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Halloween Comedy Shorts: With Shauna Macdonald, Ross Noble, Cariad Lloyd, Richard Herring.
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- 2016-11-07
- Comedy
- Shauna Macdonald, Ross Noble, Cariad Lloyd
These Halloween shorts actually have to do with Halloween. (Oh, the horror!) Have a spooky time watching some of the best Halloween short horror films (some award-winnin ...More. ...More.
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It's the morning of Kelly's wedding and she has turned into the typical bridezilla. So far only one of her bridesmaids has turned up and other strange things are happening at the hotel. Phones stop working, the door is jammed shut and there are footsteps echoing down the corridor.
- Lonesome Ghosts
- Trick Or Treat
- Runaway Brain
- Hair-Raising Hare
- Transylvania 6-5000
- Minnie The Moocher
- There’S Good Boos To-Night
- Deadly
- Kali, The Little Vampire
- Little Witch Academia
For all their family-friendly reputation, Disney is no stranger to tapping into horror imagery and the dark side of fairy tales and folklore. Walt Disney launched his Silly Symphony shorts series with"The Skeleton Dance," a parade of haunts in an abandoned graveyard. But 1937’s "Lonesome Ghosts" plays all its haunts for laughs. A foursome of friend...
From prank-loving ghosts to friendly witches, Disney went back to the supernatural in 1952 for a Halloween short starring Donald Duck. By this time, Donald was less likely to team up with Mickey and Goofy as torment, or be tormented, by his nephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie. Things start out with him as the tormentor in "Trick or Treat," popping the k...
Unfortunately, not every Halloween-appropriate Disney short is on Disney+ as of October 2021. Since its initial theatrical run in 1995, "Runaway Brain" has been hard to come by on any platform. More’s the pity, because this brain-swapping horror comedy is one of the best Mickey Mouse shorts out there. Mickey is very much in his classic, good-nature...
Warner Bros. did their share of horror-themed cartoons during the golden age of the Looney Tunes. There was a short run of pictures where Porky and a mute Sylvester stumbled into various nightmares, descents into Hell by various ne’er-do-wells, and a handful of Bugs Bunny shorts that put him up against Witch Hazel (no relation to the Disney charact...
No, it’s not a cult comedy starring Jeff Goldblum; it’s another Bugs Bunny short. Made nearly twenty years after "Hair-Raising Hare," there’s a clear evolution in Chuck Jones’s style on display. Bugs is now tall and lanky and, in this particular cartoon, politely oblivious to the presence of a vampire out for his blood. At this point in his career,...
"Minnie the Moocher" isn’t set at Halloween, doesn’t feature any classic monster archetypes, and it isn’t technically a horror story. But this Fleischer Brothers short from 1932, among the earliest Betty Boop cartoons, is one of the most surreal and even disturbing animated films of its era. The Fleischers featured jazz musicians in many of their e...
For a lesser-known cartoon character, Casper the Friendly Ghost had a pretty long theatrical career: 55 short films over 14 years. Most were made in the 1950s, part of a dedicated Casper series that relied on the same basic plot 52 times. But the first three were part of Famous Studios’ Noveltoons series, and they offer a bit more variety. Casper’s...
Most of this list is made up of shorts from the classic era of Hollywood, and there are more wonderful films from those years that would fit the Halloween season. But good cartoons to go with Halloween aren’t just to be found in classic cinema, or in America. Ireland is where Halloween first came from, and its animation industry has been riding hig...
Part of a trilogy on childhood from Portuguese animator Regina Pessoa, "Kali, the Little Vampire" has some remarkable visuals. Made with a palette of black, white, and red, the character designs suggest a combination of children’s art, Edward Gorey, and "The Scream" by Edvard Munch. The style is something to behold in still images, but even more im...
By contrast, "Little Witch Academia" is easy to get a hold of for anyone with a Netflix account. You may know it as an anime series, but it began as a short produced as part of the Young Animator Training Project of Japan. On first glance, it’s tempting to write off "Little Witch"as a Harry Potter knock-off: a trio of misfit witches attend a magica...
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Celebrate the Halloween season with our series of horror shorts, starring some of the hottest names in comedy including Jason Manford, Ross Noble, Jayde Adams and Matt Holness.
Jun 20, 2024 · Let’s take a look at some of the best spooky and scary shorts and specials available on Disney+. 1. MUPPETS HAUNTED MANSION. On Halloween night, Gonzo is challenged to spend one night in The Haunted Mansion. 2.
