Little Man In The Fire

Adult Swim Yule Log (also titled The Fireplace) is a surreal black comedy horror film that originally aired as a special on Adult Swim on December 11, 2022. It was created, written, and directed by Casper Kelly, and produced by Williams Street. Created in secret by Kelly, the film initially presents itself as a holiday footage video of a fireplace located inside a vacation cabin, before eventually giving way to a surprise meta-horror plot occurring within the cabin, and involving the fireplace itself. Adult Swim's first horror film,

A sequel Adult Swim Yule Log 2: Branchin' Out aired on December 6, 2024.

The film begins as a static shot of a cabin fireplace with burning yule logs, accompanied by holiday music. The cabin has a dark history across the ages, including with its original occupant: an American slave owner named Isaac, who ashamedly admits to his slave, Rosa, that he did not sell Rosa's son William to a kind slave owner as he promised her, but to the cruel and sadistic Mr. Armfield to fetch a better price. Devastated, Rosa screams that William was their son and kills him with a knife. She hides the knife in the fireplace, and is later lynched at a local hanging tree.

In the present, the owner of the cabin arrives to clean it before weekend renters arrive. A masked killer "Pleatherface" and his mother, "Mother", break in, murdering her. Hearing renters Alex and Zoe arrive, they hide inside the cabin. By the fireplace, Alex proposes to Zoe, but they are interrupted by the arrival of the local sheriff, who informs them of a killer on the loose. The sheriff recognizes that the burning fireplace log was taken from the nearby hanging tree. He extinguishes the log, advises them against lighting it again, and departs.