With: Voices: Aure Atika, Arthur H, Guillaume Depardieu, Nicole Garcia, Louisa Pili, Gil Alma, Francois Creton, Sarah-Laure Estragnat, Nicolas Feroumont, Christian Hecq, Christian Hincker, Lino Hincker, Melaura Honnay, Amelie Lerma, Florence Maury, Adriana Piasek-Wanski, Amaury Smets, Brigitte Sy, Laurent Van Der Rest, Charlotte Vermeil, Andreas Vuillet. Six graphic artists present their visions of terror in “Fear(s) of The Dark,” an omnibus of black-and-white animation with a couple exceptionally clever episodes tied together by an unnecessary recurring monologue. While the segments generate about as much genuine fear as a Charles Addams cartoon, each displays a fertile imagination influenced by a breathtaking range of sources, from Japanese anime (in the case of Marie Caillou) to Felix Vallotton (Richard McGuire). Prospects are best at home, but cult status could accrue abroad, especially on ancillary. Reportbuilder Enterprise Professional V14 07 D7 Xe Xe2 Xe3.
Back in February 2006, I wrote about an intriguing French animated feature Peur(s) du Noir (Fears of the Dark), which is a black-and-white anthology of scary stories. Play the free Uncle Grandpa game Afraid of the Dark and other Uncle Grandpa games at Cartoon Network.
Pic is the brainchild of maverick graphic design gallery/studio Prima Linea, produced by the same team as last year’s animated fairy tale “U.” Using both 2-D and 3-D animation, all in rich black-and-white with subtle color tonalities, “Fear(s)” opens with a skeletal 18th-century marquis and his hounds of hell, beautifully drawn by Blutch with a deeply textured mass of nervous strokes and shadings that lend the tale a pulsating air. More Reviews Phantasmagoric episode is split into sections that are sandwiched between the others, like the monologue. Latter is accompanied by Pierre di Sciullo’s geometric patterns and voiced by Nicole Garcia as she breathlessly recites everything she’s frightened of, from eating worms to being “irredeemably bourgeois.” Charles Burns’ solidly drawn segment, with an animation style deliberately stiff in movement, is the most story-driven of the six, recounting the disturbing tale of an insect lodging itself in the body of Laura (Aure Atika), who then goes on to brutalize her b.f., Eric (Guillaume Depardieu). Prototype 1 Pc Rip. Lorenzo Mattotti’s creepy story displays impressive draftsmanship, while Caillou’s Japanese tale, about a girl (Louisa Pili) haunted by a samurai ghost, plays like a cross between Tarantino-esque bloodlust and a “South Park” episode. Best of all is McGuire’s extraordinary use of blackouts and patterns, injecting originality not just into the old haunted-house formula, but also animation style. A solitary candle illuminates details of a face against an entire screen of black, and a woman in a floral-print dress puts a spider into a pot of tea. A brilliant sequence of a man smothering flaming pages scattered from the fireplace is especially inspired.
