Little Suck-a-Thumb (1992)
- Original title
- Little Suck A Thumb
- Directed by
- David Kaplan
- Genre
- horror
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 8 min
- Rating
- 9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A short film that reimagines a classic cautionary tale about a boy who sucks his thumb and a scissorman who punishes him. It uses Freudian ideas to explore the story's darker psychological meanings.
psychoanalyticdarkwhimsicalsurrealcreepyexperimentalstylized
What happens
Little Suck-a-Thumb (1992) is a short film by David Kaplan. The film is a psychoanalytic interpretation of Heinrich Hoffman's Struwwelpeter. It stars Cork Hubbert (The Ballad of the Sad Café), Evelyn Solann, and Jim Hilbert as the Great Tall Scissorman. Little Suck-a-Thumb won awards at the 1992 Chicago Film Festival, the 1992 Cork Film Festival, and the 1993 Grenoble Film Festival. It was also awarded 2nd place at the NYU Tisch School of the Arts annual film festival and was shown as an Official Selection at the 1992 Munich International Festival of Film Schools. It has been used as instructional material for film students. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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