While there are plenty of Rick and Morty spin-off shorts, animator Lee Hardcastle specializes in claymation, the stop-motion animation technique that uses plastiline models to bring characters to life. Besides their usual exploits in the world of advertisement, Rick and Morty also have 5 brief anime-style in Japanese or the Vindicators 2 spin-off, there are also the lesser known clips made by Hardcastle honoring classic movies such as Alien, Pulp Fiction or Blade Runner, all which rarely run for more than 20 seconds.

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This time around, ComicBook.com reports Hardcastle appears to have been given some extra playing room by Adult Swim, as “Summer’s Sleepover” will be a fully original claymation production that will premiere on October 30, on the artist’s own YouTube channel, with Adult Swim’s own description for the Halloween special reading: “An unexpected guest livens up Summer’s sleepover party in this trippy horror short from Claymation filmmaker Lee Hardcastle.” In the meantime, those curious about Hardcastle’s work would do well to check out his own compilation of work with Rick and Morty.

Hardcastle became famous for his spectacular claymation work thanks to the film The ABCs of Death, as well as a strange combination of John Carpenter’s The Thing with Pingu of all things, in the viral YouTube video Pingu’s The Thing. Naturally, his many tributes put a lot of focus on sci-fi, but also the horror genre, a niche into which Rick and Morty has only recently ventured to.

Season 6’s “Night Family” was Rick and Morty’s most horrific episode so far, with Summer being the star of a show drawing heavily from Jordan Peele’s Us, in a unique entry that was very well received by fans. Judging from the title, “Summer’s Sleepover” could very well be another chance for her to steal the spotlight, even if the claymation webisodes are part of the show’s non-canonical adventures.

Rick and Morty took a break after episode 6 of its current season, but things will go back to normal when the series returns on November 20. Although fans shouldn’t be shocked as last year a similar cutoff also took place, at least they’re getting proper Halloween continent and can find plenty of alternative Rick and Morty entertainment readily available.

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