THE SURROGATE | Omeleto Animation
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- Опубликовано: 6 дек 2020
- A man on a date encounters a strange creature.
THE SURROGATE is used with permission from Stas Santimov. Learn more at / ssantimov .
A man is on his way to a date with his girlfriend when he encounters a mysterious strange creature. He impulsively destroys its nest, causing it to invade his body and immobilize him. But as it turns out, that's not the worst monster that crosses the man's path...
Hypnotic and deliciously creepy, animator Stas Santimov's animated horror short delivers a tale worthy of a modern-day Edgar Allen Poe, full of chills, terror and an ice-cold brutal sense of comeuppance.
Much of the film's spell is due to its visuals, which have a dark, painterly uncanniness to them. Each image is captivating, with details that build character or add a mordant whimsy to a scene. Undeniably accomplished, the moody palette and especially the distorted bodies have almost a murky, water-logged quality to them -- almost as if they're reanimated corpses come back to life. An evocative soundscape and darkly ambient score also builds a full sense of the narrative's world and imbues it with an ominous and otherworldly foreboding.
But beyond the visuals and sound, the storytelling is also consistently compelling, laying down the pieces of the puzzle with a patient deliberateness (and without dialogue): the waiting girlfriend, the carelessly destructive man, a desperately placed phone call.
But the story gains real traction and momentum when another character enters, one with its own agenda, intrigues and longings. And when these paths cross, it unravels a climax and ending that is skin-crawling and horrific and made even more so because it plays out with the same measured pacing, augmenting a feeling of further doom.
THE SURROGATE takes advantage of animation's narrative and imaginative possibilities, taking a story that perhaps would be gross or shocking in live-action and rendering it as a dark, sinister fairy tale in the animated medium. It's almost a strange, inverted take on the story of LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD, with its riff on a walk through a dark wood and other motifs of that classic narrative. (To detail more would be to give away the ending.) The real gift is how THE SURROGATE both feels complete in and of itself, but invites viewers to wonder what happens next -- demonstrating what a dark spell it has cast through its command of art, story and dread. 
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creepy story. stunning design.
You know - the story was creepy. The art was creepy. But it felt and sounded amazing. They did a really good job
I love these short animations and I am loving the style of this one!!
So cool, the atmosphere is really perfect for this type of story! Props
real guy: 4 fingers
med guy: 3 fingers
It was creepy and surreal but still had to know the rest of the story!
This is one of my faves. Amazing animation 👌✨
Jee that’s terrifying
One thing I don't dig, why would the ambulance driver bandaging his victim's head (after he removed his victim's face) putting him in the ambulance and setting fire and burn everything? GREAT and creepy story, very well made animation!
He burned the evidence for obvious reasons. Having the face bandaged is a necessary visual que that everyone recognises as a face transplant. If it was just a skull and gore it would look like he was eaten or attacked and would be confusing to some.
Fav channel ever
Looks beautiful
That was scary af
Strange animation cute dog
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Defiantly worth my time
Defiantly?
@@RebeccaLynnMusic definitely* HAHAHAHA
@@notnormaldude3069 I'm laughing!
Omg this was awful 😨
It gave me 🥶
🍅 Thank You!
Don’t get it. Too esoteric for me. I’m tired of these ambiguous videos
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