The Brothers Quay are the brilliant (if divisive) twin directing team who brought the world a string of dark and influential stop-motion shorts and the perplexing features Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life and The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes. Now the pair are set to return with Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, a feature based on the work of writer Bruno Schulz. The Quays previously adapted Schulz's work into the 1986 short Street of Crocodiles.
The clip above features a typically unsettling sequence from Institute Benjamenta. And yes, that is the Borg Queen getting very, very excited about the saplings.
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Who is he, this one who is called "Greg Stacy"?
Greg Stacy began the MONSTERS AND ROCKETS blog in April of 2009. Prior to that, he was editor of the popular sci-fi/horror news website DARKWOLDS.COM. He has also written for LA WEEKLY, OC WEEKLY, UTNE READER and LOS ANGELES CITYBEAT. He always feels weird writing about himself in the third person.
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