if you want to waste an hour and thirty minutes of your time, this movie is for you.

very nice movie

I am a horror fan who watches every single thing. Good, bad, or otherwise. And this was the best creep factor film I have seen in years. Mostly because I know that many people have problems with dolls, puppets, and similar items. And the stop motion creatures/dolls are on the edge of the uncanny valley the whole film. To wonder if they are actually moving on their own (later in the film) or if it's the mental break down of our main character is hard to decipher. Trying to, as well, decide who the young girl is...also a mystery. Does she represent our main character's locked up youth and imagination, that never had a chance to thrive under her mother's reign? Or is she some other entity completely, something that came with the building...who knows? I'm unaware how lucrative or wanted the stop motion art is in today's world. With CGI and computers taking over everything, and making it possible to create the look of stop motion without all of the hard work. But if I had put hours and hours into building sets and then moving armitures millimeter by millimeter. And then found out my boyfriend's sister stole my whole story out from under me with an expensive studio with all sorts of staff to finish it being ever could. Well ...if I didn't go a little nuts, I might kill her. So, (spoiler) death rather deserved there. It is fully a psychological horror. Don't watch looking for jump scares or buckets of blood. This is just cringey and creepy and you honestly feel like your skin is crawling "just a little bit". And for once, it isn't a copy and paste or reboot of the same thing. I don't know where this came from (book or graphic novel???) but chef's kiss sir or madam!

Lately I've heard about this movie multiple times and I was pretty excited to see the result. The premise seemed interesting and I heard that the effects are good, which both turned out to be true. You have a unique premise for the movie that makes it stand out from all the other horror movies that are dumped out nowadays. The effects and especially the gore were also pretty great and had a gritty feeling to it which complemented the movie. However I feel like this could have been so much more and I was a little let down after I finished watching. The movie has pacing issues and it tries to be way too artsy and pretentious instead of just focusing on its strengths. It's a decent flick but I was hoping for something special and great. [5,7/10]

While not a terrible film, it's too sparse in its storytelling. The entire experience can be summed up in one sentence: "An animator loses her grip on reality and descends into hallucinatory madness and self-destruction." That's basically the entire "plot" of the story. This visuals are essentially a collection of other artist's influences rolled into 90 rather tedious minutes. Obvious elements of The Brothers Quay (grotesque faces and bodies), Jan Svankmajer (using meat as a medium), and David Lynch (mainly his art projects) were clearly used. Many films have documented a character losing their mind, and this film doesn't break any new ground in that arena. "Repulsion", "Censor", "Possum", and "Jacob's Ladder" (just to name a few) are far more compelling at depicting mental breakdowns while also containing an interesting story. Ultimately the film is watchable and will probably be enjoyed by those with very limited film experience.

I can imagine that creating a stop motion animation is a very slow and tedious process, but an ultimately rewarding one. I wish the same could be said of this film, which is certainly slow and tedious, but doesn't satisfy as a whole. Aisling Franciosi plays Ella, daughter of famous animator Suzanne Blake (Stella Gonet); together, they are attempting to complete a stop-motion movie, but the project comes to a halt when Suzanne suffers a stroke. Compelled to complete her overbearing mother's film, Ella hides herself away in a vacant tower block and sets to work, but eventually decides to make her own movie. Struggling for inspiration, Ella takes advice from a young girl (Caoilinn Springall) who plays in the building, and together they create the bizarre story of a young girl terrorised by a figure called The Ash Man. However, as time goes by, Ella loses her grip on reality... Roman Polanski did the whole 'psychotic breakdown' thing so much better nearly sixty years ago with Repulsion; Stopmotion's director, Robert Morgan, does nothing new with the idea, making his film a rather redundant exercise. The freaky animation lends a certain sense of style to proceedings, but Ella's gradual decline is predictable and, for the most part, told in a lethargic, uninteresting fashion. The final act picks up the pace a tad and throws in a smidge of gore, but this only serves to emphasise just how deathly dull the rest of the film is.

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