{"id":820229,"date":"2026-10-31T23:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T23:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/820229\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T23:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T23:40:09","slug":"get-your-ugly-cute-fill-with-this-horror-comedy-short-from-harry-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/820229\/","title":{"rendered":"Get your ugly-cute fill with this horror-comedy short from Harry Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The blending of comedy and horror can be a tricky thing. (If you\u2019d like a much\u00a0more detailed, and thoughtful, dissection of those difficulties, may we direct you to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/horror-comedy-widows-bay-katie-dippold\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this new essay from A.V. Club\u00a0TV Editor Erik Adams?<\/a>) But one quick avenue to discovering that intersection can come from making something that is both very ugly and, at least hypothetically, cute\u2014something that recently posted horror-omedy short \u201cThe Jillon\u201d proves from about the second its title character shows up on screen.<\/p>\n<p>Posted online two days ago by its writer, Harry Hill\u2014a veteran British comedy writer with a bold and subversive taste for the absurd\u2014the short was directed by Arthur Studholme, and features performances from Flip Webster and Richard Syms as an elderly couple who want a baby, with Richard Ayoade as the narrator\/person a lot of the people watching the short have probably at least actually heard of. But what it mostly\u00a0features is The Jillon, which you can see in the above header image, unless we chickened out out of putting it front-and-center on our web site, and which is kind of what a baby would look like if it was designed by someone who doesn\u2019t like babies very much.<\/p>\n<p>With a surprisingly slow-burn beginning, the short is sweeter than it is horrific\u2014but not, y\u2019know,\u00a0entirely. If nothing else, it\u2019s a pleasantly unsettling way to spend 15 minutes on a Halloween afternoon while you\u2019re waiting for the candy-hungry hordes to show up, and might even impart a few nice lessons about parenthood, and the terrible things that can happen to those who seek it, in the process.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The blending of comedy and horror can be a tricky thing. (If you\u2019d like a much\u00a0more detailed, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-820229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}