An interpretation of the 'nonsense' poem by Edward Lear.
Deep in the forest strange creatures twitter and hum. Panic ensues when a warning cry is heard - 'The Cummerbund is come!'
'I know when the Grotlyn's been, Slipping through your house unseen...
But what at first we think to be, The eye does blindly make us see!'
This animated verse delves into the begrimed corners of a Victorian city and discovers the infamy of its protagonist to be anything but malicious.
A plucky recruit is beckoned to town by the promise of opportunity, but he first must acquire the proper attire.
His endeavours are met with a curious blend of diversion and trickery.
The kelpie is a legendary beast from Scottish mythology that, in the guise of a horse, drags unwary people to their death in the loch.
Ewan is a young boy in the Highlands who decides to vanquish the kelpie, in a terrifying encounter that challenges his resolve.
Manchester is torn apart as a vigilante known only as The Boxer bludgeons through the city's criminal element, leaving a trail of broken bodies in his wake. An army of drug addicts, under the messianic leadership of The Needler, terrorises the city. The police are powerless to stop them.
The line between good and evil blurs into one as both factions battle for the soul of the city in this cutting-edge mix of live action and animation.
Set in a 19th-century European village, this stop-motion, animated feature follows the story of Victor, a young man who is whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious Corpse Bride, while his real bride, Victoria, waits bereft in the land of the living. Though life in the Land of the Dead proves to be a lot more colourful than his strict Victorian upbringing, Victor learns that there is nothing in this world, or the next, that can keep him away from his one true love. It’s a tale of optimism, romance and a very lively afterlife, told in classic Tim Burton style.
It's ‘vege-mania’ in Wallace and Gromit’s neighbourhood and our intrepid chums are cashing in as elite pest-control duo Anti-pesto. With only days to go before the annual Giant Vegetable Competition, business is booming!
But running a 'humane' pest control outfit has its drawbacks. Wallace and Gromit's home is brimful of captive bunnies and Gromit's daily task of feeding the ever-expanding population is second only to his job of feeding his master: with all their recent success, Wallace has been over-indulging in his beloved cheese and Gromit is struggling to keep him on a strict vegetable diet. True to form, Wallace resorts to technology to cure all his problems with 'the Mind-manipulation-o-matic', a simple brain-altering device.
All is well until an unexplained, nocturnal, veg-ravaging rabbit monster begins attacking the town's sacred vegetable plots. Soon the townsfolk are in uproar and the fate of the competition lies in the balance, until beautiful heiress and vegetable competition hostess Lady Tottington, impressed with Wallace’s humane methods, commissions Anti-pesto to apprehend the beast and save the day. Wallace's aspirations rise - this is just the sort of client he's dreamed of.
More than 3,000 insects appear in this film each for a single frame. As the colours glow and change across their bodies and wings it is as if the genetic programme of millions of years is taking place in a few minutes. It is a rampant creation that seems to defy the explanations of evolutionists and fundamentalists. It is like a mescalin dream of Charles Darwin's.
Portraying the birth of a violent and tragic existence, this film is an iconographic tale of suburban horror humorously expressed in dark, crude elegance.
'Once there was a baby that made those around him hate.'
