Heebee Jeebees

In the dusty, high-stakes playground of 1927, Heebee Jeebees presents a surrealist descent into childhood anarchy. When a traveling hypnotist arrives in the neighborhood, the local gang—a ragtag assembly of the era's most iconic child stars—becomes the subject of a psychological experiment that strips away their human veneer. Under a trance, the children adopt animalistic personas, devolving into a pack of snarling, scratching, and sniffing creatures. The spell seemingly breaks, restoring order to their small world, but the subconscious is a fickle thing. During an exceptionally stiff and formal afternoon tea social, a setting designed to highlight the 'civilized' progress of these youngsters, the hypnotic suggestion resurfaces with a vengeance. What follows is a systematic dismantling of social decorum as the animalistic 'heebee jeebees' return, transforming a polite gathering into a chaotic, primitive riot that mocks the very idea of domestic refinement.