SpunkySelfTwitter It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

webcrind This is an absolutely stunning-to-watch and well crafted animation. I was so intrigued by how it was done, I had to watch it again just to follow the story, never mind the incredible music by Tool ( song is from "10,000 Days"). This show reminded me of watching the Wizard of Oz, muted, while listening simultaneously to Pink Floyd's Dark side of the Moon. Fantastic!

Mattquatch This is honestly the single worst movie I have ever seen. The "brilliant" minds behind it are the hipster's Tim Burton. The level of disturbing is incomparable to even Human Centipede. The "explanation" at the end was not enough to justify the complete lack of tangible story. While I will admit the set pieces were amazing (sort of like I-Spy on meth), even that was not enough to rescue this shipwreck of a short film.In short, I despised nearly everything about this movie. It was the worst $5 I have ever spent on anything (and I've bought some dumb stuff in my day).

Eumenides_0 The Quay brothers can become repetitive quickly. This is their fourth movie I've watched, and although I can never deny the quality of their craft, it just seems the same over and over. They clearly have their leitmotifs: disfigured dolls, dusty sets, ancient, incomprehensible machinery, infinite drawers, lifeless objects coming to life.I wonder if I could have enjoyed - or even understood - this movie better if I had read Bruno Schulz' book first. The movie makes little sense: a doll enters a subterranean world of dark shops, inhabited by creepy dolls. That's pretty much what I can make of it. In one of my favorite sequences, nails come alive, unscrew themselves and start moving as if they were insects. It's fascinating, but in the end this is the only appeal of the movie: a journey through dark, surreal imagery for its own sake.Like the other Quay movies I've seen, I admire the talent that went into making this movie. Stop-motion must be one of the hardest things to accomplish in cinema, let alone make it so perfect and complex as the Quays do. I just wish they enjoyed narrative a little bit more.

bob the moo Although the imagery is familiar, I'm pretty sure that this was the first film from the Quay Brothers that I had seen and this is why I think it will stick with me. I will not pretend to understand the full commentary or relevance of it but the end titles do help with the portrayal of a soulless world and its outcome. What the makers have succeed in is creating a crushingly animated world where even the puppet freed from his strings comes to misfortune and perhaps looks back to wish he had never been able to break free from his mechanised controls/shackles.This seems to be the thrust of it from what I can understand and in this regard I found it darkly satisfying and disturbing. With the theme in the background the foreground gets filled with disturbing images of decaying machinery and puppet figures, the doll-headed ones being an image that many viewers will find themselves recognising even if they are not entirely sure why. It is the creative images and movements that drive the film and even when I was not sure what I was watching, i was still very much held by what I was seeing. It is a dark and nightmarish piece of animation and I enjoyed it very much for that – even if it was not the most comfortable viewing ever.