Dagmar Stribrna,
Jan Hartl,
Jaroslava Kretschmerova,
Kristina Adamcova,
Pavel Novy
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Mr. and Mrs. Horak long for a baby. While digging in the garden one day, Mrs Horak pulls up a tree-stump that looks very much like a small child, and after some minor work in the tool shed, she brings...( read more
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DVD Release Date: January 21, 2003
Stats: 365 reviews
Little Shop of Horrors, with a Czech twist. An off-beat (to say the least) rendering of a fanciful fairy tale. Consider this a rave review for a ravenous root. :)
Little Otik is one strange film, conceived and executed with some really fun stop-motion effects. The strongest section of the film has a psychological intensity that builds horrifically.
Jan Svankmajer's Little Otik, like Eraserhead, is one of those indescribable films that...( read more)
Dark Czech fairy tale about a couple who long for a child so much that they go crazy and produce a monster. It would be a disturbing horror movie if not for the comical stop-motion animation. Not very engrossing.
Based on a Scandanavian children's story, but more Roald Dahl than Dr. Seuss. Kinda comedic, but in a twisted way. A strange story about a log of wood that the infertile "parents" treat as a real child. It eventually comes alive and eats all the neighbors, getting larger with eac...( read more)
One of the best films I've seen in a while. And definitely one of the strangest. Very funny, you just want to see more of the couple's life and you keep asking yourself, how long can this go on? It's madness.
I will never think of pregnancy the same way again.
I love to read...( read more)
Otesnek, also known as Little Otik or Greedy Guts, is a 2000 surrealist film by Czech couple Jan vankmajer and Eva vankmajerov. The movie is a comedic live action, stop motion-animated feature film set mainly in a poor apartment building in the Czech Republic. Yes Bizarre is the ...( read more)
PAN AND SCAN. Las animaciones son cool, pero todo lo demás es irritante, pretencioso y tedioso. Peor, parece no acabar nunca. / The animations are cool, but the rest is irritating, pretentious and tedious. Worse, it seems to never end.
127 minutes is a lot of time for a simple movie with one satirical point to make and one animated character to show. full review
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