Welcome to Today’s Post the 2003 Animated Stop Motion Short Film SEPARATION Directed, Written, and Animated by Robert Morgan. Robert Morgan has spent the Last Two Decades creating a Body of Work Characterized by Nightmarish Stop Motion, and Described as a Disorienting Trip into the Subconscious. Morgan has sited Francis Bacon, Edgar Allen Poe, and The Brothers Quay as some of His Biggest Influences.
Robert Morgan in His Own Words:
“ As a kid, I always found stop-motion creepy. I love horror and making nightmarish films, and stop-motion animation is perfect for that. The way everything moves has an unnatural, uncanny feeling, a weird jerkiness. Everything is somehow alive and dead at the same time.” -Robert Morgan-
Plot Summery: A Pair of Conjoined Twins are Separated when They are Adolescents with Dire Life Long Consequences for Them Both.
Welcome to Another Installment of Short Horror Film Friday featuring the Surreal British Cult Comedy Horror Web Series DON’T HUG ME I’M SCARED . The Web Series was Created by British Filmmakers, Graphic Designers, Artists, and Animators Becky Sloan and Joseph Pelling. DHMIS Consists of 6 Episodes, Released from July 29, 2011 to June 19, 2016 through The Artists’ Website, YouTube, and Vimo. Every Episode of DHMIS Utilizes Live Actors in Costume, Anthropomorphic Puppets, Traditional Animation, Stop Motion, and Computer Animation to Tell Each Story in the Series.
Each Episode Revolves around Yellow Guy (and His Father Roy Gibbleston), Red Guy and Duck Guy meeting One or Several Anthropomorphic CHaracters, Who begin a Musical Number related to a Basic Concept of Day-To-Day Life complete with an Upbeat Melody similar to that of a Nursery Rhyme. As Each Song progresses, it becomes Apparent that its Moral/Message is Nonsensical or Self-Contradicting, and that the “Teacher” Character has an Sinister Ulterior Motives. The Climax of each Episode Typically Involves GRAPHIC VIOLENCE, BLOOD SHED, GORE, OR PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR!!! Later int he Series, the CHaracters begin to Questioning the NAture of Their Reality and the Bizarre Messages of the Teachers.
Welcome to this Week’s Installment of Short Horror Film Friday featuring NO THROUGH ROAD 4 the Final Short in the British Psychological Horror Series. This Installment is a Bit Different because Below the FilmWe have Our Series Synopsis where We examine the Four Films in an Attempt to Deduce What it was all About/What was Going On. If You haven’t seen the Three Previous NO THROUGH ROAD Short Films We Highly Suggest You Do before watching NO THROUGH ROAD 4 (You can Find all Three Previous Shorts Here in the Movie Category in case Some aren’t Aware).
Outstanding Questions Entering NO THROUGH ROAD 4:
Will the Boys Manage to Escape from the Man in the Mask Alive?
Who is The Man in the Mask
What is the Endless Loop All About?
What Happened to Steven during the 3 Years He was Missing and Presumed Dead?
What is Steven’s Connection to The Man in a Mask?
What does Steven Know that HE’s Not telling the Others About?
How did the Boys come to Find Themselves in this Sinister Situation to Begin With?
Whats the Significance of the Tunnel?
What’s the Significance of the NO THROUGH ROAD Signs?
Can the Man in the Mask Be Killed and if So How?
Why is the Man in the Mask Terrorizing Travelers (What’s His Motive)?
Enjoy.
So What was it all About: Final Summation
Basically, the Boys Found the House and Figured Out that the Mysterious Man in a Mask that Terrorizes the Boys Lives There. Essentially, The Man in a Mask has been Living Out in the Middle of Nowhere, Tormenting and Quite Possibly Killing People Who Unknowingly Dare Trespass on His Property. Now, the Interesting thing Here is that You have to stop thinking Steven and The Man in the Mask are Two Different People.
The Signs that said “No Through Road” were a Dire Warning to Travelers. How things go for Steven is as follows:
Present: They Found Steven (When He shows Up Out of Nowhere in No Through Road 2)
Past: He was “Murdered” along with His Friends.
Future: The Man in the Mask/Steven Knows what the Tunnel is and Tries to Warn People Off from it.
Instead, People/Travelers go through without thinking, so He Tries to Scare Them Away. The Tunnel itself is like the Movie Groundhog Day; an Infinitely-Looping Series of Events that Only the One(s) Who are Aware and/or Experiencing them can Prevent. Steven believed that if He Prevented The Man in the Mask (Himself) from Attacking the Past Him, it would Somehow Alter the Outcome of the Events that Followed. Unfortunately, He Ended up Attacking Himself and Repeating the Events that lead to Him being Discovered. Horrified by what He had Done, Steven Runs Away and Hides where Nobody can find Him, Unless They go Searching. He stays there for Years, scavenging together Food and shit for However long and doing His Best to Prevent a Repeat of Events. Except each day, He Repeats the Same Thing in an Eternal Loop.
The Reason Why the Boys can’t Hurt The Man in the Mask is because He Does Not Exist at the Same Point in Time. Steven in the Future has Learned that Not Only did the Tunnel Trap Him in an Infinite Loop, but with some Practice, He can Jump to Specific Points in Time.Steven is No-face. He wants to Prevent Other People/Travelers from Experiencing His Hell. He knows No Matter what, Regardless of what Point in Time He jumps to, the Events that are Keeping Him there are a Fixed Point in Time. Anything that Happens following Someone’s Discovery of the Tunnel Automatically becomes a Fixed Point in Time that keeps You Trapped Unable to Escape.
We are Thrilled to Present OPERATOR Episode 2 By The Insanely Talented Animator Sam Barnett. We posted the Original Stop Motion OPERATOR a while back and were Excited to Learn Mr. Barnett was turning it Into a Web Series (in Fact Operator Episode 3 is Currently in Production with a TBA Release Date).
When Asked about the Operator Series Barnett was Quoted as Saying the Following.
“I released Operator as a standalone short in 2013 and got much more recognition than I ever anticipated. I got inspired to make more and spent the next two years (between working other jobs) writing 14 new episodes. I got interest from a major studio to make it as a feature but it didn’t pan out. I considered working with a smaller horror production company that wanted to make it as a webseries but it wasn’t as good fit. After two years developing the series I decided to stop waiting for permission from studios and launched a successful kickstarter campaign to make Episode 2 wich We released in 2017.”
Note To Reader: First Off We highly Suggest You watch the Original Episode of Operator before watching Episode 2 since Episode 2 starts where Episode 1 Ends.
Brief Recap: The Story Follows A Blue Collar Worker Who Works Tirelessly for a Giant Faceless Corporation. He Labors away Day in and Day Out Confined to a Small Cramped Room doing Menial Tasks for His Entire Shift. One Day at Work an Unknown Creature finds its Way into The Man’s Utility like Room and Attacks Him. The Mysterious Creature Climbs onto the Man’s Head and Proceeds to take over His Body, But that’s Not All. If You want to Know the Ending of Episode 1 You’ll have to Watch it and See for Yourself.
Welcome to the Malevolent Monday Movie Featuring 2007 Independent Horror Film Directed By Dustin Austen The Grindhouse Massacre!
Brief Plot Summary:
The Grindhouse Massacre follows a Washed up Scream Queen turned Television Host Named Virginia, whom refuses to do the Very Nude Scenes that made Her Famous in a Movie Titled Evil Bed 2: Nude by Dawn. While trying to take Her Career in a Different Direction as a Host of an Underground Television Horror Show.
When Virginia’s Distributer Threatens to Drop Her because Her Movies are No Longer in Demand. As a Result She goes on a BLOODY RAMPAGE as She tries to Rid the Business of Stupid, Nudie Horror Films, and the People Who Star/Produce the Movies. Virginia won’t Stop by just KILLING PEOPLE, She’s Documenting the Whole Experience and Plans on Making a Movie that will Resurrect Her Virtually Dead Career.
Enjoy.
We Hope You Enjoyed this Tale of Violence and Revenge as Much as We Did.
FYB Sick Sunday Cinema is Ecstatic to Present the 2001 Japanese Independent Dark Satirical Horror Movie SUICIDE CLUB Written and Directed by Sion Sono.
Suicide Club (known as Suicidal Circle in Japan) gained a Considerable amount of Notoriety in Film Festivals around the World for its Controversial, Transgressive Subject Matter and Overall Gruesome Presentation. The Movie has Developed a Significant Cult Following over the Years, and Won the Jury Prize for “Most Ground Breaking Film” at the 2003 Fantasia Film Festival.
Brief Plot Summery:
The Movie Begins with the GRISLY SPECTACLE of 54 Teenage School Girls commit Mass Suicide by Jumping in Unison in Front of an Oncoming Train. This appears to be Only the Beginning of a Wave of Suicides that Sweeps across Japan, Baffling the Police and Panicking the Populace. Shortly After the Schoolgirl Suicides Two Nurses at a Hospital Commit Suicide by Jumping Out a Window. At Both Locations, ROLLS OF HUMAN SKIN are Found from the BODIES OF THE DEAD!!
Three Detectives -Kuroda, Shibusawa, and Murata- are Notified by a HACKER Named Kiyoko of a Link between the Sudden Rash of Suicides, and a Website that SHows the Number of Suicides as Red and White Circles. Does the New All Girl Group Pop Group Dessert (Who’s Latest Hit Single has Hypnotized the Nation) have anything to do with It? Will the Suicides Ever Stop? Will the Three Detectives Uncover the Cause of the Tsunami of Suicides Plaguing Their Country???
You’ll have to Watch and See for Yourself. Enjoy
We Hope You Enjoyed SUICIDE CLUB as Much as We Did.
We are Ecstatic to Report that Today at a New Video in the Ongoing Supernatural Horror Web Series Hi I’m Mary Mary was Posted. The Episode is Title anagnorisis, and at a Whopping Run Time of just over 36 Minutes makes it by Far the Longest Episode Yet.
This is Exciting because thought the Series has Span Over 4 Years Now, and is Still Ongoing it can Be Quite a While Between Episodes. The Previous Video Titled The Last 8 Months was in Fact Posted 11 Months ago in June.
If You Haven’t seen the Prior Post Titled The Mystery Of Hi I’m Mary Mary We SERIOUSLY SUGGEST that You go and Check it Out First. There 17 Prior Videos for Your Viewing Entertainment along with a Ton of In -Depth Information Pertaining to the Series.
A Extremely Brief ReCap:
The MAin Character is Named Mary who wakes up trapped in a Copy of Her Parent’s House, and Has No Idea How She got There.
There a Total of Four Different Demonic Entities in the House along with Mary. The Fiendish Foursome Torment Mary Relentlessly.
Mary has an Ally in The Woman In White who Dwells in The Garden, but Mary is Utterly Unaware of This. To make things worse The Lady In White has been Desperately Trying to Relay MEssages and Warnings to Mary, Yet Apparently the Four Foul Entities are Intercepting Her Communications.
The Series Bleeds Over into Mary’s Actual Twitter Account and Blog, and each Platform provides Clues and Hints as to What is Going on in the Series.
FYB is Psyched to Present the 1997 Canadian Indie Science-Fiction Horror Film CUBE Directed and Co-Written by Vincenzo Natali. Cube has gained Notoriety and a Rabid Cut Following, for its Surreal Atmosphere and Kafkaesque setting and Concept of Industrial, Cube-Shaped Rooms.
Brief Plot Summery:
Six Total Strangers Awaken One Day to find Themselves Trapped and Alone in a Cubical Maze. Once the Characters meet up, The Group Works Together (Each Using a Specific Skill They Posses) to Navigate Through The Complex Collection of Cubed Rooms.
There is Rennes Who is a Renowned Prison Escape Artist, Student Leaven Who is a Math Prodigy, Doctor Holloway (Who beside Being a Doctor is an Avid Conspiracy Theorist), Kazan is a Servant Who, Quentin is a Police Officer can Out Calculate Leaven, and Worth Who was Unknowingly part of the Design Team who Assembled the Cube.
Each Room is a Cube within the Cube, with Six Hatch Doors opening into Other Rooms, But a Percentage of those Rooms are Equipped with DEADLY BOOBY TRAPS! Not Only That But the Total of 17,576 Rooms ROTATE Their Position within a Set Time Limit causing Disorientation, Confusion, Frustration, and Down Right Insanity.
Using Math Prodigy Leaven’s Math Skill (and Eventually Servant Kazan penchant for Mathematics), The Group Press Forward, Upward, and Downward through a Series of Hatches to Try and Locate the Cube’s Outer Shell and Escape the Cerebral Nightmare. Will The Group Get Away or are They Doomed to Die in the Confines of the Menacing Cube? Will They be able to Unravel the Mystery of the Cube’s Creator(s) and it’s Intended Function? You’ll have to Watch and See for Yourself!
Enjoy.
We Hope You Enjoyed This Tale of a Killer Cubes as Much as We Did.
In this Installment of TIDBITS FOR SHITS AND GIGGLES We have a Two for One Special of Sorts as Ghost Song features the Music of David Byrne and the Artwork of Stephen Gammell.
David Byrne is a Singer, Songwriter, Musician, Record Producer, Artist, Actor, Writer, Music Theorist, and Filmmaker who was a Founding Member and Lead Singer (as well as the Principle Songwriter) of the New Wave Band The Talking Heads. Byrne has Released Solo Recordings and Worked in/with Various Artists Mediums including Film, Photography, Opera, Fiction, and Non Fiction. Byrne was also Inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
The Song in the Video is called HORSES
Album: IN SPITE OF WISHING AND WANTING
Stephen Gammel is an Illustrator of Children’s Books who is Best Known for His Gruesome, Nightmarish, Surreal, and Unsettling Illustrations for Alvin Schwartz’s Short Horror Story Trilogy Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.
Welcome to another Installment in the FYB Short Horror Movie Showcase featuring THE SMILING MAN and DON’T MOVE!!!
THE SMILING MAN By A.J. Briones in Association with ALTER (a Company that Traffics in Short Horror Movies) is a SINISTER little Endeavor. In The Smiling Man an Innocent Young Girl watching Cartoons starts to Follow a Trail of Balloons throughout Her House. At the End of the Trail the Little Girl comes FACE TO FACE WITH PURE UNADULTERATED EVIL!! The Smiling Man’s has an Overall “The Devil’s come for Your Daughter” Tone makes it Even more Unnerving. It lends itself to the You feeling You’re watching a Powerful and Vicious Predator Luring its unsuspecting Prey into Striking Distance.
What We particularly Enjoy about The Smiling Man is it reminds Us a Great Deal of Asian Horror. Asian Horror for the Most Part Deals in Disturbingly Demented Psychological Creepiness as Opposed to an All Out Gorefest. It’s a Truly Unique Stylistic Form of Creepy that irks You to the Bone. The Smiling Man is the Kind of Creepy “Cat in Mouse” Horror Movie that leaves You feeling Uneasy, and it tends to Linger Hauntingly in Your Mind for Days after Watching. Enjoy.
DON’T MOVE By Bloody Cuts and Directed by Anthony Melton is a Throw Back to the Devious Demon Centric Horror Movie Classics from the 80’s Ouija Board and All. One of the Impressive Facts about Don’t Move is though it was made on a Very Small Budget the Movie yields High Production Value Effects and That’s No Exaggeration We Assure You. The Other Amazing thing about the Film is the Acting is Exceptionably Good. Since Acting Terrified is One of those Things that People think is Easy When that couldn’t be Farther from the Truth the Actors really Bring it Home.
The Other Aspect of Don’t Move that We particularly got a Real Kick Out Of was if Don’t Move was a Roller Coaster it Starts with/on that First Massive Plunge Down sending You straight into the Heart of the Action. From the BLOOD SPLATTERED Opening Scene Don’t Move’s Backstory has Been Told, The Deed is Done, and The Demon has Come So DON’T MOVE!
We Hope You Enjoyed Coming Eye to Eye with The Vilest Evils as Much as We Did.
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Les Sober & FYB 
Les Sober & FYB 
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Presented By Les Sober
Presented By Les Sober