In the sleepy, peculiar town of Hallow’s End, the dead are getting a second chance at life, but they’re not interested in brains—they just want to finish their chores. Directed by the visionary Tim Burton, this delightfully macabre animated short follows young Victor, voiced by Michael Seater, who accidentally disrupts the town’s annual “Reanimation Day.” As the deceased citizens, including the stern Mr. Thistle (Hardee T. Lineham) and the kindly Mrs. Abernathy (Brenda Bazinet), shuffle back to their homes, they are single-mindedly focused on completing the mundane tasks they left behind. Victor finds himself in a race against the sunrise, navigating a landscape filled with gardening zombies and spectral handymen, desperate to set the natural order right before the peaceful town descends into permanent, polite chaos. With a script by Seth Grahame-Smith, the film masterfully blends gothic charm with quirky humor, creating a uniquely heartwarming tale about closure, community, and the oddly comforting persistence of everyday life, even after death.