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Category Archives: Stop Motion Animation

October 29th, 2012: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)

Leave a comment Posted in Animation, Based on a TV Show, Comedy, Family, Holiday, Horror, Movie of the Day, Stop Motion Animation, Werewolves Tagged Best Animated Film

October 14th, 2012: The Resurrected aka Shatterbrain (1992)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Detective, DTV, Gothic Horror, Horror, Independent, Mad Scientist, Monster, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Possession, Remake, Stop Motion Animation Tagged "New England", asylum, British Columbia, Chris Sarandon, Dan O'Bannon, Deep Roy, detective, diary, flashback, H.P. Lovecraft, Hartford, Jane Sibbett, John Terry, low-budget, nightmares, Rhode Island, Richard Band, Robert Romanus, the declining years, TV actors

September 23rd, 2012: Hercules (1983)

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1 Comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on Myths, Event Film, Fantasy, Movie of the Day, Robots, So-Bad-It's-Good, Stop Motion Animation, Sword and Sandals, Sword and Sorcery Tagged bad animation, bad narration, bad rear projection, bad special effects, bear, Cannon, cash-in, Classical Mythology, Drive-In, gods, Hercules, Italy, killer robots, Lou Ferigno, low-budget, Luigi Cozzi, Menahem Golan, quest, quotably bad dialogue, rip-off, Sybil Danning, terrible bear suit, Yoram Globus

June 29th, 2012: The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Short Story(ies), Black and White, Dinosaurs, Event Film, Independent, Kaiju, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, Stop Motion Animation, The Original Tagged Arctic, atomic, atomic testing, Cecil Kellaway, Coney Island, diving bell, Drive-In, Kenneth Tobey, Lee Van Cleef, New York City, radiation, Ray Bradbury, roller coaster, scientists, stock footage, Vera Miles, woman scientist with a man's first name

June 9th, 2012: A Close Shave (1995)

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Leave a comment Posted in Animation, Buddy Flick, Comedy, Family, Movie of the Day, Sequel, Short, Stop Motion Animation Tagged Aardman Animations, BBC Bristol, BBC Children's International, Best Short Film Animated, Britain, dogs, Nick Park, Peter Sallis, sheep

May 27th, 2012: Q: The Winged Serpent

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Leave a comment Posted in Addicition, Black Comedy, Cops, Crime, Cults, Heist, Horror, Independent, Kaiju, Monster, Movie of the Day, Satire, Stop Motion Animation Tagged Arkoff International, Aztecs, Candy Clark, Chrysler Building, David Carradine, diamonds, drug addict, ex-con, gods, it's not over, Larco Productions, Larry Cohen, low-budget, Michael Moriarty, museum, musical interlude, nest, New York City, Richard Rountree, Samuel Z. Arkoff, SWAT

February 20th, 2012: Coraline

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Leave a comment Posted in 3D, Adaptation, Animation, Based on a Book, Coming of Age, Fairy Tale, Family, Fantasy, Indy, Movie of the Day, Stop Motion Animation Tagged apartment, Best Animated Film Nominee, buttons, Dakota Fanning, daughter, Dawn French, don't eat anything, door to another realm, father, Focus Features, Henry Selick, Ian MacShane, Interscope Communications, Jennifer Saunders, John Hodgman, Keith David, mother, mother-daugther relationship, Neil Gaiman, Teri Hatcher, They Might Be Giants, wicked stepmother

February 11th, 2012: A Grand Day Out With Wallace and Gromit

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Leave a comment Posted in "Foreign Film", Adventure, Animation, Arthouse, Comedy, Movie of the Day, Road Trip, Robots, Sci-Fi, Short, Space Travel, Stop Motion Animation, The Original Tagged Aardman Animations, Best Short Film Animated Nominee, Britain, cheese, comedic robot, dogs, homage, inventors, John Philips Sousa, low-budget, National Film and Television School, Nick Park, Peter Sallis, rocket launch, rocket ship, Rube Goldberg devices, The Moon, Wallace and Gromit

November 28th, 2011: The Howling (1981)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Horror, Independent, Lycanthropy/Jekyll and Hyde, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Stop Motion Animation, The Original, Werewolves Tagged Avco Embassy Pictures, Belinda Balaski, Dee Wallace, Dennis Dugan, Dick Miller, Forrest J. Ackerman, Joe Dante, John Carradine, John Sayles, Jonathan Kaplan, Kenneth Tobey, Kevin McCarthy, Patrick Macnee, Rick Baker, Rob Bottin, Robert Picardo, Roger Corman, Slim Pickens

November 24th, 2011: King Kong (1933)

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1 Comment Posted in Black and White, Dinosaurs, Event Film, Giant Animals, Kaiju, Lost World, Monster, Movie of the Day, Stop Motion Animation, The Original Tagged apes, biplane, Bruce Cabot, David O. Selznick, Edgar Wallace, Empire State Building, Ernest B. Schoedsack, Fay Wray, King Kong, Max Steiner, Merian C. Cooper, National Film Registry, natives, New York City, Noble Johnson, obligatory love interest, RKO, Robert Armstrong, sacrifice, Skull Island, Willis O'Brien

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