The only thing that attracted me to this initially was it being the feature length debut of the Director (Rob Morgan) of one of the best segments, IMO, from 2014's ABC's of Death Vol II (D is for Deloused). Where in less than 5 minutes he created an unsettling, skin crawling atmosphere with just enough ambiguity to let the imagination connect a few dots.
Unfortunately Stopmotion fails to recreate any of the same highlights and is one of the most tiresome watches Ive had this year to date.
Theres barely a plot to talk about past a paragraph summary, which others have surely outlined, so I wont waste more of you time.
There is nothing in the way of meaningful dialogue or character development, even though there is only 1 main character and barely a handful of supporting roles. The writing is thin at best meaning the viewer has to try and work out what the h ell is going on. And not in a smart way that better films let the viewer figure things out.
The actual stop motion segments lose their novelty just as quickly as there is no real threat or logic behind anything that is going on and so we have no real sense of peril or empathy for our character as we simply have no idea what it is that she is going through.
In the end I spent more time thinking about the ABC segment than I did about whatever it was that was on screen in front of me.
This is a battle to stick with and in the end not worth your time.
3/10.
Unfortunately Stopmotion fails to recreate any of the same highlights and is one of the most tiresome watches Ive had this year to date.
Theres barely a plot to talk about past a paragraph summary, which others have surely outlined, so I wont waste more of you time.
There is nothing in the way of meaningful dialogue or character development, even though there is only 1 main character and barely a handful of supporting roles. The writing is thin at best meaning the viewer has to try and work out what the h ell is going on. And not in a smart way that better films let the viewer figure things out.
The actual stop motion segments lose their novelty just as quickly as there is no real threat or logic behind anything that is going on and so we have no real sense of peril or empathy for our character as we simply have no idea what it is that she is going through.
In the end I spent more time thinking about the ABC segment than I did about whatever it was that was on screen in front of me.
This is a battle to stick with and in the end not worth your time.
3/10.