From the brilliant Aardman and four-time Academy Award®-winning director Nick Park and Emmy Award-nominated Merlin Crossingham comes Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl. In this next installment, Gromit’s concern that Wallace is becoming too dependent on his inventions proves justified, when Wallace invents a “smart” gnome that seems to develop a mind of its own. When it emerges that a vengeful figure from the past might be masterminding things, it falls to Gromit to battle sinister forces and save his master… or Wallace may never be able to invent again!
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Kate Bush finds HOPE in dark times
CREDITS:
Written and directed by Kate Bush
Animation Co : Inkubus
Production Co: Tomato Twist
Animation producer: Gayle Martin
Animation compositor: Lorenzo Cenci Di Bello
Little Shrew animation: Nicolette Van Gendt
Hope and drone animation: James Gifford
Concept artwork: Jim Kay
Little Shrew Rendering: Alan Henry
Background artwork: Nicolas Loudot
Still photo: Maksim Levin
Lead vocal: Albert McIntosh
Piano: Kate Bush
Orchestration: Jonathan Tunick
Guitars: Dan McIntosh
Drums and percussion: Steve Gadd
Atmospheric SFX : Jon Carin
1978’s “Watership Down” – the film that frightened me the most
Ever since the Forrest family pet unexpectedly entered the food chain in Fatal Attraction, and Frank the mercury-faced leporid walked into Donnie Darko’s waking dreams, rabbits have been officially nibbling around the edges of the horror genre. Right now, they’re at 46th place in the freakiness rankings, sandwiched between abandoned rocking chairs and wind-up music boxes (well below the likes of staring twins and evil clowns). But if there was a moment when the placid little critters first extended their range beyond merely cute, I like to think I was there, and wailing in raw, unfiltered, primal terror.
That reaction was probably wasn’t what Richard Adams had in mind when he wrote Watership Down in 1972, his homily to the timeless rhythms of rural England. I doubt Martin Rosen and John Hubley, directors of the 1978 film version, wanted to scare the bejesus out of their young audience either. But one small section – the apocalyptic vision that leads skittish rabbit seer Fiver to encourage his warren mates to abandon their burrows – was far too vivid. Fiver sniffs around, a whisper of terror in the air: a fencepost rears up like a gallows; a cigarette singes the lush green. Then he sees it: blood blotting a vast field, threatening to engulf them all. Skeletal tree outlines crack like veins through the insanguinated sods. Their branches twist and undulate with queasy malice [ . . . ]
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