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

Beyond the Night - 360° Horror Film and more 360 Horror

First, a few 360 Horror Shorts Worth Watching:

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*This one isn't 360*

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Chloe (Rachel DeRouen) and Ryan (Zack Scott) arrive late to their engagement party due to the start of the zombie apocalypse in the first ever 360 full feature horror/zombie film.
With Zack's brother Vinny (Brennen Cowart), the couple fights to survive in this 360 homage to George Romero's Night of The Living Dead.
Co-starring Andrea Flowers, Timothy Allen, Patricia Eakin, William Swift and Jason Fought.
Written by Michael Hennesy and Brennen Cowart.
Directed by Jason Fought and Michael Hennesy.
Director of Photography/Editor Daniel Shih.

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Short Films and Interactives

This short film "WEIRD BOX" integrates your Instagram (or anyone's account, you just enter an Instagram username) into the story..

WEIRD BOX

An interactive short film by Noah Levenson

"All Flowers In Time"

"A guided tour through the shattered remains of memory and identity."

Directed by: Jonathan Caouette
Written by: Jessica Brunetto and Jonathan Caouette
Starring: Chloë Sevigny

"On the TV, “I am not from this place” declares a French cowboy. An old toothless man asks, “Do you know why you’re here?”. These shape shifting personalities infect young children with an evil signal in the form of a Dutch TV show. The red eyed girls and boys believe they can now become other people and monsters much to their delight."

and since we're on the subject of Chloë Sevigny,


here's her short-film directorial debut

"Kitty"

"Alike"

Alike, an animated short film

"A father tries to teach his son about life"

CREDITS:
Directed by: Daniel Martínez Lara & Rafa Cano Méndez
Produced by: Daniel Martínez Lara & Nicolás Matji
Music by: Oscar Araujo
Production Manager: Eva Márquez Matías
Sound by: Aleix Vila

"MELTDOWN"

"Last night's leftovers battle for their lives."

STARRING:
David Cross as Ham Sandwich
Emanuel Borria as Spaghetti
Genevieve Jones as Milk
Ryan Bradley Heine as Celery, Jam, Pudding
Daniel Hartley as Mayo
Sunny Peabody as Butter
Justin Uretz as Orange
Marty Dusig as the Man
DeAnne Trimarchi as the Woman
Directed by Dave Green
Producer: Ryan Hendricks

"Blue Season"

Director/Producer: Lee Jones
Producer/Scriptwriter: Georgina Higgins

"Blue Season"
starring Daisy Ridley ("Rey" in Star Wars: The Force Awakens) as Sarah.

"Sarah wakes up to find herself hanging upside down in a cellar and receiving instructions from some creepy guy through a Bluetooth headset."

*It was originally made for a 48-hour film challenge, where the filmmakers were given prompts and make a short-film before the deadline.

Lastly, here's the newest set of short films like the ones I posted not too long ago:

The Previous Sets Of Short-Films

Check these out if you haven't seen them

These new shorts are about Motherhood, the set is called "Conception":

A Mother's Promise: You Can Be Yourself

Laurin's husband was an activist. Her son chose to be brave in his own way.

Short-Films: Michael Cera, Megaball, and Monsters

POLAROID

"It's the things we can't see that terrify us the most..."

CAST:
Alex - Ethan Mikael
Monster - Kevin Michael Shiley


CREW:
Writer | Producer | Director | Editor | Score - Joey Greene
DP | Color | Sound | VFX - Paul Houston
SFX Makeup - Morgan Falschlehner
AC - Garrett Holbrook

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GREGORY GO BOOM

Starring:
Gregory: Michael Cera
Rose: Sarah BurnsTom: Brett Gelman
Summer/Cheyenne: Anna Rose Hopkins
Attendant: G. Maximillian Zarou


Written and Directed by: Janicza Bravo
Executive Produced by: Doug Deluca, Daniel Kellison and Mickey Meyer
Produced by: Janicza Bravo, Debbie Chesebro and Brett Gelman
Director of Photography: Christian Sprenger
Edited by: Cine Bravo
Head of Production: AJ Tesler
Post Production Supervisors: Josh Kurz, Trish Hadley
Assistant Editor: Aron Fyne
1st AD: Crystal Munson
Production Designer: Rachael Ferrara

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YOUR LUCKY DAY

"A megaball drawing sends a convenience store spiraling out of control."

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:

Short Films

For those who haven't heard, vidme decided to shut down and close their entire damn site, out-of-nowhere and permanently..

Which means I now have a ton of fuckin' video embeds and links all over the place to fix or delete, so for now here are some playlists from our youtube channel that are full of Short-Films (mainly horror).

I'm a fan of good short-films so I'll still be collecting the best of them all in one place, but they'll be posted on here now instead of having a dedicated channel or "tube" like our vidme account was,

If you're a fan of 'em too keep an eye out for more...

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If you've never seen it, "Kung Fury" is an epic short with a throwback '80s style:

"Who's There" film challenge from Bloody Cuts:

• Entrants were invited to create their scariest horror-short, the only rules were it had to be under 3 minutes long and use the theme of “Who’s There?” •

Ghosts, Zombies, Vampires, Werewolves, Serial killers, Evil clowns, Psychos and Insane cultists, Giant killer lizard beasts from hell, Found footage, Horror-Comedies, Documentaries.. a little something for everybody..👇

Winners got $13,000 in prizes and a chance to have your work seen by industry top professionals.

*I put the winner of the challenge at the very bottom by itself*

*The "Who's There?" Challenge Winner*