2024 · horror · supernatural
Stopmotion
Directed by Robert Morgan1h 34m2024
Ella Blake, a stop-motion animator struggling to control her demons after the loss of her overbearing mother, embarks upon the creation of a film that becomes the battleground for her sanity. As Ella’s mind starts to fracture, the characters in her project take on a life of their own.
Our read: Stopmotion (2024) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive horror · supernatural entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, extreme horror / supernatural, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- extreme
- inventive
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How Stopmotion feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want handmade-animation horror about grief warping an artist's mind.”
Skip it tonight — Unsettling puppet grotesquerie and psychological collapse are too much tonight.
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