December 23rd

December 23rd

December 23rd

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December 23rd

2008

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Horror

Overview

Produced for Glass Eye Pix as part of their 2008 Creepy Christmas Online Film Festival, in which each short was inspired by the inhabitants of a Christmas diorama advent calendar. Each filmmaker was assigned a specific date and given the props that were used in that window to use in their short. This is the twenty-third film in the series.

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Directed by: James Felix McKenney
Written by: James Felix McKenney

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