Diary entries forStopmotion
Stopmotion
I'm pretty sure this is how phil tippett made mad god
Stopmotion
We're in the middle of an absolutely delightful 365 day period of chilling sound-design work including releases like this, Zone of Interest, and Huesera: The Bone Woman. Definitely shouldn't go unnoticed or underappreciated
Stopmotion
“You’re some artistic genius animating a steak and a dead fox.” - The Stop motion animations in this were real cool. - Decent into madness. - Gore was nicely done. - I like the use of the colour green in this, I’m slowly learning more about colours in films.
Stopmotion
Unsettling. Great sound design. Interesting ideas. Not sure it all works, but if you let it all wash over you and give yourself to the film, I think you’ll dig it. 2024 Ranked (https://boxd.it/rJ4dW)
Stopmotion
Stopmotion marks Robert Morgan’s return to the screen, for his very first feature length film, in nearly a decade after his part in the anthology film The ABCs of Death 2. While I may not be overly familiar with Morgan and his work, simply by looking through his list of shorts in Letterboxd you can clearly see a passion for the art of stopmotion animation (and its all rather creepy looking too). With Stopmotion he manages to not only create an interesting premise surrounding a stopmotion animator living in the shadow of her mother, he also delivers some truly stomach wrenching horror utilizing said animation. The sound design is also a standout here and really manages to drown you in this eerie and deeply uncomfortable atmosphere. The actual stopmotion itself is fantastic, reminding me a lot of Phil Tippett’s MAD GOD at times, and does most of the heavy lifting in the horror sequences. While the film does play into some generic horror tropes, it very quickly becomes a highly surreal mood piece as it goes on. Overall, I think there is a lot more to love here than dislike, but there were some things in the film that did pull me away at times. For one, I think some of the editing feels choppy, which I do find surprising seeing as I found the pacing of the film to be a tad on the slower side. The acting was also not the best, but definitely not the worst, which is high praise as so many horror films have truly terrible acting. Clocking in at a brisk 93 minutes, Stopmotion is a film I’d recommend for anyone looking for a new horror film to watch in 2024 - I don’t think you’ll be disappointed.
Stopmotion
this is what i mean when i say i'm just a girl
Stopmotion
“𝘐𝘵’𝘴 𝘢 𝘸𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘶𝘮, 𝘪𝘴𝘯’𝘵 𝘪𝘵? 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦?” “𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘸𝘯?” Creator and creation. Devastation and delirium. All about the process. What does one do with so much hurt and loss, and move it all forward through their work, while still vivid ponderings of one past haunts? Definitely stilts itself because it is a debut with a hollowness, much like puppetry, in all of its characters, but where the film really shines through is with the director’s use of stop motion. The director’s stop motion shorts actually derive from a stronger brutal horror, one more sustained in the grotesque and the back alleys of the subconscious. But for him to move out of that into filmmaking takes more effort. There’s a lot of promise here as the director’s imagination is spellbinding, powerful, and at times actually horrific, but a director I’ll be looking out in future projects.
Stopmotion
Que viva el stop motion y el horror!
