Hand-drawn Halloween: three animated shorts for the spooky season

Hand-drawn Halloween: three animated shorts for the spooky season

Celebrate the spooky season on Klassiki with this special selection of classic horror animated shorts from Eastern Europe. Featuring the psychedelic folk horror visions of Wizards from Hungary’s István Orosz and Dóra Keresztes, the Gothic chills of Pavao Štalter and Branko Ranitović’s award-winning Edgar Allen Poe adaptation The Masque of the Red Death, and the gruesome creature feature revenge story of Joško Marušić’s Fisheye.

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Hand-drawn Halloween: three animated shorts for the spooky season
  • Fisheye

    Directed by Joško Marušić • 1980 • Yugoslavia

    Man’s dominion over nature is turned on its head in Joško Marušić’s gruesome short, a cult classic from the Zagreb School of Animation. Ocean dwellers rise from the depths to take revenge on the residents of a remote fishing village while the men are...

  • The Masque of the Red Death

    Directed by Pavao Štalter and Branko Ranitović • 1971 • Yugoslavia

    This eerie Yugoslav adaptation transforms Poe’s classic Gothic tale into a disturbing cautionary tale about the dangers of sexual temptation. Capturing the castle of Prince Prospero in moody ochre tones, directors Pavao Štalter a...

  • Wizards

    Directed by Dóra Keresztes and István Orosz • 1985 • Hungary

    Recalling the avant-garde artistry of Chagall and Kandinsky, as well as the folk traditions of the Carpathians, this short from master animators Dóra Keresztes and István Orosz is a fine example of the Hungarian psychedelic school. Dep...

  • Notes on Klassiki’s Halloween animation collection

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