The Kid and the Camera - A Short Horror Film
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Published 2023-01-15
A young boy named Cailen with a broken camera is visited by a sleep fairy called the Cipsneed, but he's never heard of a sleep fairy. Enjoy!
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[FULL REVISED CREDITS]
Written, Directed,
Animated, Scored and Edited by
Braiden Ortiz
Narrated and Voiced by
Richard Stibbard (www.fiverr.com/rmstibbard)
Blender VHS Effect by
BGVC* (youtube.com/c/BGsVideoChannel123)
TV-Y Logo by
Ian Smith ( • Noggin/Nick Jr. TV-Y Template 2005-2011 )
Sound Effects from
Free To Use Sounds (www.freetousesounds.com)
Nathan Olson ( • Room Tone Medium Room Sound FX )
Sound Effects ( / @sfxworld ) ( • Ambience - Room Tone Hum - SFX Produc... )
Siimon Sounds ( • Tapping on glass window - Sound Effec... )
YouTube Sound Effects ( • Shutter Click sound effect (no copyri... )
YouTube Audio Library
Stock Images
“Triceratops liveDB.jpg” by Dmitry Bogdanov (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en) Used as poster reference.
“Close-Up Photo of Broken Mirror” by Tima Miroshnichenko
“Cute kitten” by Rudy van der Veen
“Cute pink golf ball with a smiley face free picture for commercial use” by Kat Bautista
“Dog, French bulldog, Grass image” by Christel Sagniez
3d Evergreen Tree Model by
Lyrog (www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/3d-evergreen-tree-134…)
Blender Textures from
Poliigon
cgbookcase.com
TextureCan
Modeled, Textured, and Animated in
Blender
Edited in
Adobe Premiere Pro
Scored in
Cakewalk
With Instruments by
Spitfire Audio
A Grumbled Ink Entertainment Production
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All Comments (21)
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Absolutely amazing. Needs more views. I loved every second. I was so distracted by how cute and innocent it looked that I forgot it was a horror film. making the horror aspects that much stronger.
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One of my biggest paranoid fears is looking out my window at night and seeing someone there. The introduction of the fairy unsettled me a lot
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I like that they didn't use a creepy creature for when the boy saw his kidnapper, just a regular man, like in reality. This shows that the intentions of this short-film are to show the reality of things, magnificent.
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There's something so sad about the fact that Caleb probably followed the Kipsneed because he thought he would get in trouble if he told his parents that he broke his camera. Feels way too real, too close to how little kids think and how predators take advantage of little kid logic
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What makes this even creepier is that the man knows Caleb’s name, this suggests he knows Caleb’s family, which, if you know how common it is for child predators to be someone who knows the victim, adds another layer of realism
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A small detail I love is that when the killer used the sleep fairy disguise/puppet thing, it said that they knew the kid’s name and that they haven’t been sleeping. Meaning that they had been stalking them for awhile which is just scary as hell to me.
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the fact that the perpetrator is a human and not a cartoonish monster like I was expecting, is much more disturbing and scary because it’s realistic. this sort of stuff unfortunately happens on a daily…
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The fact that it seamlessly shifts from an innocent bedtime story to a taping of a child abduction case where only the boy's feet could be found gives me chills. I can only dread to imagine what became of him and his parents...
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It’s sad when the narrators tone drops when he enters the home. It’s like the narrator knows how the story will play out and while he can’t be disappointed in the outcome it still makes him sad that that’s the way things went
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If you think about it, it’s sort of like a PSA warning children against the dangers of strangers
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The scariest part for me is that the narrator never confirms Cailen is dead. He could've survived the loss of his feet, and is still held by the stalker, somewhere out there where the police will never find him.
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Somehow the completely clean, bloodless cuts on the ankles makes it all the more eerie.
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I haven't seen anyone talk about the fact that when the Sleep Fairy is talking, his antennae looks unnervingly similar to human eyes. You can see it best at 2:48 and it's probably not meant to be like that, but when I saw it I had a chill cause it felt like there was an actual adult person puppeteering the Sleep Fairy, creepily watching Caleb as he lures him into his eventual demise
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I'd like to imagine the narrator is actually the murderer and he's just recounting the tale like it's some story to himself for an extra level of spook.
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I love this because they never resorted to a cheap jump scare, instead they let it sit until they could hit you with the final scare of just the realization of what happened
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the one time the cameraman actually dies.
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A detail I didn't notice until my 10th viewing is at 4:49 the kid hears rustling in the nearby forest after the Kipsneed beckons him, almost like he was being followed at the same time, which would imply that this isn't a single predatory man but a group of predators which as a thought is terrifying
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Small detail but I love how the "tiny toe" logo disappears at 5:20. It takes away that level of immersion in believing that this is a real kids TV show, and replaces it with the feeling of viewing a slideshow of found crime footage. The innocence has been lost. The boy is far past the point of return.
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The subtle shift in the narrator's voice as the boy goes into the house gave me chills. It's a small detail but it's perfect
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One of the scariest parts is that the “fairy” knows everything about all of Caleb’s friends. Even if he really doesn’t, it still implies Caleb isn’t the only child he’s seen/approached.
