STRANGE TOONS: A LOVECRAFT DREAM

A Lovecraft Dream is an extremely creepy animated short inspired by the nightmares of horror writer H.P. Lovecraft. Leonardo Manna's designs sort of look like drawings from the notebook of a troubled high school kid, but director Michele Botticelli brings them to vivid, squirming, 3D life through computer animation. The effect is extremely disorienting, as we find ourselves pulled deeper and deeper inside a flat, scratchy-pencil world that shouldn't have a deeper to get pulled inside of. Sketchy monsters take on a horrible weight as they rise from a churning, paper sea. All around us we hear the clatter and growl of nameless horrors, unfinished things willing themselves into our world. A Lovecraft Dream is perhaps a little too effective at bringing Lovecraft's fevered imaginings to life.


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