Your childhood teddy bear just grew ten feet and wants answers.
Haunted by his past, Connell returns to his abandoned childhood home. Inside, he awakens Pluto, a towering anthropomorphic teddy bear tied to his buried memories and unresolved trauma. As Pluto pursues him through the house, Connell is forced to confront a series of nightmarish visions from his childhood - bringing him closer to the guilt that has consumed him his entire life. Equal parts haunting and redemptive, this story explores the weight of grief and the courage it takes to confront our deepest wounds.
Practical Effects
Pluto puppet is genuinely terrifying practical work
Direction
Martin squeezes feature-length dread into 19 minutes
Sound
Voice design blurs childlike and monstrous perfectly
Director
Daniel L. Martin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title's astronomical pun—Pluto as both demoted planet and forgotten childhood object—mirrors how we downgrade grief to 'not a real planet' status until it demands recognition.
Aidan Rivers pulls triple duty as lead, voice of Pluto, and likely co-creator given the project's NFT-adjacent crowdfunding origins noted in keywords. The bear's physical performance by Jason Hogan creates a disorienting 'two actors, one trauma' effect.
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