Alma short film
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- www.almashortfi...
Written and Directed by: Rodrigo Blaas
Produced by: Cecile Hokes
Music: Mastretta
Art Director: Alfonso Blaas
Lighting Supervisor: Jonatan Catalán
Character Technical Supervisor: Jaime Maestro
Character Design: Bolhem Bouchiba, Carlos Grangel,
Sergio Pablos, Santi Agustí
Animation: Daniel Peixe, ManueBover, Remi Hueso
Sound Design: Tom Myers and David Hughes
Post Production Coordinator: David Heras
Special Thanks: Keytoon, Next Limit, UserT38
The worst part is that, after having to deal with the fact that you will never see your parents or loved ones again, and that they will probably never know what happened to you, you also have to watch the next kid fall into the same trap as you did, and then the next one, and so on.
That's exactly what I was thinking. It must be pretty horrible to see that happen to others with no way to warn them.
I think that little boy in the bike was trying to warn her maybe?. Even tried to escape before the door shut
@@SoulMusic24 Yeah, that's what I thought, too.
@@SoulMusic24 I doubt it, he just wanted to leave himself
I feel like she never had parents.
The missing photos, and why is she alone? Her parents would have came with her.
The fact that there are dolls wearing multiple cutural and period clothing makes it even creepier. This shop must be going around the world for centuries.
oh wow I didn’t even notice that detail. That is creepy for sure
Not the shop but the variants of the story. Where do you think Mary Shelley took the idea for creating an artificial human? Only preceeding here the stories were about clockwork people.
666... hmmm.... (i am the 667th like)
Not to mention the name on the wall that are slightly fading, which means the childrens that got trapped have been the longest than the other
Hello everyone 😊 I'm a male from Holland 🇱🇺 and came across this short animation video.. I'll like to say, that this video was breathtaking beautiful 😍 and you're right A/E/H😊 All the details makes it even creepier, but.. still loves this one 😊👍 Sorry for my language and I'll hope you'll understand my comment 🌞 Wish everyone goodluck over there 🌈🌞 Greetings from Holland 🇱🇺
I CANNOT BELIEVE THEY SHOWED ME THIS IN KINDERGARTEN
SAMMEE💀
Same in school
YO SAME, THIS USED TO GIVE ME NIGHTMARES
im 19 today n this shit is still scary💀😭
@@mashrafi1173 REAL BRO
STILL HAVEN'T FORGIVEN THE TEACHERS FIR SHOWING US THIS IN PRIMARY SCHOOL!
we went to the same school do you remember me
@@2kkkk24 say Ur real name if u want to convince me..then I'll see....
@@leonardosomma4196 Laquarious Hogglefart is the name Sir
AS A PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENT (IM LITERALLY 11) YES.
I only just watched this today at school and it's so creepy
*when you see a doll that looks just like you, you should probably run away*
I would buy that sh*t and keep it
Dido!😰😆
It would be creepy finding a doll that looks like you
Yunji Han what if I want to play with myself?
I don’t like the sound of a doll looking like me that’s creepy
No jump scares, just genuinely scary
2:55
Saw...
Grunt Gamer so true
Dylan Ingle I agree
Nevermind...
sean horan lmao so fucking racist
I don't know if anyone is still reading comments here, but I noticed a cool detail. When the doll first appears, it has two gloves. But after Alma pulls off one of her gloves to touch the doll, it only has one. Really nice touch!
And there is no handle on the inside of the door
the eye colours change too :)
@@Ac_thelivie Ewwwwww, I just noticed that. So even if Alma gave up on finding the doll, I don't think she could have gotten out if she wanted to.
It’s a pretty amazing feat to create one of the most terrifying films without any jump scares or something to send big goosebumps down your spine. This is a fate worse than death. The new doll displayed at the end showing a replica of the next victim is the icing on the cake.
This story is super creepy. Different time period clothing makes me think this shop has been doing this to children for the longest time...eventho not a single word was spoken, y'all managed to tell a creepy story and I am so here for it!!!
agreed
@@thesterrave I think the best is the period clothing of the other dolls, poor Alma so curiously unaware of what is to become of her
@@JusticeOuinn420 i do feel bad for the victorian cyclist, just imagine trying to free yourself and not being allowed idk if he was put back in the same position or somewhere where he couldnt get out
@@thesterrave omg just the sound of that gives me chills directly down my spine!!! I would have to say just the way you described that has to easily make that a fate worse than death!!!
The desperation of the kid on the bike trying to escape is haunting as fuck.
@ige77 who’s going to open the door for that guy on the bike?
And trying to warn her
Yay
😹
@@suziwankenobi8807 🤣
What a wonderfully creepy story. All of you who are saying that you saw it in school, what a terrific teacher you must have!
+Floyd Kelley I DID, IM IN YEAR 6 THOUGH, STILL CREEPS ME OUT THOUGH, LLOOLL.
+Floyd Kelley LOL, sounds like sadistic teachers to me
Julia L why? My teacher showed my class this and everyone got great ideas for a story
My teacher showed it me twice I'm in a y6 and y5 mix she did it so the y5 could write it
Our teacher showed this to our class and said that it's symbolism for liking something so much and closing youself from others xd
4:07
The blonde doll narrows her eyes shortly after looking at Alma, maybe with sympathy, disappointment or sadness, or a mix of those. Could be some sort of weariness too
Probably disappointment.
@@masterjustin2246nah most likely sympathy
I think what generally creeped me out was that one doll behind Alma at 4:08 who just looked completely apathetic and desensitize. Like, "Oh, another one? Oh well..."
I first saw this in college and now i see it again its actually creepy and cool
that girl is trapped inside a doll for eternity let's play happy music at the end
Cause' that'll lift their spirits!
her soul is trap forever in a doll, how wacky!!
Mr.GalaxyFace agreeded
W
Phillip Rathbun bruh if u write ur name on that board then your done for 🙇🙇😪🙈🙉🙊🙊
well alma in spanish means soul...so your soul gets transfered into a doll
Really? :0
Yeah but what happens to the physical body?
Soul... And in Hungarian alma means apple
In Portuguese too, it means soul
Alma to me it's just alma '-'
I was so traumatised and haunted by this short film when I was younger. I think I just had a fear of being unable to speak and being trapped. Truly one of the most scary animations for me when I was young.
My teacher made us watch this and write it into a story when I was in primary school 😭
@@projectdreamzz omfg same i had to pull her aside and ask what are you even doing 💀
@@projectdreamzzsame man
@@ComicBoy730 SAME
4:03 I love how she's looking around like "are you serious right now?"
There are some really creepy things in this animation, and I'm going to explain why.
0:37 wanted posters of children on the wall that probably went missing because of the doll shop. It says "peligro" which means "danger" in spanish.
0:41 the window of the shop looks like a giant monster's mouth.
0:51 the names on the chalkboard are the children who wrote their names down and got sucked into their clone doll, just like what happened to alma in this short film
3:04 the doll on the bike was trying to escape the shop, trying to warn the girl to run.
3:12 the table looks like the planchette (the small piece) of an ouija board, which is triangular shaped.
4:18 the other dolls with their eyes moving are the children who wrote their names on the chalkboard and got their souls sucked into a doll.
Edit: At 3:36 the kid was trying to reach the doll. The doll on the bike that tried to escape and warn alma to run is banging on the door at a much faster pace. It's hitting the door harder which creates the suspense for what's going to happen next.
4:51 i don't know if anyone else has noticed this and idk if i'm right but alma's name on the chalkboard stands out a lot. compared to the other names, alma's name is quite large and it's in the center. the meaning of the name is a bit of a hint too..
some of the names written there are less visible and look like they are vanishing or something. perhaps they have been there for a long time? which is why they are slowly disappearing.
(According to one of the replies) 3:09 The table has butterfly details. Butterflies often represent death (a butterfly leaving the cocoon is like the soul leaving the body). The floor is also a spiral, showing how she’s been sucked into the trap (and how she will end up in the doll).
alma means "soul" in spanish which represents their souls being put into the creepy dolls. Moral of the story is, don't go into a strange empty shop.
lol this helps me in my ela class our lesson is about suspense-
anyway ty! it really is creepy especially the wanted posters 😓
We have to do this movie in school and we had to make a list of these things haha-
Thanks so much this is for my lesson today
Something you and most might've missed: There's no door handle on the inside of the shop's door.
Beautifully explained
4:10 doll in green dress: “you just had to touch it, didn’t ya?”
Pff
The doll with Blonde Ringlets
She looks like Betty boop
The blond one behind the green doll: My disappointment is immeasurable.
Ikr 😭
At the beginning, a wanted poster of somebody with a wide grin is shown. As alma approaches the door, a doll with a wide grin is shown - they could have been the earliest victim and now, the shop-keeper who welcomes the children in OR her only sense (sight/vision) is left. Just before grasping that doll, she must've had a huge smile, thinking about how the doll looked exactly like her and nobody was there to stop her. When people enter the shop, if the dolls had all their senses then they could easily warn the child and draw them away. Maybe she's grinning as she's been there for so long that she's became unresponsive/sadistic to any other children being captured. I'm lead to believe that she's been there for so long as her outfit looks vintage!
A bunch of wonderful layers packed into 6 minutes. Lots to say about how we look for our idealized selves, the need for perfection, the idea that this is a phenomenon across periods and cultures... and a fun detail is how Alma's name is in the credits sequence itself. Makes it seem like part of the idea is about getting recognition even if it means trapping yourself into something with no freedom and meant to be sold for another. Lots about that can be applied for many people trying to break into the film industry or how kids grow up thinking this "house of dolls" is really worth the trouble getting into anyways. Especially loved how the house itself toys with her in not letting her in at first, just like many industries do.
This comment honestly deserves more recognition. Thanks for letting me know the meaning behind this short movie 😊
I felt so bad for the biker doll, imagine the hope he had to finally leave and then the girl doesn’t even open the door for him lmao
I know right? So rude of her!
There's no door handle on the inside
@@ntaentae6264 lol
@@ntaentae6264 imagine she held the door open and everyone just went out 😂
The biker doll is i think warning her
i think the most haunting part is the desperate breathing of the child after becoming trapped in the doll, that you can only hear when watching from her perspective, as to the outside world she is stuck as a silent puppet. really amazing storytelling
Seriously, her breathing gets more and more panicked, yet her doll’s expression is blank, masking her pain and suffering being stuck in the doll
And from there it gets depressing when you see she's gone from animate lively girl with family, friends, potential and a future of motherhood and career to an inanimate object stuck in someone's private collection.
@@ganados0 I don’t even think it’s a private collection. I think the shop is a monster (see the monster mouth for a window) that lures and steals the souls of children to eat them,
Or eats the bodies when the souls enter the dolls. Notice how the door closes and opens on its own, and closes when the bike boy tries to leave.
i just randomly remmembered this work of art existed
Same
A really interesting detail is at 4:12 you can see that Alma’s doll has a glove off just like how she took it off before her soul was trapped
Makes me think the trycicle kid's doll didn't originally have a trycicle
Poor Alma would then see through that window, her parents, in distraught, placing posters of her on the wall of names; shouting her name in the brink of a tearful breakdown.
gee peter that’s pretty dark
@@Emily-wh5ot Sorry. That thought was stuck with me for years since I first saw this short.
If you see in the beginning, all the missing children posters on wall near the shop. Must be some of the kids that were trapped
What goes on in your mind-
@@peterfrank3365 same
Aw the doll on the bikes was trying to warn her and escape :(
ty i could use that in my descriptive writing on this....lol
@@arjjunmanoj7375 what the heck thats exactly what I have for homework
@@veryfiedd same lol we are off school and they made us do work on this animation about a missing poster
@@melux3079 We have to do the same.
@@veryfiedd omg same
I remember watching this wayyy back in year 5, absolutely traumatised
WE SAW IT IN YEAR 3 😭
Same here mate saw it in year 5
Watched this in year 6, five years ago 😭🙏 brings back memories
I watched it in Year 6 as well about 4 yrs ago
I had to write my own version of what happened after she touches the doll as a creative writing exercise in primary school and 8 years later I still find it haunting.
same
yea, we had to do a short paragraph as a writing exercise in year 3?!? this made me have nightmares because i was so little.
I'm doing that tomorrow
Same…
I'm curious, what did you write?
*Beginning of the video*: Aw, what a cute video!
*sees the doll* Shit.
Blizzard You put * around the word. Not like *this. You have to put it around both sides of the word.
Like * this * *hello*
Blizzard Np.
Lol
guinealover6674 !!! Like *this*?
Alma has a really good character design, I especially like her colour scheme!
Imagine Being stuck inside something, begging for help and probably about to lose your mind, while watching your loved ones in tears and searching everywhere for you, althought your right infront of them, your realising there is no hope as you watch them leave the last place you stepped foot on, although..That doll your trapped inside doesnt even move an inch, so there is not even a sign that your trapped inside it.
ohhh!!! this the Backstory of Toy Story....
Yep well there goes my childhood
Prajay G Raj The music reminded me of it, too.
+MrMovieLover I wouldnt worry...
woooooow! New theory
@@guinealover6674 btw this is a ex Pixar animator so I'm concerned
*doll moves from table to shelf*
Alma: Oh, totally not weird at all🙈✨💕👑
Ikr I would have noped out of there real fast
LOL
Hay! My name is Alma!
this is how kids die.... :(
NIALL PFP!! I love him also out of curiosity did you have to watch this vid for school? I did lol
All these people from school or TikTok watching this & I saw it way back when it first came out. Never scared Me. I love the thrills and music in it.
I remember that back in 2010, dreamworks was actually planning to make a movie based on this short with Guillermo del Toro executive producing it, and i was so excited for it, but as time passed on, no updates about it were announced and later found out that it was cancelled.
So the cycle repeats itself for the next child who looks identical to doll? Well, isn't that fucked up......
Its because Alma, and the other children wrote their name on that wall at the start; it is connected.
Plus in ghost stories you have to leave the logic.
Jouni Heinonen hi
Moon Street Hispanic name their kids alma (soul in Spanish)😅
Moon Street mi hispanic cousin is called alma, it’s actually a really common name in south america
Moon Street it’s a common name actually
the doll that's dressed differently 1:47 is the reason the door opens. and she's the only doll with a big smile.... I'm thinking she manages the shop
Maybe
I know I’m 2 years late but I like how when I clicked the time stamp it just an up close frame of the doll 😂😂😂😂
emerald williams u could be right
emerald williams maybe cause she does have a creepy smile
I had a story about that doll. Judging by her costume, I thought she was part of some kind of parade, or travelling circus. The Circus or Parade was travelling through Barcelona (Where this is set), and Circus or Parade travelled down this street or she either ran away, and ran down this street. She stopped and wrote her name on the Chalkboard. You all know the rest, I don't need to continue...
I gotta say, my music teacher showed us this when I was in preschool and it had scarred me for life, but now that I’m older I think this is pretty good! Nostalgia, am I right? 😂
Dude PRESCHOOL? Kids are like 3 when they go to preschool; my goodness
I remember being made to watch this short film when I was 10 or 11 for school, I will never forget how creepy this short film was, good job!!!
I love the detail of this short film, like how the door only has a handle on the outside, the dolls having cultural attire from different time periods insinuating that the shop has been all over the world for centuries, the only doll smiling is the one at 1:47 which also has a poster outside at 0:34, the wall of children’s names more faded than the others signifying how long they’ve been there, the missing children’s posters saying “Danger” in Spanish, The Victorian boy doll on his bike trying to warn her, the butterflies on the triangular table resembling death, and much more!
woahh thats insane
Wow.. talk about paying attention to detail!!!
Did you notice how the window of the shop resembles a monster's wide open Mouth.
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@@ananyasatpathy7694 yess! I was unsure to put that in my comment though since I thought it might’ve been far fetched!
3:45 onwards is horrifying, Alma's soul has been put in the doll, we can see from her perspective which is like she's seeing through a scope instead of human eyes and the only thing she's seeing and liable to see for a long time is this view of the shop. We can infer her doll has no eye lids like the one behind it so they're permanently open all the time, she can't close them for sleep, dust, bugs or anything and moving her eyes is the only power she has left over herself.
She can hear her new eyes move and her own breathing, which is audibly growing into a panic, and it sounds like she really wants to scream but can't and doesn't seem to be hearing the eyes of the other dolls moving suggesting her only remaining sense is vision.
She is going to be trapped there, seeing the sun rise and set for days, then weeks, then months and years. She'll not gain much in the way of information, no family, no friends, no school, no occasions to celebrate, just memories and the possibility she'll lose her mind in a few decades wondering if being human was some delusion.
that's deep
Pretty sure this goes in your 7th grade literature book, not the comment section
@@mushforbrains. you is a gacha tuber shut youre mouths sir you is 8 years oldings makeing
their eye lids are not actually open forever cos that creepy doll on the right next to almas clone could blink
@@sehansadesilva3833 I noticed that one did but it looks like one built to have that feature. The sitting doll to her bottom right has eye lashes built into it's face, the shy doll to the far left on her shelf has eye lids but they seem fixed that way too.
I didn't notice until typing but on the shelf below them is a doll with a green ribbon, her eyes have eye lids so it's possible they all have them.
omg the memoriessssss
i had to study this nearly a decade ago in primary school and i found it so beautiful ive never forgotten about it
makes me feel so old lol
I use this in my 6th grade ELA classes to teach tone and mood. The students always LOVE it!!!
Great. Wasn't planning on sleeping tonight anyway.
lololololololololololol lololololololololololol
Me watching this at 4 am 👁👄👁
@@katrinat3583 I'm watching it at 3am 😶
😂
Respond to a comment 6 years later please
Fun fact: when alma first sees the doll, it has two gloves on, like her (or him) but after she takes off one of her gloves to grab the doll, it only has one glove on.
that's such a neat detail
I didn't see that I am looking very closely its not there
Hold on I see it now
@@ElChipsFiestaBuffet maybe you missed it
Holy cow! Now that's following movement on another level!
As someone who was terrified of dolls as a child and still is, this is the only horror situation i can one hundred percent guarantee say i would survive.
Why is this so terrifying? I had to watch this in school and I legit screamed when she became a doll. I'm weak 😭
Same lol
@@L0Tnotonvr it's so scary though 😭
It was kind of scary
But still like so sad
This animated short is one of the creepiest doll-based horror shorts I've seen! Every once in a while, I rewatch this video to remind me how spine-chilling it is!
It’s really not all that tho
@@breanna6452
Eh, that is a good point lol!
It's probably not particularly special compared to most doll-based horror media/art, but it's still a great animated horror short (imo). ^^ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Same
I learnt this in primary school
One detail I noticed: When Alma steps further into the shop, the tiles she's stepping on start sounding like squelching and organic. You can also hear the same sounds of SOMETHING moving around behind the dolls
Ahhhhh it does
that’s nuts, we looked at this film back in year 6, I can’t believe I’ve managed to find it again
I saw this in like the 4th grade while doing a project on Pixar, we watched a bunch of the Pixar shorts to analyze what the meaning behind them were
Then this played, everyone looked so uncomfortable while watching even the teacher was kinda of shook because of the short. My gut was telling me that this wasn’t Pixar but I didn’t say anything.
After the short finished the teacher just said “Ok… anyone want to give their thoughts?”
No one did.
sad that the doll on the bike tried to escape :( this is a creepy and sad short. And is the table at 3:12 supposed to look like a ouija board piece or maybe its just me who thinks it looks like one
Lia V. No it does look like one
I saw the board
B2! ! Is the rug the board? This doll shop is the game itself. Trapping souls of playful children who desire toys.
Also did she sell her soul by writing her name on the chalkboard?
Lia V. I think the chalk board is a way the doll maker got all the names of his victims (everyone he captured)
i like how this is my quarantine homework. Yes now I'm going to write a full story about alma and not get nightmares.
same here atleast im not the only one
something even scarier i got shown in yr 4 is francis
that was terrifying
why are your teachers making your watch this? what subject is this for?
@@aris6463 literature/ English
@@aris6463 English, i had to write a gothic fiction or something, i don't remember.
We watched this in year 6 agesss ago and I still remember- we had to write a writing peice on it.
and my teacher said sum about how the biker was probs trynna prevent alma from touching the doll, but it actually looked so deperate to escape that place-
SAME lol
What's your school
The doll on the bike was trying to warn Alma to get out
Here are clues:
There are missing posters
The window is shaped like a monsters mouth
The clone of Almas doll had gray eyes but when the real Alma touched it the eyes turned green
There are Vicortion dolls which means this has been going on for hundreds years
When Alma is about to touch the doll the doll on the bike starts banging on the door harder
The dolls are traps to lure kids into touching them
The names on the wall or window are kids that have been trapped by the dolls
And that's all Bye❤
Coming back to this after almost 9 years is weird to see how vividly I remember this story
Ikr??? I still remember it and rapidly got back to see it
damn@@stariveart
same #memoryunlocked
i remembered i found this masterpiece when i was around the 3rd grade. back then i was too dumb to understand how creepy the plot is. suddenly today, i really want to watch this film again. now that i'm in 11th grade, i found the plot is actually so disturbing somehow...
Just being trapped unable to move for eternity, nobody will ever find you and it’s just horrifying
@@tactical_ghost199 Kinda like kars from jojo tho everything was good after he stopped thinking
12th now?
@@tactical_ghost199 ah they only have to wait another 5 billion years til the sun explodes and finally they will actually die...
You have an inkling of what she's lost: her future as a human being.
Bro, I watched this during ELA and it sent a chill down my spine
If u actually look close enough there are missing posters on the wall of what looks like children! not only that but when the lil doll falls you can actually see it tried to escape the shop! Idk I just thought that was cool😭 thx for reading!
if you look carefully, in the beginning there’s a few missing posters all over the walls and one of them is a sketch of a little boy with a bit of a side part. when alma enters the store his doll is sitting on the left side of the door :)
Not 'his' , her. Alma is name for girls.
@@_Inesitaa_ i’m not referring to alma. im referring to the boy in the poster. HIS doll is shown in the store.
oof thats scary
never thought about that
Other dolls: First time?
Alma: ``👁👄👁``
HAHAHA
Lol, I think it happened so many times that the doll with the curly blond hair behind Alma’s doll seemed annoyed or was like “welp, another stupid kids done it again” by the look of her eyes 👀
They're probably like hi how are you 😂😅😊😊 caught up in this mess too 😭😭 but In hindsight tho it's not funny
We had to watch this in primary school almost ten years ago so that we could practice our creative writing. Scared the hell out of us.
Same! Omg
Teacher: what did Alma trip over?
Me: *BICYCLE BOY*
LOL WE CALL HIM “IVON THE BICYLE BOY LOL”
LOL My class calls him Benson from Toy Story (And Jigsaw)
😂😂😂😂
THE BOYS IN MY CLASS LEGIT STARTED SCREAMING AS SOON AS THE SOUL OF ALMA GOT SUCKED INTO THAT DOLL AND IT WAS SO FUNNY LMAOOO
BRO SAMEE
Bro whaat
In mother russia, the dolls plays with YOU!
Tayce Axel this is spain
really? that would kill me if it was true
That's Soviet Russia ya dunce.
APXByonic *ehem* this is america, police be trippin now
Ironically there is a person who lives in Russia who does these types of stuff
watched this in primary school
oml same.. It was kinda interesting to me-
this short film scared me so much as a kid
I'm 52 and watched it now
the first time. I find it
scary.
The tricycle doll is Victorian, he's been there for over a hundred years!
3:10 look closely at the shelf when Alma's looking around, specifically at the space where her doll appears when she ducks her head seconds later, there's a black shadowy mass she failed to notice.
One of the twin dolls at 3:30 is damaged, it's eye is cataracted, given that Alma's doll is more attractive then her physical self the dolls are built to perfection as a lure, the damage may have happened after the soul transfer and it seems the shop doesn't repair damaged dolls.
4:20 I wonder if that was a mother and her daughter in the top left corner who wandered too close to the store and were trapped.
4:35 She's an adorable doll, she'll soon be the vessel of some sweet girls soul.
Also Alma's doll before she was in it, had grey iris eyes with what looks like a camera lens, when she touches it at 3:45 we see images of her, snapshots of her screaming she may have been in two places on touching it seeing herself from the dolls eyes and reacting in shock to this. We see her perspective after this, her being pulled into a circle of featureless porcelain dolls passing them into one that has it's arms out in a welcoming fashion, as if the doll she was absorbed by was embracing her. The Victorian boy is gone at this point, maybe time has passed or the boy was placed back on his space magically.
Fate worse than death. The only solace these victims have would be going mad and losing themselves to delusions amidst the monotony of their new "lives"
I don’t get it where’s the mum and daughter
@@hijabis4life Pause at 4:20, at the top left you'll see two dolls: a large one in a grey dress and a small blonde girl in an olive dress.
@@ganados0 damn wtf didn’t realise that
What shadowy mass?
If the children's souls transferred into the dolls then what happened to their physical bodies???
om nom nom
The store is an entity that eats people, mostly kids cause they are easier to drive inside the store. So their bodies are eaten by that thing.
omg
it would've been increasingly creepy if as she's looking frantically around the shop something suddenly shoves her off the shelf plummeting onto the sofa bouncing off and landing upside down in front of her cold dead body staring straight into her lifeless dead eyes
maybe they disintegrate?
The fact that the townspeople didn't even notice that loads of kids went missing, the same names of the kids were on the wall, and creepy dolls looking like their kids were just across the street
Most likely adults cannot see the shop.
i accidentslly found this shit again it jas been so long my old choldhood trauma is BACK.😢
A new meaning of Toys are us 🧸😂
Holy sh1t
Toys "R" Us isn't creepy at all. In my country, the store closed down 2 years ago due to bankruptcy. It is now Amazon.
@@BobaShakeMallow think a bit more with what he meant with “toys are us”
OMG this fucking killed me 😂😂😂😂😂
😟
I watch this 6 years ago at school and I just realized that the dolls are all wearing clothes from different eras. The shop must have been going on for ages lol
For anyone in my class who’s watching this; there’s missing posters, not only kids have been tunred into dolls (there are adult dolls, and some dolls have been worn down, indicating that they have been there for a while.
I watched this about 11 years ago when I was in year 5. I still occasionally watch it and it still leaves me speechless like it did the first time.
Watching again and again ! This short movie keeps revealing its secrets each time ! The first reflection of Alma on the shopwindow portrays It as an eye!The shop is watching Alma passing by , as it watched all the other children before. The shop is alive , the shop is evil !
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I could barely eat dinner after watching this, I was so freaked out! Now, almost a decade later, I have returned, and am gratified to know everyone else is just as spooked! Also, if you're a teacher, don't freakin' show this in your class! You're gonna screw kids up!
Im still somewhat phobic of dolls from this. When i was shown it in school i was terrified.
I thought I was the only kid in my class seriously freaked so I didn’t say anything lmao
i got shown this in school 5 years ago, they showed it us in writing club and we had to describe details of what was happening
My teacher let us watch this in our class 💀💀
@@orca_finn same
The desperation of the kid on the bike is haunting as hell.
Indeed! It seems as if he's trying to escape!
Lebron would’ve lived.
I watched this in Primary School 😂. Good times.
We watched this in Y5 (4th grade) and holy damn... Are they even allowed to show this creepy stuff?
Same!!!
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ComicalGeeks//VideoGames SAME I acc jump out of ma chair in class
I almost died xD
ComicalGeek -- I'm in year 5 and we watched this yesterday
pastel axolotl watched this two weeks ago in year 8 watching it again for homework purposes lol
Why does this remind me of coraline so much?
Because the horror, dolls, and animation style.
The doll coraline had that the boys grandmother had
dolls looking like the main character occurs in both stories
because both Coraline and Alma didn't understand that a doll that looks just like you should be an instant red flag
Can we just say when she throws a snowball the handle goes down
The table, in the center of the shop where Alma finds the doll for the second time, is shaped like the ouija board planchette.
Judging by the time period several of the other dolls' clothes are from, they've been stuck on that shelf for many, many years. The little boy on the bike looks Victorian. I wonder if they have any sense of time passing, or of the fact that anyone who would have missed them or continued to look for them is long dead. I wonder if they had to watch people give up searching.
Imagine being there for that long and watching each kid make the same mistake you did ages ago
Wall: poster for missing children
Dolls: missing children
Shop: kidnapper
This is my interpretation of the film please feel free to tell me yours
I agree
I had a theory that the building itself is actually sentient. That would explain why everything moves around on its own and why the window looks like a face.
Uhu
mine is just dont touch things in creepy shops
Wall: A lure, who started off that trend?
Dolls: contain the souls of the missing children, what happens to their bodies? are they absorbed? turned into some fuel for the store?
Shop: Crafting these inanimate bodies and transferring the souls to them for reasons unknown. Could be evil in that it targets children or it may be benevolent and ignorant of the gravity of what it's doing.
I remember watching this in Y5 and being creeped tf out of it. Crazy to re-watch it now.
Who else has to watch this in primary ?
Me 👋🏻
I wouldn't call this creepy or scary whatsoever. More like very interesting; a concept that deserves elaboration. I get serious Coraline vibes from this.
BHM Productions Same! I thought I was the only one thinking of Coraline.
BHM Productions I heard it will be made into a movie soon.
Rainpooper Me too. Do I want to see it? I really can't decide.
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It does look like it would make for a genuinely creepy movie that doesn't rely on jumpscares. But I have no idea how they want to make a whole story about this.
Rainpooper I guess we'll see, but for now we can hope for the best.
The one with the bicycle trying to escape unfortunately the door closed.
Mission failed, we’ll get em next time
I would never ever go near a doll like me for that very reason, or because of a sick prank
I remember seeing this in primary school, tried looking it up at some point in 2022, forgot name though, thank god tiktok is so relatable LOL
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i know its predictable...but i hate how it ends like its just a normal cute short film when its actually not... IT BARELY SOUNDS LIKE NOTHING HAPPENED
Maybe that's the point. A doll stealing someone's soul is just another ordinary day in this world. It happens, but life just keeps on moving.
J Downs that kind of make it worst XD
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Ik how you feel Vegeta 😂
@@bluephire I think the animator is trying to tell us about child abductors too and after so long people just act like it's an ordinary day while the familes is worried to death the chalkboard shows the children who we're abducted, the shop represent the abductors and the dolls represent how abductors lure children to them like a friend or a fun treat but it's really a trick making the moral of the story if be careful who you meet and never talk to strangers
I never really understood why some kids desired to have a doll that looked like them. Like no, I don’t want a mini me, that’s just creepy, I want a doll with her own unique looks and style!
Also, I can’t help but wonder a few things:
1. Once you write your name on the chalkboard, are you doomed? Or can you just ignore the shop all together and continue on with your life?
2. Say there’s a child that doesn’t want the doll that looks like them, and instead takes a liking to another doll in the shop? Would they be able to escape with another doll?
3. With that many children going missing, it makes one wonder why there seems to be no action being done to prevent it. Like, why would children still be allowed to walk around by themselves unsupervised? Why isn’t there more police on patrol or something?
Regardless, this is a very creepy and wonderfully animated story!
Also why is no one else there?
Yeah that is a good question. I also wonder if there is a shopkeeper who hides somewhere in the shop, or has a room in the back or something. He/she probably has intentions to trap kids.
@@himynameisdan9259 i think it's a shop created by some devils
1. Maybe, a child could just run along without checking out the shop, writing your name on a wall used to be bad behaviour so they could technically do that and bolt at the first sound behind them thinking the storekeepers after them.
2. With the camera lens eyes gone, the doll may not absorb their body/soul, so they might be able to leave or maybe the store won't let them until they let the doll go. It should be noted there's no door handle on the inside, maybe they'll be stuck until the next child comes along but by then curiosity may kill the cat so to speak.
3. In some places kids are allowed outside to play, in modern times they're less inclined with the mod cons and parents fears they'll be picked up but in some places kids can run around freely. We don't know how many the store takes, it might only take a few within a time frame, like five kids every ten years.
They probably did but when nothing happened they let their guard down. They had their own lives to lead.
The boy on the bike trying to get out nearly had me crying
This is so disturbing I remember getting nightmares as a kid
I believe this was based on Europe when kids disappearing like 10 millions back then.
Europe governments announced that they did that few months ago and thats why there's Europian kids at random place working in harsh condition
We watched this in our school and everyone screamed at the same time it was funny but also scary 😰
I don’t know ;-; same but we didn’t scream
Scream? Me and my class can't relate though :) Nobody screamed...
Same
no i was the only one scared I STILL AM
I also watched it in school WHAT THE HELL IS TJOS
Fun Fact: This was supposed to get a feature length film, with Guillermo del Toro producing it.
I’m here from school writing ✍️ making a story at school about alma