The Hug

I recently watched The Hug (2018) on Hulu. The story takes place at a Chuck E. Cheese-style kids' party and play area, where a spoiled young boy named Aden wanders off alone and encounters an animatronic that just wants a hug...

Co-directed and co-written by Jack Bishop and Justin Nijm (Stan Against Evil), the short film stars Roman Dean George (The Door in the Woods), Nick Armstrong (Bulldozer), Peyton Noga (The Goldfinch), and Circus-Szalewski (Babylon).

At just five minutes long, this short is brilliantly crafted. The setting, costumes, and atmosphere perfectly establish the tone. The animatronic is impressively designed, and the cinematography is sharp and high quality. The film delivers exactly what you'd hope for given its setting and premise, packing plenty of fun into its brief runtime.

In conclusion, The Hug is an outstanding short horror film that's absolutely worth a watch. I'd rate it 8/10 and strongly recommend it.

Thanks to the game series Five Nights at Freddy's (which I never played), it seems that now everything to related with animatronics must be something horror-related.

Derivative premise aside, this was effectively creepy, even if you can see the "twist" coming from a mile away.

I'm not really sure of how this would work as a full-lenght feature film.

I only watched this because the banner on Hulu showed what was clearly a Billy Bob animatronic mask from Showbiz Pizza, poorly spray painted to look somewhat like a panda. And that's about as far as the value of this thing goes. It's clearly just trying to bank off of the popularity Five Nights at Freddy's had for like 2 years and was made way too late, but I really love the homages to Showbiz, with even the logo for the pizza place being a bit too spot-on to the Showbiz Pizza logo. I just wish there was more passion in it than that. VERY cheap, and with delightfully campy acting.

It's a little bit scary for me.but the show and all the stuff you used and did to make it is amazing .scary thoe.

As a shameless ripoff of the videogame franchise that burned itself out within 2 years, this is actually pretty damn good. There are visuals that still haunt me weeks later. Unfortunately, it needs to be a full movie. It'll leave you wanting so much more.