This Twisted Agency Video Imagines If Trees Chopped and Decorated Humans for Christmas

Anomaly London continues its tradition of dark holiday tales

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If you think your holiday season is stressful, just be glad you haven’t been kidnapped by a family of trees, covered in decorations and put on display in their living room—with your feet chopped off so you can’t escape.

That fate befalls a bunch of suburban dudes in “O Human Being,” an outrageously dark-humored (and largely NSFW) animated holiday offering from Anomaly London and Unreasonable Studios.

Richard E. Grant—a character actor whom advertising nerds might remember from starring in 1989’s bizarre British film How to Get Ahead in Advertising—relates the story as “Peter,” one of the unfortunate captives, who sums up his situation thusly: “The whole situation is entirely fucked! I plead for my life.

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