Public-domain horror has given us killer Pooh bear, murderous childhood icons, like Steamboat Willie-era Mickey, and a graveyard’s worth of “sure, why not?” premises. Some are fun, some are… choices.

Cartoons from the first half of the 20th century are creepy for a lot of reasons. For one, many of the lead animators in the early days of film had dark senses of humor. Secondly, while cartoons came ...

Joe Loftus’s 2022 short Still Up There will creep inside your senses and linger far longer than you desire. An astronaut on the brink of death regains consciousness in the vast emptiness of space.