Ghost Dogs
2021 · 11m · USA
Directed by Joe Cappa
Tones: dark, melancholic, tender
When a family adopts a rescue dog, it discovers the house is populated by spirits of every pet the family has ever loved.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
A rescue pup finds the house haunted by every dead pet the family has loved — that's a Vimeo Staff Pick Premiere, Sundance-festooned, 172K-view animated horror about grief through dogs. I'd normally roll my eyes but Cappa's economy is real.
Hand-drawn horror about a haunted rescue-dog house is structurally clever — every household with a pet history becomes its own ghost story — and a Vimeo Staff Pick Premiere with Sundance pedigree confirms the execution. Genuinely effective.
10:39, 172K views, 1,027 likes, Sundance, Vimeo Staff Pick Premiere — Joe Cappa took rescue-dog-discovers-haunted-house and made horror animation with real form. The Staff Pick blog confirms this is a tight piece of mind-bending genre animation.
Festivals
- Sundance Film Festival 2021
- Fantasia Film Festival 2021, Satoshi Kon Award