The film is a compilation of six works by the some of the best animators working today, Blutch, Charles Burns, Marie Caillou, Pierre Di Sciullo, Lorenzo Mattotti, and Richard McGuire, and each one takes an interesting look at creepy stories and fears that effect people. Two of the stories serve as more of an interlude in-between the other four more full stories, with each story being fairly different from another. All in black in white, the first bit we get a piece of is one of the interludes which involves a 18th century dressed man leading a group of four angry and snarling wolves/dogs that he may or may not be deliberate letting loose on to people. The next is the second interlude story which simply a voice over explain the things this woman is scared by in the world over a dance of shapes and animated wander all over the screen. The first full story we get is about a boy who while out adventuring and collecting insects, comes across a strange creature which he loses in his room, and might have re-entered his life years later, when he is a lonely, bookish, loser of sorts, just when things begin to look up for him. The second full story follows a young Japanese girl who has just moved into town and after learning of a Samurai ghost story that took place behind her house her nightmares are the key to solving a gruesome incident. Next we have the story of a man who lives in this town where people are turning up grizzly murdered and his suspicions turn towards a friend that seems to know a bit too much about this supposed monster. Lastly, the film closes on the story of a man wandering in the snow who breaks into a seemingly empty house to get out of the cold, only to be haunted by his dreams and maybe more once inside.
8/10
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