Makes El Topo look like Lassie Come Home. Bobby, an American expat kid in Japan, journeys “to the other side of the mountain” with his buddy Akkun and stumbles across a ruined amusement park where missing children are being transformed into grotesque humanoid robots. Done in an animation style that features hand-pained cutouts and backgrounds and the occasional splash of viscous fluid. I was the only person in the theater on a lovely Saturday afternoon. When I stumbled, blinking, into the sunlight when the movie was over, I was tempted to review my actions to be sure I hadn’t been dosed. Surreal, grim, insanely inventive, bleakly hilarious in its loving riffs on horror and sf tropes, you should either rush to see this or avoid it like a creepy uncle.
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/276157137
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