joined forces with the SOC cramping The Mega Plush’s extracurricular activities. Armed with his two trusty knives and an "I don't give a stitch!" attitude, Mega Tiger welcomes any foe who dares to interrupt his hunt for booze and broads.

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  The Making-Of Mega Plush: 

Take a look behind the curtain.
Delve further into the darkness and see how it was made.
Awesome 3D CG Animation.


Episode 3 coming soon:

The Mega Plush

In the gritty underworld of the big city, under the cover of darkness, a war is brewing. The Mega Plush, a group of plush toy vigilantes are struggling against the uprising of the SOC army (Society of Chimps) and their evil leader, whose master plan is to dictate over the plush kingdom and eradicate the last thing standing in his way, The Mega Plush.

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