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"Excuse me lady, have you seen my sock?" What strange creation is this? And where is that sock? A peculiar animated short film titled The Bleacher has arrived online. Created by filmmaking duo Nicole Daddona & Adam Wilder, who run a studio called "Magic Society Pictures" in New York City together, this short film originally premiered at the 2024 Sundance & SXSW Film Festivals last year in the Midnight Shorts section. It's now available to watch for free thanks to our friends at Short of the Week. "Where do your missing socks go?" This very weird, very dark 8-minute animated short is about a woman known as "The Bleacher" who is looking for her missing sock at a laundromat. She gets sucked into the laundry machine then ends up in her own subconscious - where she encounter a very creepy singing dolphin. But, uh, why? Starring the voices of Kate Micucci, Ben Sinclair,...

Bloody Disgusting has learned that the horror short The Bleacher has been accepted to Sundance 2024, the short set to World Premiere next month in the US Shorts section.

The Bleacher is directed by Adam Wilder and Nicole Daddona, and produced by Zeus Kontoyannis (“Mr. Sam”) and Zeus Pictures. Kate Micucci, Ben Sinclair, and Sky Elobar star.

In The Bleacher, “The disappearance of her sock at a local laundromat sends a fragile Rita over the edge. Hellbent on finding it, she searches deep and gets sucked into a washing machine, entering an otherworldly cycle from which she may never escape.”

The nightmare begins in the exclusive clip below, which sees Rita getting sucked into the washing machine. In the depths of washing machine hell, she encounters the dolphin man…

Here’s a longer synopsis for the bizarre upcoming horror short:

“The self-service laundromat, Frugal Wash attracts a colorful and often disgruntled clientele,...