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The opening title card of this movie already says it best: "Black
Shuck is the name given to a ghostly black dog in British folklore. Legend
says that whoever encounters the creature will suffer terrible misfortune
and death." Now the Black Shuck of this story is especially vicious
as it attacks a church during mass, killing lots of people. However the
local priest manages to chain it, and believing in the good of all of
God's creatures tries to tame it. But does a Black Shuck want to be tamed? A
wonderful stop motion short that takes a piece of folklore - and tells it
in the most grotesque and gruesome way possible. And really the stop
motion approach lends itself remarkably well to that as it at the same
time looks slightly old-fashioned (in comparison to today's CGI overkill
that is) but puts no actual boundaries on the filmmaker's imagination -
and director Rahel Kapsaski really has a field day here, not so much by
just going all-out gruesome but by turning the macabre factor up to 11 and
creating a proper atmospher of doom throughout, making this a real delight
for fans of unusual horror.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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Robots and rats,
demons and potholes, cuddly toys and shopping mall Santas,
love and death and everything in between,
Tales to Chill Your Bones to is all of that.
Tales to Chill Your Bones to -
a collection of short stories and mini-plays ranging from the horrific to the darkly humourous,
from the post-apocalyptic to the weirdly romantic,
tales that will give you a chill and maybe a chuckle,
all thought up by the twisted mind of screenwriter and film reviewer Michael Haberfelner.
Tales to Chill Your Bones to
the new anthology by Michael Haberfelner
Out now from Amazon!!! |
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