A single mother thinks she's found the key to calming her child down – a VHS copy of a strange children's program named Mr. Crocket's World. However, a darker, bloodier secret waits to invade their home from inside the tape.
Acting
Elvis Nolasco's unhinged children's host energy—sinister smile, dead eyes.
Practical Effects
Grotesque puppet work that makes your childhood memories rot.
Direction
Espy's VHS grain aesthetic commits fully to analog dread.
Director
Brandon Espy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of the 2020s analog horror boom—Candle Cove, Local 58, and now this—mining millennial nostalgia for terror.
Expanded from Espy's 2022 short of the same name, which won Best Horror Short at several festivals. The puppet was rebuilt larger and more grotesque for the feature.
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