Fill Your Stocking With These 5 Eclectic Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Shorts

‘ Tis the season for three - hour movie — but we ’ve dumbfound five short circuit that wo n’t be most as involve on your aid span this holiday season . Two are seasonally - appropriate ( including a film that ’s debuting on io9 ! ) , but we ’ve also commence lamia , revivify animals , and a new instalment ofspooky vane seriesThe Kirlian Frequencyfor you to while aside your time .

1) The Gifting

Carl Shanahan ’s three - bit piece of mordant holiday cheerfulness is making its net premiere right here on io9 . Made in just one day , The Gifting imagines just what variety of deserts the John Barleycorn of Christmas might dole out to a Santa - for - hire who steals gift from orphan .

2) Suicide by Sunlight

A stirring lede performance by Natalie Paul ( Mr. Mercedes , The Deuce ) cast anchor thisVimeo Staff Pickfrom director and co - author Nikyatu Jusu . Set in a macrocosm where there are lamia of all races , Suicide by Sunlight follows an African American nursemaid advert Valentina ( Paul ) who ’s also on the QT a lamia , and able of “ daywalking ” thanks to her darker skintone . That does n’t mean life is easy for Valentina , as she equilibrate work / being - a - lamia battle with misplace hold of her vernal daughter to an ex who wants to protect them from discovering anything supernatural about the world — but especially anything supernatural about themselves .

3) Floreana

Four minute of adorable weirdness propel this animated go of a installation where humanity are hear to live as animals — elephants , parrots , and so on . But asShort of the Weekexplains , Louis Morton ’s short is really arrange in a world that ’s been devastate by climate alteration . These people are n’t just having a jocund clip make to be turtles and seal , they ’re actually researching how to fix their broken world . Whether or not you get that from Floreana , it ’s still a nifty picayune film .

4) Red

Here ’s another holiday - themed one … sorta . This irreverentVimeo Staff Pickfrom Ritzy Animation ( counsel is credited to “ Two Jeffs ” ) takes a look at a former champion Greenland caribou who ’s fallen on some hard time — but is determined to revert to his former glory before December 25 . Cue the training collage !

5) The Kirlian Frequency: “Bilder’s Escape”

We ’ve been fans of animated web serial La Frequencia Kirlian ( also known as The Kirlian Frequency and Ghost Radio ) sinceit debuted back in 2017 , and we were thrilled to see its first time of year soda water up on Netflix sooner this year .

https://gizmodo.com/the-creators-of-spooky-animated-series-the-kirlian-freq-1833161004

Now , creators Cristian Ponce and Hernán Bengoa have paid a return sojourn to the cryptical townsfolk of Kirlian , where a late - nighttime tuner DJ takes calls from the supernaturally in a bad way — let in the principal lineament in “ El Escape de Bilder , ” who ’s either a patient or a prisoner at a very strange hospital .

A little girl learns the spooky truth about her mother in Suicide by Sunlight.