Too Late
2020 · 5m · Canada
Directed by Roy Stein
Genres: animation, horror, thriller
Tones: contemplative, dark, melancholic
Deep in the small hours, a lonely man's sanity slips away — a CGI psychological thriller about overwork as civilizational horror.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
The premise is 'overwork is actually a horror film' — not metaphorically, just literally — and it has the nocturnal CGI dread to back that claim up completely.
Overwork-as-civilizational-horror in CGI psychological-thriller register is a fine premise — Twilight Zone / Cunningham comparisons are aspirational but the impulse to treat office-life as straight horror rather than satire is the right inversion.
Five minutes of CGI overwork-as-cosmic-horror with Roy Stein as writer/director/composer — solo authorship and multiple Best Animation festival wins. The Twilight Zone bones are visible but it's a clean execution.