A 12-minute fever dream where your childhood monsters are fabulous, French, and absolutely judging your taste in pajamas.
Mortel has always been afraid of the monsters that hide under the bed. Because they're weird, eccentric, not like the others. But one day, he decides to face his fear for the first time, to look under the bed and discover the monstrous world.
Costume
Monster designs serving lewks, not scares
Production
Micro-budget maximalism in 12 minutes
Writing
Dialogue that treats eccentricity as birthright
Director
Hélios Tovondahy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a wave of French queer short filmmaking using genre tropes to explore identity without explicit labels.
Tovondahy reportedly cast from Paris drag scene rather than traditional acting pools, explaining the authentic 'found family' chemistry.
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