Stop Motion, for some reason everyone in the horror community is raving about this film and honestly while it is undeserving of the huge amounts of praise its receiving, it isn't a bad film, its quite good, has some excellent "Brothers Quay" inspired stop motion visuals, but that's about it. The story is pretty predictable and is your run of the mill tale of obsession and madness.
Lead actress Aisling Franciosi does a good job at portraying the spiraling artist, but she is the only person in the film that you're interested in at all, and that's a problem. The audience have to be made to care about the people who the leads descent into madness is affecting, her boyfriend played by Tom Yorke is literally every annoying boyfriend in a horror movie cliche you've seen before, he's vanilla, irritating, unsupportive and one dimensional and I frankly couldn't wait until she inevitably killed him.
The films greatest strength is it artistic visuals which are disturbing, but disturbing to a point, they don't really go anywhere, that said the film is entertaining and has a good sense of atmosphere but its also quite forgettable. It gets a 4.5 purely for Aisling's performance and the sequences involving stop motion animation, everything else is pretty pedestrian.
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