A man is unpacking his childhood stuff and finds a purple man made of paper and to be duct taped to the wall, unknowingly this will become a nightmare.
Practical Effects
Paper puppet that somehow feels alive.
Direction
Spence/White squeeze dread into 240 seconds.
Editing
Final cut lands like a gut punch.
Director
Todd Spence
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mikus was created from actual childhood drawings by co-director Zak White, making the puppet literally born from buried memory.
The film channels 2010s internet horror like Local58 and Petscop—short-form dread designed for rewatches and frame analysis.
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