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It Was a Dark and Silly Night

5 Minutes or Less • 5m 21s

Directed by Steven-Charles Jaffe • 2008 • United States

Unexpected guests crash a children’s cemetery party in this humorously macabre adaptation of a Neil Gaiman story, animated in typically ghoulish style by cartoonist Gahan Wilson.

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