Extraordinary Tales
- heavy
- intense
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
Heavy, steady, measured horror / animation, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →Five tales by Edgar Allan Poe come to life thanks to a pictorical style animation, five tales that exude madness, pestilence, murder and torture.
Our read · Extraordinary Tales (2015) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive horror · animation · mystery entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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The shape of Extraordinary Tales
What watching it is actually like.
“You want artistic animated Edgar Allan Poe stories full of dread.”
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The reading.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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