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The imagery is impressive and unusual at the same time,
blending together stop motion animation, creature effects, animated drawings,
and live human characters. It has a sepia tone that is reminiscent of the
silent era of cinema, evoking memories of when they would tint the film in dye in
order to stain it a different color other than white. There are also additional
creative techniques used from that bygone era, such as double exposing the film
and adding distortions to it. It is also blurred and further altered to make it
look like there is a great deal of dust and fragments on the actual film. All
of this leads to something that looks like it was made during the 1920’s or
earlier, rather than 2003.
The stop motion animation is a combination of wires, animal
bones, cardboard, and other things that aren’t easily identifiable. These
creatures are quite odd and disturbing. The animated drawings are stunning and
nicely done. They also did a fine job of inserting the life size actors within
the world of the stop motion animation, making them seem like they belonged and
weren’t out of place.
The sound is an ambient mix of piercing noises, trying to
meld with the mechanical world that has been created. There is virtually no
dialogue, just a minimal amount used to try and further the story. Combined
with the heavy editing, it produces more of an experimental movie than a
coherent plot.
It’s hard to really determine who the right audience for
this is. There are mild elements of gore and it’s being distributed by a
company that specializes in horror and gore, yet it definitely does not fit
within the horror genre. It is more avant garde and surrealistic than anything
else, so viewers that are interested in those types of motion pictures would be
intrigued by this.
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| WTF am I watching ? |
It gets high marks for daring to produce something
different, but fails to provide the viewer with a fully coherent story.
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