You watch creatures reshape themselves in a locked room, and the longer it goes the more you realize you're not watching horror, you're watching something being born into consciousness, aware of its own wrongness. The stop motion is deliberately grotesque, a texture your brain rejects, and the score keeps pressing inward until the distinction between unsettling and beautiful collapses completely. This costs your comfort to sit through it, but the cost is the point.

Several strange creatures keep changing their shapes within a single room in this dark, surreal one-episode web short. Built entirely with stop-motion animation, it comes from Kobayashi Masahide and Keita Funamoto, the pair behind The Village of Marchen. True to its psychological label, the film centers on the eerie spectacle of these beings turning into new forms inside that enclosed space.