Zombie Time
2018 · 6m · Spain
Directed by Alfonso Fulgencio
Two zombies, one fate — an animated horror short following a pair of the undead toward their shared destiny.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Two zombies shuffling toward inevitable doom sounds like every other undead trudge, but Fulgencio's doing something genuinely weird with the formula—the surreal animation and the fatalistic pairing suggest he's less interested in scares than in existential dread, which is exactly the kind of subversive move that makes horror feel alive again.
The formal restraint here—six minutes of animation that resists the genre's typical grotesquerie in favor of something more meditative—places it squarely in that lineage of art-horror that prizes composition and mood over spectacle, and the considered pacing suggests a filmmaker aware of what animated horror can achieve when it trusts silence.
The decision to animate two characters toward a shared fate rather than pit them against survival creates an unexpected emotional weight; it's a small narrative choice that completely reframes what zombie cinema usually asks of its subjects, and that kind of tonal recalibration is what separates a one-note premise from something that actually stays with you.