While there are plenty of lighthearted stop-motion films like Wallace and Gromit , stop-motion clearly has an appeal for the horror crowd. Puppets have traditionally been used to simulate life. That simulation occurs in theater, where puppets are perhaps most commonly used today, or even in certain religious practices like the Indonesian TauTau Puppets, where they literally represent the deceased.
Stop-motion is simply an evolution to puppetry, eliminating the presence of the puppeteer. Unfortunately, that also makes the puppet appear autonomous, maybe even haunted. It's so well made that I thought it was computer animated at first. Also it's not your silly typical kids movie which is what it seems like from the previews I do however agree with you that gumby is a really creepy show but don't let it ruin stop-motion films for you.
Are You Normal? Is it normal to think claymation is creepy? Is It Normal? Help us keep this site organized and clean. Comments 15 Sort: best oldest. Comment Hidden show. I dont have a fear, but I totally understand what youre saying. I don't have that fear either, but I find claymation very unappealing and weird to watch. I see that. Give them a chance. Not that The Nightmare Before Christmas or Frankenweenie are particularly frightful, except perhaps to the very young. But their celebration of the spooky thrills of respectively Halloween and old monster movies, their love of grotesquerie and gleeful subversiveness that is not really so subversive at all, tells the same tale as our love of stories that actually scare us.
Nightmare is a riff on the cheery old stop-motion TV holiday specials like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer — but it subverts them only to affirm them. Corpse Bride is a more morbid, mature tale, based on a Jewish-Russian folk tale about a young groom-to-be who playfully rehearses his marriage vows on the road, placing the ring on a branchlike skeletal finger protruding from the earth.
To his horror the hand rises from the earth followed by a cadaverous bride murdered en route to her own wedding, proclaiming him her husband. Frightening is a word for it. Stage Fright tells the story of changing times. In this story, the world is discovering film, which is exciting for audiences, but a tough transition for actors and actresses. Eventually, the mean film man gets what he deserves at the hands paws of the wiener dogs and justice is served, in a really weird way.
Mel Hall is a writer, blogger, and lover of all things film, television, and theater. When Mel isn't in a theater watching the latest blockbuster or binging the newest hit streaming series from the comfort of their own home, they can be found reading a good book, knowing Hollywood will eventually and inevitably turn into a film or a limited series.
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