Friday, October 4, 2024

31 Days of 2024 Horror - Day 4 - Stopmotion (2024)

  I wish this movie lived up to its visuals.  Content warning:  some body horror, dead animal (fox)

Ellie (Aisling Franciosi) loves making stop motion animation but struggles coming out of the shadow of her famous mother (Stella Gonet).  Especially when her creations seem to have a mind of their own.

I'm so disappointed.  This movie had nothing to say except the same old cliches about creation as birth, destruction of the artist, and even inner child creativity.  Just lame, navel-gazing pretension masquerading as horror.  

And the visuals were so good!  Weird little things made of mortician's wax and roadkill!  Ventriloquist dolls!  A little girl singing creepy songs in a stairwell!  Just let down by a script aspiring to mediocrity and coming up short.

It's streaming on Shudder.

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