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This trailer for Adult Swim's 'The Shivering Truth' is the freakiest thing you'll see today

Excuse me, but what is happening to that poor man's nipples?!
This trailer for Adult Swim's 'The Shivering Truth' is the freakiest thing you'll see today

And you thought stop-motion animation was creepy on a good day.

From Robot Chicken to Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Adult Swim programming has become notorious for its cartoon insta-nightmares. Their newest series, The Shivering Truth, appears to be shepherding that legacy into a whole new league of horrifying.

Created by Vernon Chatman, an Adult Swim alumnus, the stop-motion project has been described as "a delicately crafted, surreal anthology comedy, a miniature propulsive omnibus clusterbomb of painfully riotous daymares, all dripping with the orange goo of dream logic."

What does that mean? Well, based on the trailer, we can expect a woman to have her face rubbed off onto a carpet, a drinking game involving a whole lot of fingers, a scary worm burrowing into a guy's head, a surprisingly gory game of peek-a-boo, and a whole lot of other stuff I'd rather not think about... including hand nipples.

The Shivering Truth hits Adult Swim Dec. 9 at midnight. Plan your electric bill accordingly.

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Alison Foreman is one heck of a gal. She's also a writer in Los Angeles, who used to cover movies, TV, video games, and the internet for Mashable. @alfaforeman


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