Produced for Glass Eye Pix as part of their 2008 Creepy Christmas Online Film Festival, in which each short was inspired by the inhabitants of a Christmas diorama advent calendar. Each filmmaker was assigned a specific date and given the props that were used in that window to use in their short. This is the twenty-fourth film in the series.
Ella Walsh
Little Red Haired Girl
Eggy Godlee
Boy with Box of Teeth
Olive Godlee
Girl with Skull Doll
Ruby Walsh
Girl with Jar of Limbs
The Night Before Christmas is a fantasy, horror film released in 2008. Directed by Mary Harron, it stars Ella Walsh, Eggy Godlee, Olive Godlee. Produced for Glass Eye Pix as part of their 2008 Creepy Christmas Online Film Festival, in which each short was inspired by the inhabitants of a Christmas diorama advent calendar. Each filmmaker was assigned a specific date and given the props that were used in that window to use in their short. This is the twenty-fourth film in the series.
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