Fill Your Stocking With These 5 Eclectic Sci-Fi, Fantasy, And Horror Shorts – Gizmodo Australia

Tis the season for three-hour moviesbut weve got five shorts that wont be nearly as demanding on your attention span this holiday season. Two are seasonally-appropriate (including a film thats debuting on Gizmodo!), but weve also got vampires, animated animals, and a new episode of spooky web series The Kirlian Frequency for you to while away your time.

Carl Shanahans three-minute slice of grim holiday cheer is making its internet premiere right here on Gizmodo. Made in just one day, The Gifting imagines just what kind of comeuppance the spirits of Christmas might dole out to a Santa-for-hire who steals gifts from orphans.

A stirring lead performance by Natalie Paul (Mr. Mercedes, The Deuce) anchors this Vimeo Staff Pick from director and co-writer Nikyatu Jusu. Set in a world where there are vampires of all races, Suicide by Sunlight follows an African American nurse named Valentina (Paul) whos also secretly a vampire, and capable of daywalking thanks to her darker skintone. That doesnt mean life is easy for Valentina, as she balances work/being-a-vampire struggles with losing custody of her young daughters to an ex who wants to protect them from discovering anything supernatural about the worldbut especially anything supernatural about themselves.

Four minutes of adorable weirdness propel this animated tour of a facility where humans are learning to live as animalselephants, parrots, and so on. But as Short of the Week explains, Louis Mortons short is actually set in a world thats been devastated by climate change. These people arent just having a jolly time pretending to be turtles and seals, theyre actually researching how to fix their broken world. Whether or not you get that from Floreana, its still a nifty little film.

Heres another holiday-themed one...sorta. This irreverent Vimeo Staff Pick from Ritzy Animation (direction is credited to Two Jeffs) takes a look at a former champion reindeer whos fallen on some hard timesbut is determined to return to his former glory before December 25. Cue the training montage!

Weve been fans of animated web series La Frequencia Kirlian (also known as The Kirlian Frequency and Ghost Radio) since it debuted back in 2017, and we were thrilled to see its first season pop up on Netflix earlier this year.

Now, creators Cristian Ponce and Hernn Bengoa have paid a return visit to the mysterious town of Kirlian, where a late-night radio DJ takes calls from the supernaturally distressedincluding the main character in El Escape de Bilder, whos either a patient or a prisoner at a very strange hospital.

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