The best stop-motion Horror movies show that the unique animation style isn't only suited for comedies or kids' films. The visual style that stop-motion creates can't really be imitated by any other medium. It also lends itself incredibly, incredibly well to horror movies. When done well, there's something unique and uncanny valley-like that makes stop-motion animation unnerving. Directors have been using stop-motion to create scary films since the very dawn of cinema with titles like J. Stuart Blackton's The Haunted Hotel in 1907, and the tradition continues to this day.
One of the great things about stop-motion horror movies is that utilizing animation has also led to some great scary movies for kids. It allows directors to portray the spooky and the sinister in a way that won't traumatize younger viewers. However, at the other end of the scale, there have been some incredibly disturbing stop-motion horror films that are...
One of the great things about stop-motion horror movies is that utilizing animation has also led to some great scary movies for kids. It allows directors to portray the spooky and the sinister in a way that won't traumatize younger viewers. However, at the other end of the scale, there have been some incredibly disturbing stop-motion horror films that are...
- 11/25/2024
- by Arthur Goyaz, Tom Russell
- ScreenRant
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