Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- inventive
- redemptive
- funny
Cosy, breathless, gentle tv-movie / animation, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Susan Murphy (a.k.a. Ginormica) and the Monsters are now working with the US government as special ops. So when an alien presence is detected in Susan's hometown of Modesto, California -- right before Halloween -- the team is dispatched to investigate. Everything appears normal, right down to the jack-o-lanterns peering out from every doorstep and windowsill. But when Halloween arrives, those innocent-looking carved pumpkins reveal themselves for what they really are mutant aliens. The altered pumpkins then start to implement their fiendish plan to take over Earth. The Monsters are there to combat the mutant gourds and try to smash their wicked scheme!
Our read · Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space (2009) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive tv-movie · animation · family entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space
What watching it is actually like.
“You want silly Halloween fun with Monsters vs. Aliens crew fighting mutant pumpkins.”
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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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